Baby meal ideas (6-18mths)

[Dactylomancy]

Hello

As I am struggling with new meal ideas for my baby (8mths) I thought I would start a thread for meal ideas / recipes for babies 6-18mths.

Yesterday my DD had:

Breakfast-porridge made with 3oz milk with fruit purée
Lunch-scrambled egg&toast fingers
Dinner-beef & sweet potato casserole
Usually no snacks but yesterday caught my eldest daughter giving baby a bit of a cupcake

That's a big age range in baby weaning terms! At 6m my DS was just starting to try little bits of soft cooked veg/fresh fruit and at 17m he eats normal family meals.

Some ideas from that sort of age (I did BLW)
Pasta spirals with cheese and peas
Veg soup with cheese on toast 'dippers'
Very soft cooked chicken and potato stew
Grated apple (just an apple grated with a cheese grater)

My nearly 12 month old will only self feed and I struggle to get him to eat even soft meat/chicken. Best bets for him are:

• fish pie
• mixed bean chilli with rice
• lasagne (meat or veggie)
• sweet potato with salmon
• jacket potato and cheese

Would love more ideas. Camomila how do you soft cook chicken? I am so paranoid it always ends up overcooked and too chewy!

I'm not actually 100% sure My DM always did it for us when we visited her house, she boiled chicken in with potato and veg (carrots, celery and peas) and broth (using a baby stock cube) for ages and then let the liquid evaporate to make a stew consistency. Then i'd pull apart the chicken pieces for DS so they were pulled pork consistency.....(after we took out ds portion we'd add for seasoning otherwise its a bit bland)

Tbh he mainly ate the potato and veg.. he doesnt seem to like meat unless its in pasta sauce.

Both dc just had a little bit if what ever we were having rather than something made especially for them.

Favourites with my 12 month old:
Fishcakes
Tuna pasta
Spaghetti Bolognese
Chicken and apple meatballs (annabel karmel recipe)
Puff pastry pizza topped with veggies and cheese
Cauliflower cheese
Lentil dahl and rice
Sweet potato wedges
Fish pie

For lunch she usually has toast/bread with hummus, cream cheese, tuna etc and tomato, avocado, cucumber.

Pasta spirals, cheese, and salmon (smoked or poached)

Carrot and coriander soup, cauliflower rice, pasta shells

Mashed sweet potato, thin shreds of chicken and broccoli.

Scrambled egg, salmon and toast.

Cheese sandwich (actually was just small bits of cheese and small cubes of bread thrown into a bowl...)

Mashed turnip, cod, cheese

Butternut squash fries, avocado, salmon

Boiled (soft) potatoes, smoked haddock, cheese

I'm planning on making a pot of thick tomato soup (and freeze into little portions) to use as a pasta sauce and to use to moisten meals instead of cheese, eg: cod, potatoes and tomatoes.

Ps baby is 9 months

I find Pinterest to have really good meal ideas

I second bubbly. Just feed them whatever you're eating. Adapt it a little if necessary - e.g. when ours first starting eating we had to do bolognese with the mushrooms and peppers cut into much bigger pieces than normal to ensure they could hold them (we did blw, so they ate everything with their fingers to begin with.

I give them sandwiches as sandwiches if that's what I'm eating for lunch and if they want to they deconstruct them into the separate bits.