Meal ideas for 7-8 month old

[OliviaL9530]

Hi all!

My little girl is 7.5 months old and she loves food!

She'll have scrambled eggs and toast for breakfast or weetabix with fruit and yogurt made with her formula milk.

We're still in the early days of weaning so need meal ideas! I've no idea where to start.

She'll have broccoli sticks and carrot sticks to much on throughout the day but I really want to make meals for her.

What do you like to eat? Make that, and eat it with her. Enjoy food together.

I just gave DD whatever we were having, I just stopped adding salt etc when cooking and added it once I'd portioned her some out if I thought I needed it.
Some of DD's favourite meals when weaning were spaghetti and meatballs (still the fave), pesto pasta, prawn stir fry, sausages and mash with peas, fish cakes, scrambled egg and toast, blueberry pancakes with fruit.

Offer her some of what you are eating. My kids enjoyed a Sunday dinner (especially the stuffing )

Adapt your food to include her. I found the River Cottage Baby and Toddler book to be good.

I batch cook little meals for our LO for when I can’t be bothered cooking and OH and me end up eating something “unsuitable” for her… Chinese etc!

What we have in the freezer just now are:

Savoury pancakes with various veg in them.
Potato Fritters again with different veg in them.
Little Baby Bolognaise’s (in little pots from eBay)
Chicken/Veg and Potato pie (in old GU pots!)
Steak and Veg pie. - GU pots again.
Cottage Pie. GU…

We also have little apple/fruit crumbles(GU pots)with no sugar in the topping of course, just the butter and flour for the topping.

Generally she just eats what we are eating but some
ideas there for you if they are any good, you could probably make thing from lentils and pulses etc if you are vegan/vege but we are quite traditional eaters so just make what we know really! But it can be so hard to think of little meals.

For breakfast generally she has a variety from below:

Overnight oats soaked in natural yoghurt/some milk and mixed with various fruits mango/berries/banana.
Bits of orange/bananas/pears/peaches to hold onto.
Bits of toast with a little peanut butter/Lemon Curd/marmalade.
Weetabix with a various fruit through it/sometimes yoghurt/sometimes milk.
Bits of dry cereal to sook on and generally throw on the floor!
Baby pancakes/banana/berries in them.
Baby oat cakes with apple/cinnamon.

9 month old eats what we eat without the salt. If it's a chilli or a curry in the slow cooker I portion some out for him before letting ours cook with chillis in for another hour or so.

Favourites are:

• Corn on the cob (he has 8 teeth though which helps!)
• Curry
• Chilli
• Bolognese
• Blueberry pancakes (I just do my usual pancake recipe with no sugar)
• Toast with anything- avocado, humous, cream cheese, peanut butter, banana etc
• Soups
• Salmon and mashed potato with veg
• Tuna pasta

Jacket pot with cheese and beans
Sandwich crusts cut off
Wraps with melted cheese and ham
Mashed roast dinner

Look at Ella's Kitchen cook books I found these helpful for ideas

I like making baby pizza - a slice of bread, blended tomatos, cheese, and any other toppings then chuck on the grill.

Also i made savoury muffins with lots of veg - Organix have recipe and you just freeze most of them

I did lots of savoury muffins and little fritters for lunch but DS mostly are what we ate. He loved a curry at that stage.

Breakfast idea i tried with my DS today was porridge fingers which went down a Treat!!
Well not so much breakfast as I gave him cereal at 7.30 but it was his late morning snack at 10. He loves it! I did mashed strawberry and banana in mine

www.healthylittlefoodies.com/porridge-fingers/

My little boy absolutely loved this. I used to make it in big batches, run it through the blender, tub it up and freeze it. Try it, it's so tasty xx www.annabelkarmel.com/recipes/easy-one-pot-chicken/