holidays & food for 8 months old...

[neshi]

Hi,
We've just booked a week holiday in Maldives. LO is going to be 8 months and I'm really not sure what to feed him the entire week!! Would really like to stay away from jars, although it looks impossible! :(
He's on 3 meals a day already.
Breakfast is easy with baby cereal, fruit is also manageable but any ideas for lunch and dinner? Do you think I'll be able to find decent food to mash in the hotel's buffet?

Also, how harmful do you think a weeks of jar feeding can be?

He'd be fine on jars but you can also try some local food.

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We went to Spain when ds was about 8 months. We took baby rice, ricecakes, baby cereal, fruit pouches, rusks which were a total backup and never eaten, Heinz dinners (the powdered ones) and jars both of which ds refused as he's never liked being spoon fed. We got bread, cheese, ham, yogurt, fruit and our savour - breadsticks from the local supermarket. Ds basically ate rice cakes breadsticks cereal baby rice banana yogurt and toast for week as refused everything else. If it's hot baby might not want to eat either but jars for one week will do no harm. Really hop this helps. Have a good time x

Can you ask the hotel to do some low salt food or to tell you which things on the menu or buffet are salty so your child can avoid them? If it's a buffet there will be some things on it your child can eat anyway - any plain vegetables and fruit, and buffet breakfasts often have yogurt, hard boiled eggs and cheese available as well as toast/bread. You can always take a hand-held mouli or mash things with a fork if needed. Local bakeries are sure to have decent breads and other baked goods that will be suitable. Meat may be tricky if your child can't gum it for long enough and the hotel wont puree it for you, but everything else should be ok if it's not too salty.