Giving 7 month old pizza for tea

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Tea time is approaching and dc1 has been asking for pizza. With solids for dc2 we’re pretty much giving him what we have as finger food and he’s doing really well. But pizza, is that ok?

for the record it’s not a takeaway pizza, will be shop bought pizza base with homemade sauce and toppings, probably no meat as we don’t have any in.

The advice these days is for them to try a wide variety of foods (cooked and cook safely for babies of course). If you look at any modern weaning book you’ll find recipes for curries and the like! I did a lot of research into baby led weaning when I was pregnant (it was lockdown and I had a lot of spare time) and honestly I’m so glad we did it! We can now take DS (20 months) to any restaurant and he will try anything. Last week he tried mackerel pâté and ended up stealing my husbands whole dish!

He loves strong flavours as this is what he was weaned on. Of course he was only introduced to these foods once safe to do so and with a reduced salt content and we started slow with individual flavours like broccoli, carrot or potato but very quickly his favourite foods became things like homemade chips dipped in Stilton sauce, butter chicken curry, courgette tagliatelle with strong cheese, baked Camembert, homemade garlic bread, pulled pork in whatever salt free marinade we prepare. His favourite breakfast is huevos rancheros and he adores cheesy eggy bread with a tomato and avocado salsa!

As long as you don’t give them choking hazards like nuts or inappropriately cut foods or things like whole grapes and you follow the rules such as no honey until they are 1 and 1g salt a day until they are one, they can pretty much have anything. The prep is the key.

This. My DD was also weaned on strong flavours and entire pieces of veg and she will eat anything, anywhere. Bland is taking the joy out of food, when fresh and naturally flavoursome food should be enjoyed and appreciated and IMO training their palate needs to start young.

So was mine, at 20 she eats anything.
Food is food is food, diet is different, but there's nothing wrong with them trying most things, (obviously nothing dangerous, or really spicy foods that will be painful for them).
Obsessing over a pizza, which at 7 months will get vaguely gummed and not much swallowed isn't going to lead to a child with a healthy attitude to food.

Probably too salty

I think the difference in opinions here is probably due to out dated ideas on weaning. My mother was horrified when I did BLW with my first, kept asking why I wasn’t giving her baby rice 🤢 and other mush like purées etc.

Modern weaning is much more about introducing your baby to a wide range of flavours and textures from the off to widen their palate, reduce fussiness (hopefully) and reduce allergies by introducing these early on.

Pizza is an ideal finger food, even with shock horror a shop bought base (you might as well just feed them raw sewage 😉) I hope DS is better soon from covid and enjoys his pizza!

I think the difference in opinions here is probably due to out dated ideas on weaning. My mother was horrified when I did BLW

Indeed. My MIL wouldn’t stop going on about adding Farley rusks to LOs bottle… Even if you don’t do BLW, introducing babies to a variety of foods is well known advice now and has been for some time. Anyone on here who hasn’t thought to check for changes in weaning guidance since 1990 and are is stuck in the dark ages, thinking babies digestive systems can only handle plain bland food really shouldn’t be commenting on a thread asking for baby feeding advice.

I do blw with a range of textures I just don't give shop bought sauces or bread because I give various cheeses often and the salt from the two together is too high. Anyone into finger food that you can do loads with- it is really easy (under 10 mins total) to make your own flatbread for pizza with 50/50 natural yoghurt and flour no salt or sugar at all.

But the OP said it was home made sauce so not shop bought. Yes the base was but how much base do you really think a 7 month old is going to get through?

My baby is quite a carb lover but I have no idea what's "normal". As I say though it's not like we do sugar and salt free, just I prioritise the salt in cheese rather than carbs.

I make my boy babified pizza all the time. Slice of bread, blend some tomatoes, chuck some cheese on and maybe cooked chicken if there is any. Grill and it's a super easy lunch!

I hadn't thought of this at 7 months (more like 9 or 10), but as it obviously gets cut into tiny bites I don't see the issue. Yes, even this has a higher salt content than other meals with the bread and the cheese, but once in a while is fine. It's not like he gets that much salt every meal!