Help with baby food

[hannjocelyn]

Hey, I have a 1 year old baby. But I'm struggling with what to give him as a food.

Trouble is he has been really slow in cutting teeth and only has 2 (front bottom), he's been teething for ages but still no more.

I try to give him a range of different foods but because he can't chew properly I'm struggling to find other stuff to give him and I'm worried he will get bored of the same stuff.

Any ideas?

Babies don't really need teeth to chew; they can gum on things quite easily. My DS will happily eat a whole piece of toast that way and loves gumming on strips of meat. In terms of foods that don't require much chewing, some favourites in this house are:
Baked sweet potato with cheese and sour cream
Lentil dhal (I use a recipe in the Ella's Kitchen cookbook)
Risotto
Orzo pasta cooked quite well - tonight he had it with some kale pesto
Various pies - he had three helpings of chicken pie at the weekend although didn't really eat the pastry
Any kind of curry - DS is a total curry fiend
Homemade soups

Fish/fish cakes/fish pie and peas
Cheesy mash and baked beans
Scrambled egg
Chilli con carne www.netmums.com/recipes/chilli-con-carne-for-kids
Bean burgers
Finger foods like avocado, cubes of cheese, boiled egg

They have all their teeth - they are just under their guns and those gums are rock hard and pretty good at chewing.
Have you tried giving him whatever you are having to eat - large chunks of cooked vegetables, strips of meat, things like roast dinners, mild curries, small sandwiches, hummus with toast fingers to dip in, salmon, baked potato with cheese (just be careful with the skin), omelettes, scrambled eggs.

My 18mo just has what we are having now, he does have lots of teeth but my understanding is it doesn't make a huge difference.
A few of his favourites:
Pastabake
Cottage pie
Chicken strips and sweet pot fries
Fish cakes and veg
Beans on toast
Soup
Mash potato and peas mixed in with faggots
Roast dinner
Toastie and pom bears
Fruit for pudding.
Ds is dairy free too so found it quite hard, I remember feeling like you do.

I agree with pps ; teeth don't matter. DS1 had no teeth until he was one but could manage a whole apple if I breached the peel with a knife to start him off.

After 1yo the guidance on salt is 2g a day, which opens up your options a lot.
Unless you dc literally can't chew- which case I would seek help from your GP, I would share family foods and offer help spooning in things like porridge (oats and full fat milk) and full fat Greek yoghurt.

DD2 is 9 month old and is dairy, soya and coconut allergic. Breakfast is typical fruit wedges of banana, kiwi, strawberry and slightly cooked apple, cereal with toast milk or toast with peanut butter, advacado or dairy free spread. Lunch is often sand which either squished with the filling or the filling separate, with sticks of cucumber and pepper or falafel pitta and homous, scrambled eggs or if we have something with too much salt then she has left over from the night before. Dinner is something like chicken casserole, pasta and tomato sauce, sweet corn frittata and poached egg.