BLW breakfast

[DesperateHousewife20]

What do you give your dc for breakfast if you're BLW?

My ds is nearly 9 months, I give him toast and vary what I put on it but am now becoming conscious that Im putting sweet things almost every day on his toast.
I vary between jam and peanut butter and v occasionally give him choc spread, all very thinly spread.

What do other people do for breakfast?

I gave 'porridge cake' a lot. Made a batch of porridge in a pan, then baked in a tin for 20 mins or so. Makes it solid enough to cut into slices to hold.

My 6.5m is another one with toast, he likes cheese spread on his. (not that he eats it, mind. He just sucks it to death and throws it on the floor so far)

When DS was little he had chopped up egg, toast, bagel or pitta, weetabix with a bit of milk so he could pick it up and eat it, cheese sticks, fruit pieces, yoghurt etc. When I had time I'd do pancakes.

For savoury spreads on toast I used to do hummus, cream cheese or mackeral pate (whizz up some cooked smoked mackeral with natural yoghurt or cream cheese)

I did tend to feed him cereal and milk with a spoon aswell and save the BLW for other meals.

Cereals just dampened with milk rather than swimming in it work well too. You can get plain puffed rice and wheat from health food shops or wheetabix goes down well too. Pancakes at weekends. Lot of fruit :)

I would feed him say weetabix with a spoon but he refuses, but fruit is a good idea and fish paste on the toast.

I just really dont want him getting used to having sweet things on toast for breakfast. I might give him fruit or porridge tomo.

I used to cook porridge into solid pieces in the hope he'd sleep at night, it didnt work! But I might do it for breakfast instead.

If you just dunk a baby fist sized chunk of weetabix in milk then it makes it soft enough to eat but they can still pick it up. Bit messy, but it works.

I make porridge like this - equal volumes of Ready Brek and milk mixed up in an old takeaway box, microwave for 2 mins and allow to cool. It ends up a bit sticky but holds together in lumps enough for DD to pick up.

HTH

Thank you :) Ill give the weetabix a go tomo and see if he likes it!

Mini weetabix or oatibix softened with a bit of milk are good. Also solid-ish scrambled egg.

Mini weetabix with fresh fruit.

Bagels, crumpets, muffins or rye bread with superjam (has no sugar) marmite, nut butters etc.

mini wholemeal pancakes that I make in batches and freeze. Just pop a couple under the grill to heat.

Fruit fingers dunked in soya yoghurt.

We did the porridge cake too.

Rice cakes and houmous. I know it's not exactly breakfast stuff but it's a good protein boost in the morning.

mini muffins I've made - carrot and bran, banana etc.

Mashed banana on toast

I can't think f anything else that we tried!

Wow lots of great suggestions, thanks v much. Ill def be trying some of those, Ive got alot of those in the house already.

Be careful - mini shredded wheat are like normal shredded wheat but mini, mini oatibix are coated in sugar. I have no idea why, but just check the packet when you buy.

I was also going to say to be careful with crumpets - the ones that I had last week contained too much salt for DS (7 months)...

Thanks to everyone for all of the useful BLW ideas !

eggs are always good

I gave him weetabix broken into 4 pieces and dunked in milk, it went really soggy really quickly and he didnt really eat it so I gave him some apricot to fill him up.

Porridge is fun but extremely messy! Yogurt - we buy Total Greek Yogurt which is great as it's really thick and sticks to the spoon so she can easily feed herself. Eggy bread is excellent, or scrambled egg or omelette. Soft cheese (goats cheese usually) on toast. Also our LO loves hazelnut butter on toast (Meridan do one with no salt or sugar, it's just ground nuts and palm oil). Banana on toast. Fresh and dried fruit (LO loves prunes but these are rationed or nappy explosion is inevitable!!!) Ok I know fruit is generally sweet but there's no added sugar.
Today LO ate a coupld of table spoons of porridge, half a banana. stick of pineapple and stick of melon.

Sometimes I whisk up an egg, add a splash of milk and pepper, then microwave for 30 seconds, stir and microwave for another 30 seconds. This makes a 'solid' scrambled egg which you can slice up into strips.