June 07 - superheroes, united in the fight against crime, pollution, nastiness ... and the battle of the bulge!

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Love those books. Especially the first one as it tells you exactly what to do week by week.

x post Charlie - yes avoid anything with salt in

charlie, you can buy baby gravy granules.....or just mash things with the cooking juices.

But, yes, salt is a real no no. We never use salt in cooking anyway, so not an issue really. The only thing I cook with salt in is porridge!

NappyNipper - I'll try and have my go but it keeps kicking me out today

charlie, Hipp used to do a "baby gravy", it stank actually. but you're right about proper gravy.

ooh charlie go on just give her a curry takeaway preferably

NappyNipper- success! although you are beating me so convincingly I'm not sure why Im bothering

the hipp organic website has got a poster to help me here but I'm always wary of manufacturers websites as they're probably biased

Baby gravy....urgh!

tbh charlie, the jars are a real rip off. and are totally devoid of taste and texture. good for use out and about though as faylisa said.

good things to start with are carrots, sweet potatoes, parsnips, butternut squash....anything that is naturally sweet. babies taste buds are naturally tuned to sweet as BM (and FM) is very sweet.

I was reading a BLW thread the other day and one woman's DSs first ever food at 6.5 months was beef stew!

Beef stew! Blimey. You are all really helpful - thanks

Thing is that as DD turns 6 months, I go back to work, and I want to wean her...not the nursery. Sounds really selfish reason to start early, but I want to do it MY way....btw, she's showing NO interest atm but seems to be taking a lot less formula milk

i used to have a cow & gate weaning wallchart stuck above my cooker and i consulted it religiously.

I am going to risk an early night,

Oh dear...think Scotland have just lost...DH thumping around and swearing.....

banana is also pretty popular - in fact at one point DD wouldn't eat anything without banana so she had scrambled egg with banana, carrot and banana, .... thankfully she grew out of that phase.

DH's comment when I was feeding DS with a mixture of banana and formula was "so his first food is a banana milkshake then" - he has a point!

I think the pure fruit and veg jars are generally OK, but the Heinz meal ones are rank! We started to eat much better once weaning started.

When you want to introduce some texture I found a potato ricer great (like a large garlic press) for veg and fish.

I'm a bad mother. I gave 'lil robbie' watermelon today. He was in raptures.

off to bed for me too dh is in the pub so hopefully he won't be too late

faylisa we must meet up for that coffee I am in kingston on wed am if you are about.....

Everyone else's children love bananas, but for some reason I don't understand it gave all of mine chronic constipation . Its the best fast food for babies.

possetwiper - yes we must. I am not about much this week unfortunately as I will be at my parents', but definitely very soon.

Off to bed for me as well. How did it get to 9:45? Last time I looked it was 8:30 and I thought I'd just had a quick look at mumsnet.... it's sucked me in again

I've got a potato ricer...but use it to get rid of all the lumps...?

also bought a hand-held blender thingy from Saisbury's last week...£3.97!

Will go to Lakelands this week...we have one in Canterbury

hey mum2robbie....are you still undercover?

dd likes a suck on a bit of apple (which I hold for her, obviously)

Durrr! I am blardy slow!!

I must stop MNetting so much. I've just been talking to DH and referred to myself as Daisy