Weaning advice

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My DD is 7 and a half months and so far weaning is going well. We are doing a mix of BLW and mashed foods, she's brilliant at feeding herself and she eats everything we put in front of her. She is currently unable to feed herself with a spoon/fork.
I am just finding it difficult to give her variety of different foods at meal times. We give her steamed veg e.g broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, have made her scrambled eggs, omelette, pancakes, mashed potato. But I feel like we're giving her the same thing all the time. Is this ok for this age until she becomes better at chewing/mashing foods in her mouth?
A lot of people have said feed them what you eat but then I do worry about salt/fat content at this age and feel that this is more something we will do after she turns 1. We did try her with homemade chilli once but she wasn't keen, I think it was too many flavours all at once.

Any advice welcome

I love the book How to wean your baby by Charlotte Sterling. It was basically my bible in the early stages of weaning. The What Mummy Makes books are also great for inspiration.

DD is coming up 11mths and mostly eats what we eat. We switched to no salt stock cubes, and mostly season our food at the table these days. I batch cook things like baby friendly sausages, fishcakes, egg bites, muffins, pasta sauce etc. for quick and easy meals on the rare nights we’re having something she can’t have or if we’re going out for lunch/dinner.

At this stage they get the bulk of their nutrition from milk, so try to have fun with it and don’t fret too much. Also don’t forget it can take up to 10 times for them to like something, so keep at it with things like chilli.

Fat is an important part of the diet. You don’t need low fat food.

What kind of food do you normally eat?

We have a lot of homemade stuff, bolognese, curry, chilli, stir fry. But then we do have stuff out the freezer occasionally when we want a quick meal.

Thank you!

I was giving my daughter tastes of Bolognese etc at that age. Just blitz it up a bit if she doesn't like the texture. Also get an ice cube tray or small ice cube size pots to freeze so on the days you have a freezer meal or takeaway she can have one out the freezer.

You can get baby stock cubes if you want to use those then before serving yourselves can add salt if needs be.

What Mama Makes and the Joe Wicks book have lots of ideas. We do things like potato & veg tots, frittata, veggie muffins, pancakes, soft oaty bars. Mine is nearly 10 months and I'm not feeding him our food yet but batch cooking things from the weaning books.