cooking for baby - how do you do it??

[bababeagle]

do you give you baby their main meal at lunchtime? if so, do you keep your own leftovers from night before and reheat for baby at lunchtime or do you cook fresh every lunchtime?

also, what do you give for lunch and tea?

DS eats with us so it's not usually an issue - I do have several pots of dinner leftovers in the freezer though for days when it's not possible/convenient for him to eat with us.

Lunch he has things like sandwiches, pasta, yoghurt, cheese, fruit, sometimes leftovers.

Dinner just whatever we're having - cottage pie, fish and rice, stirfry etc.

You need to get yourself an Annabel Karmel Recipe book. It will tell you all you could possibly need to know. Meal planners, recipes, how much to feed and when. Excellent weaning bibles.

depends which route you're taking to weaning... if you're doing purees you can do the Annabel Karmel thing and batch cook a load of different veggies, puree them and then freeze in ice cube trays so you can mix and match them at each meal (a cube of carrot here, a cube of broccoli there, add some cheese and Bob's you're uncle)

I did that with ds, but with dd was much more lazy busy and did much more baby led weaning, dd mostly had what we had, quite often left overs from the night before as she had her main meal in the evening, but mostly before dh and I had ours. As she was such a rotten sleeper I give her her main meal in the evening (and ds has never really been a lunch time eater) with plenty of protein to help get a good night's sleep (ha!)

If you want to give them the same food as you are eating, The Baby Led Weaning Cookbook is good for simple breakfasts / lunches / dinners.

Sometimes we have leftovers for lunch, sometimes salad, sardines on toast, jacket potatoes, eggs, noodles, soup, pitta, wraps, fruit, whatever really.

I'm not doing purees or BLW - just my way

We do a bit of everything - we batch cook things like mashed veg (we've never done purees) or things from Annabel Karmel and put them in ice-cube trays then freezer bags so we can mix and match portions at dinner time for her. It's all mashed/with lumps and she feeds herself from loaded spoons.

For breakfast she eats weetabix/porridge/toast/fruit or yoghurt, something like that. She'll tend to eat what I'm having at lunch time, if I'm having something like baked potato or veggies, little sandwiches etc. We can't eat dinner all together as DH doesn't get in from work until 6 and DD goes to bed just after he gets in.

Oh, and if we're cooking something for us that's suitable (without chilli or lots of salt, for example) we'll spoon some off and put in little pots for her dinner too.

theborrower what age is ur DD?

I never cooked for the dc.

I cooked for the family and they ate either the same as us (mushed up a bit if necessary) or some leftovers that i'd frozen after a previous meal.

I have my main meal at lunchtime, and so cook for DS and I fresh at lunchtime. We'll have eg stirfry, roast, pasta.

Then in the evening DS will have his supper before DH and I, so I'll make him something light like scrambled egg, or some leftover soup or similar.

I've never made anything specially for ds, just what we're eating or have eaten.

bababeagle - she's just turning 8 months