Hi, posting here hoping for a few more replies!
Just as the title suggests really... Ds is 8 months old and currently has no teeth yet. We started weaning at 6 months and he loves it, but as we've gradually been building up things for him to try and portions, I'm running a bit low on ideas and worried he may not be getting enough or at least not enough variety. We've only just started 3 meals a day and tbh we don't always fit 3 in, depending on naps etc. He breastfeeds and I always feed about 40 mins before food, as advised.
Example of a typical day so far...
Breakfast- toast with butter or peanut butter / croissant or wheatabix or ready brek with fruit puree. Since the hot weather I've been stirring the oats in with natural yoghurt and fruit instead of warming milk up! I tried banana a few times but he either mushes it to nothing or tries to shove too much in at once! I keep trying though.
Dinner is either something that we'd have, but mashed up; lots of veg combinations, pasta in tomatoe and veg sauce with cheese, or with cheese and broccoli, baked potatoes, omelette. Or we do a pouch, like casserole, lamb dinner, fish pie etc.
Lunch is pretty much any combo of the above, depending on what is happening.
About the pouches; I never give any pouch etc that has 'odd' combinations. I'm mostly using pouches to give him a taste of the 'heavier' meals like meat and fish etc because I'm too nervous to make these myself for him; I worry about him choking if he can't break it down enough until some teeth come through... Am I being ridiculous??
We've started giving pasta as whole penne bits instead of blitzing it and the veg etc we are making the mash very lumpy; I've also started cooking them very soft and letting ds eat them with his hands. Mixed results, but we're getting there!
Does this sound OK and has anyone got any suggestions for other bits I can try?!