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Weaning - Finger Food ideas?

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Rainbow714 · 26/02/2021 10:37

We've started weaning our DD over the past couple of weeks, she seems to be taking it well but much preferes finger food to spoon feeding. Id love ideas of options of what to try for breakfast, dinner and tea please... I already feel that im repeating things. Id love her to have porridge or cereal of some kind on a morning so i can up her milk intake but she just gags and pushes the spoon away! She will happily put her fingers in it to play with though 😀

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Nemostripes · 26/02/2021 10:48

Get the book What Mummy Makes. Easy recipes from 6 months for BLW that you can feed the whole family. It's brilliant! I did baby-led and have used it for the last couple of months. My 8-month-old feeds himself everything wonderfully and I definitely credit the approach.

He has things like cream cheese toast (cut into strips for 6 months but mine has pieces now), blueberry and oat muffins (easy recipe from the book), Greek yoghurt with fruit, eggy bread (loads in the book), porridge fingers (basically microwaving oats and milk in a flat Tupperware box into fork fingers), scrambled egg or boiled egg strips, crumpet for breakfast.

Lunch could be avocado and tuna toastie, courgette pinwheels (the book!), tortilla pizza, a variety of pasta dishes I tend to do, cornflake chicken dippers, with cucumber, tomato etc. and sometimes dessert.

Dinner could be beef ragu (10 minute recipe in aforementioned book!), chicken fried rice with chicken cut into strips, roast dinner, Mac and cheese with spinach, usually all served with steamed veg.

He has things like fruit, homemade banana custard, muffins, puréed yog and berries frozen into lollies etc. if I feel like doing dessert.

Honestly, get the book!

Rainbow714 · 26/02/2021 12:34

@Nemostripes thank you so much! Some great ideas, i will look for the book!

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Potterythrowdown · 26/02/2021 13:09

I just gave what we were having for dinner (no salt obviously). Lunch was usually some sort of picky plate so some sticks of veg, fruit, cheese cubes, oatcakes & cream cheese, bread sticks & hummus. I did make savoury muffins which were a hit. Breakfast was either porridge fingers (basically baked porridge cut into slices), toast,fruit, eggy bread, cereal with a bit of milk.

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BoobyBarbara · 26/02/2021 14:17

Fml, I wrote a big long reply and then it just vanished Angry

Abbreviated version:
Pancakes
Spinach fritters
Steak strips
Omlette strips
Sweep potato wedges
Eggy bread
Steamed veg

BunnyRuddington · 26/02/2021 17:19

There are some great suggestions in this guide from the Caroline Walker Trust. I'd just skip the first bit which covers the first 6 months Smile

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