What are you feeding your 7 month old

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My baby will only eat fruit or baby jars/pouches everything else goes in the bin.

what are you feeding yours?

He is eating porridge for breakfast so I’m only struggling with dinner

He’s still very little bless him. I would start again. Get rid of the jars and pouches and leave fruit until he is eating properly. I did a combo of finger foods and purées. Sticks of soft cooked veg and some puréed too. Carrots and sweet potatoes might work well if he’s used to sweet stuff.

Faves are:

Strips of steak
All fruit
Cucumber
Steamed carrots
Pulled chicken
Roast potatoes
Sweet potato mash
Mozzarella
Peas

Always had a bit of what were eating or I incorporate the above in to what we are eating so that I'm not cooking stuff that will only be binned x

I've always fed mine what we eat - some regular meals are curry, spag bol, pasta, sausage and mash, homemade pizza. And offer any other little bits of food we have during the day too. Maybe try adding things to the porridge e.g nuts, seeds, cinnamon, so he can experience some new flavours there. But honestly, he's still so little - just keep offering and try not to worry about the amount he is eating, he will get there.

Breakfast he loves Greek Yoghurt and I stir in some fruit purées from the freezer, but will also have weetabix, ready brek, scrambled eggs I mush them up small with a fork, we have done some French toast but he just gags it all up

dinner - loves lentil curries, beef mince Ragu, mash potato with flaked salmon, strips of steak, mashed up veg, toast, avocado, - it can be a mix of whatever I’ve got in the fridge that day!

we are only doing 2 meals at the min

As a bit of balance, my baby chucked steak on the floor every time we offered it (expensive!) and will only now at 11 months eat meat that has been in the slow cooker and is super soft. However baby will go for raw carrot or celery sticks. Like other people say, keep offering a variety of foods.

I think at seven months we did omelette fingers and had more success with that than meat; lentil or corn crackers with fish pate, toast squares with cream cheese, things like that for savoury meals, or else what we were eating but mashed/blended depending on consistency. I think every baby really differs on how soon they will take to tougher food (and it doesn't necessarily match how many teeth they have).

Pretty much whatever we're eating. But she's doesnt actually eat much. She's just exploring tastes and textures.

Don't worry about the amount eaten and just focus on introducing lots of difference foods and let baby go at it.

Last night DD had sweet potato fries, some cucumber and a carrot muffin. This afternoon for lunch she had peanut butter toast and raspberries. She didn't eat even a quarter of it, but she played with, tasted and smooshed everything.

Agree with the poster who said restart.

In my experience the traditional way is the best: Whatever your eating minus spice, salt, sugar, blended up.

Work up from there. Add in sweater pouches later, more spices, more textures etc. But you need to have the base sorted first, that they will eat a blended version of what you are having as their normal food.

If you don't establish that first, its very easy for them to 'choose' sweater and nicer things, and then get fussy and reject the basic healthy purees.

There are lots of trends about eating, but all I've seen from the parents around me is that those who stuck with the traditional time tested approach of pureeing the adults food, and not giving too many sweet + tempting alternatives, ended up with the best results and the least fussy children.

At that stage its all about exploring tastes and textures not so much about volume. My DS preferred finger food to puree at that stage so lots of steamed veg, avocado etc.

We followed this book which was so helpful, great recipes and lots of advice:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wean-Your-Baby-step-step/dp/1785043242

Both of mine were offered what we were eating minus salt and added sugar and in appropriate shapes from six months. One chucked most of it on the floor till 10 months tge other ate little bits of most of it straight away. Porridge fingers (overcooked porridge cut into finger shapes) were a big hit for breakfast.

7 months is no age at all so don’t be worrying about it. Feed what you eat cooked without salt and served appropriately for their stage of development. Use a stick blender to blend some meals. You can control how blended they are and leave some things chunky. Give them steamed veg, hunks of crusty bread with nut butters, avocado, humous, and meat and fish served as per the solid starts app’s recommendations. My son loved (and still does) runny egg yolk spread on toast.