Mince beef and apples.....

[NoTeaForMe]

Hi,

I'm weaning my 6.5 month old at the moment and have a couple of questions!

I wondered how well minced beef purees? I can't imagine it whizzes down well?

I gave her a little bit of apple today and she bit a massive chunk off (she has 2 teeth) which scared me as she was really gagging and wasn't happy about it! Should I be staying away from apples as finger food? Is there anything else she shouldn't have?

On the whole her gagging has got much better, not if only I could convince her that she should hold food and put it in her mouth like she does everything else!!!!

Thanks.

I'd give a whole apple so she can scrape bits off rather then raw slices/pieces. Mince would be better mixed with something e.g. potato to make it smoother.

I've made mince into little burgers that DS (6months) can hold.

I'd stew the apple a bit first to soften it. Personally wouldn't give raw apple to such a young baby, but maybe thats just me!
I mage a bolognese sauce this week and that whizzed down quite well - not to a completely smooth puree, but then if you're giving her finger foods too she should cope with quite lumpy puree.

Bagpuss why wouldn't you give a baby raw apple? Is there something I don't know?

Thanks for your advice will stick to letting her steal bits of ours! Will whizz down the bolognaise then and see how we get on, cottage pie too! Yum!

Thanks

raw apple and also raw carrot can be a choking risk if they manage to get big bits off - you could try grating it too and use it as finger food with less choking risk

Apple is easy to bite big chunks off which they can choke on, so it's better to either give it to them steamed, in tiny slivers, or a whole apple (as they'll scrape bits off then with teeth). Once they are really confident eating finger foods it's ok as sticks/slices.

Minced beef is easy and fun for them to pick up whole - with spaghetti bolognese sauce on if you're brave

Thankyou! No more slices or chunks of apple for my daughter for a while then! She liked scraping bits off the whole apple that my husband was trying to eat the other day! I think he managed to have 2 bites before she swooped in!!

Thanks