Baby led weaning breakfast ideas

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DS3 (10 months nearly 11) is much more independent thinking/strong minded (depending on what mood I'm in...) than his big brothers and will not take breakfast cereal off a spoon-porridge/weetabix/doesn't matter what I try it gets batted away. Has anyone got any good breakfast recipes that would suit my little independent chap. He must be getting bored of toast fingers and banana.

Home made pancakes with chopped up fruit and natural yogurt. Crumpets or bagels.

Omelette. Eggy bread. Savoury muffin type things? Eggy bread is my favourite go to! Scrambled eggs can also be eaten by hand if they are well cooked.

How about something like mini wheats, that he can pick up and snack on?

www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/sainsburys-wholegrain-mini-wheats-500g

Toast, pancakes, omelette, muffins, eggs bread, porridge fingers?

Porridge fingers, any fruit chopped into the right sized pieces, we give ours shredded wheat bitesize soften with milk as he can pick them up easily. I refuse to believe anyone could be bored of toast though!

Weeatabix with milk - but not masses of milk just enough to make it squidgy

Here’s what we are doing at the moment:

Cream cheese and strawberry topped bagels
Banana and peanut butter pinwheels
Fresh fruit salad (raspberries, blueberries, strawbs) with full fat Greek yoghurt
Banana pancakes with yoghurt
No sugar waffles
Frittata
Omelette
Soldiers and toast
Mini weetabix (just a little milk)
Mini shredded wheat
Porridge sticks (really lovely for adults too)

I second porridge fingers, I make them in a plate with a rim, approx equal oats to milk just so they're wet but not runny, microwave for a minute, flip when coolish and serve

Porridge fingers are a bit here and so is scrambled eggs.

Will he feed himself with a loaded spoon? If so, Weetabix and porridge / Ready Brek is good as it stays on the spoon quite well.

You can vary the toast topping. Mine likes soft cheese, mashed avocado, soft boiled egg, ricotta and fruit, peanut butter and banana. Or buttered crumpets? Also I’ve found if he has some fruit to self feed he’ll accept a few spoonfuls of yogurt or porridge in between.

Give him the spoon and let him do it himself surely

Pancakes, omelette, scrambled eggs, fruit, cereals, yogurt etc

Thanks for the ideas everyone. Our big hit this week has been mini shreddies and mini shredded wheat which he can pick up with his fingers.

Porridge fingers were so so but I'll retry these in a few weeks-I liked them!!

Crumpets has the bonus of being hilarious watching him try to figure out the texture.