What did your 7-10 month old DC eat yesterday?

[Vegasgirl]

I am struggling with Stage 2 and producing 3 meals per day I suspect I'm over complicating things and getting myself in a right muddle. I have just spent the last hour trying to cook an Annabel Karmel cod recipe which was disgusting and ended up in the bin and not for the first time.

I don't know why I thought I would suddenly be able to cook just because its baby food. I am hoping seeing others daily menu will help me see how I should go forward. BLW,puree fans and jars I'm interested in them all. Thanks!

TheSnickeringFox I'm reassured by your post that your DS is taking minuscule amounts, I'm trying to BLW with spoon offerings and trying not to sweat and panic when I see spoon feeders shovelling it in!

If I put the spoon too close to DD's mouth she's like what d'ya think you're doing mama??!

anyway she's 7 months and yesterday...

breakfast: yoghurt with blueberry puree, accepted 4 spoons and then I let her mush her hands in the bowl and she sucked it off her fingers! crumpet with butter - sucked all the butter off and wiped the crumpet round the highchair, offered it to the cat and then flung it at the window

late lunch: mushroom risotto, similar to above except it was also mushed into her ears, half an apricot (actually seemed to eat most of it!!), sucked on a tomato and a piece of melon.

BF on demand, anywhere between 7-9 in 24 hours.

dd2 is a week shy of 8mo
7oz formula
little bowl of cornflakes and milk
1/2 slice white toast at toddler group
1/3 ciabatta roll, tuna, few pieces pasta salad, few pieces bean salad, turned her nose up at strips of cucumber, three segments orange
7oz formula
little bowl of lentil and bacon soup, with macaroni cooked into it. three segments of orange
7oz formula
all the above was actually eaten rather than refused or chucked. i spoon some - she prefers using her fingers but gets very cross when she can't get the food in quick enough, so i help out a bit. she's been a good eater from day 1 .

Ds3 was 7 month on Saturday.

No breakfast - we don't do breakfast yet on school days

lunch - buttered toast and grapes

supper - roast chicken, roast potatoes and roast veg

He didn't eat much as he has a cold.

A lot of bf on demand too :)

Yesterday: about 1/8 of a weetabix and yoghurt, 1 sliver pitta bread with marmite, 2 slivers of chicken and half a new potato. All day. Offered much more but all refused bar this.

Today so far: 1 bitesize shredded wheat with 1 slice mango. (large breakfast for him). Lunch was a corner of toast and a bite of plum. Just shovelled all the rest in the bin as on the floor.

It's going to be a long week I think...

Thanks, this is great it is really reassuring to see that not everyone's baby is eating three gourmet meals with pudding that I imagined.

Since I have chilled out DD ate well yesterday, I have also went back down to two meals with snacks for the time being

7.00 6 oz formula

10.30 Ready Brek with formula and a pureed peach

1.00 7 oz formula

4.00 3 spoon fulls of Hipp Spag Bol, then added a bit of cheese and she ate another 2 spoonfuls- but not too fussed. Half a slice of toast with butter and phili cheese. Some pureed fruit and some organics corn/carrot snacks + carrot sticks.

5.00 7 oz milk

8.30 7 oz milk

She is way more keen on feeding herself than spoon feeding and will eat things herself that she wouldn't take off a spoon. It seems like she should have been a BLW baby. I am going to try some meat as finger foods tomorrow- any tips re how to cook them and what size they should be?

When ds was little I would give him strips of meat to gum/suck at. From about 9 months I've given him mince meat either as is or shaped into meatballs or patties.

Dd is almost 9m.

Breakfast: porridge + 2 fromage frais

Lunch: 1/2 sandwich (tuna I think or maybe egg) and 2 yogurts

Dinner : inside of a baked potato with cottage cheese, fruit pureed up, mango sticks

Plus about 20oz formula. She doesn't have snacks. I'd like her to eat more veg but although I offer she rarely obliges!

strips of meat are good so they can hold onto them. Ds also likes lumps of mince.

DS, almost 9 months, had yesterday:

Breakfast: porridge and mashed banana
Lunch: couscous with homemade tomato sauce (frozen in ice cube trays!) and leftover roasted veg (pepper, courgette, cherry tomato) then a Plum fromage frais
Dinner: mini pasta twirls with bolognese sauce, then slices of tinned pear

Today:

Breakfast: porridge with mashed tinned pear left over from yesterday
Lunch: 1 round toast with cream cheese, then Plum fromage frais
Dinner: mini pasta shells with courgette, garlic and parmesan then about six or seven raspberries

Four to five breastfeeds in that time.

Well from the pitiful amounts I mentioned earlier, he had a whole fishfinger, 3 new potatoes with butter and 2 sticks of courgette for tea which must be more than the combined intake over the previous day and a half. He's teething again I think, it must have an impact.

I didn't mention but he's on 4-5 milk feeds/ day also, so not like he's starving.

DS had;

Breakfast - porridge with 1/4 banana and a spoon of nut butter
Lunch - 1 slice of bread with avocado and cheese, yogurt with porridge oats and fruit and a rice cake biscuit thing
Dinner - beef casserole, more yogurt, 1/2 a passion fruit, a rice cake, a bit of kiwi and a couple of mandarin segments.

Plus 3 milk feeds. He normally just has what we have for lunch and dinner, but we were out yesterday so I had to take something that could be eaten cold.

7mo BLW had yesterday:

tiny bit of cauliflower cheese and potato, raspberries (at lunchtime), salmon steak (dinner) and licked a peach with me.

I don't know if he actually swallowed any of it though. Most went on the floor.

DS (8mths), is BLW, has recently discovered the joys of seeing things fall from the highchair...

Breakfast: weetabix, banana, mini apple rice cake
Snack: hummus on rice cake, bit of green capsicum
Lunch: scrambled eggs on toast, plum, sliced tomato
Dinner: pasta with Ellas Kitchen stage 3 Caribbean chicken mix stirred through, yoghurt.

Lots on the floor but he ate more of the pasta than I anticipated and loves yoghurt - we do a kind of factory line of pre-loaded spoons where he gets very agitated if I don't pass the refill fast enough!

ds2 is 6.5 months but well into "stage 2" (born 11 days late and a big lad). yesterday he ate:
breakfast - about 3 dessert spoons ready brek made with whole milk, mashed banana and mango puree. about 1/4 banana in lumps.
lunch - 1/3 stage 2 jar (we were out)
dinner - pasta twists, courgette and red peppers (no idea how much, it was all over the high chair! but nappy also full of courgette this morning so more than i thought). plain fromage frais mixed with srawberry puree.

so apart from the fruit puree, no homemade baby food. i do tend to puree and freeze leftover dinners and some extra veg for lunches but don't make any specific baby food from scratch.

Wow so many creative ideas! We're getting a little repetitive so great getting new ideas. Our 10-month-old DS is a big fruit fan so we try out different fruits each week, but grapes, pears and peaches are old faithfuls.
Morning milk
Breakfast - Ready Brek, 1 pear (he often has 1 Weetabix though)
Snack - A few Organix Tomato, Cheese, Herb puffs, 1/2 plain biscuit
Lunch - Grapes, 1 slice bread with cottage cheese
Snack - Milk
Dinner - More grapes, mashed potato, red lentils with a little green pesto, a few spoons of greek yoghurt
(didn't want bedtime milk)

I find breakfast the most difficult meal to be creative with! Am wondering about trying some mini shredded wheats as DS might be able to pick them up more easily. Also, I worry about him having bread for breakfast and lunch. Daft really as he doesn't eat a full slice at either meal!!

7.5 month old DS.

Breakfast - Baby Banana Porridge (which he ate all of and I made 1 tablespoon of the powder up)

Lunch - Cream cheese sandwiches, cucumber, tomato, pot of baby yoghurt

Dinner - Pasta and sauce, pot of baby yoghurt

Plus 3x8oz bottles of formula

Our 7mo yesterday had...

Breakfast - Breastfeed then baby musilli alternated with apple and plum puree. And some of my hot cross bun.
Mid-morning - Breastfeed.
Lunch - An Ella's kitchen sachet of chicken casserole as we were eating on the hop!
Mid-afternoon - Breastfeed.
Tea - A homemade rusk, sweet potato and carrot puree, followed by left-over apple and plum puree.
Bedtime - Breastfeed

Wow, there are some big eaters out there

DS (7mo) had a molecule of porridge and a lick of toast for breakfast, a couple of chomps of cucumber and a grimace at some omelette for lunch and a chew of 2 green beans for dinner.

Also 3 hourly bf (day and night )

dd 10 months had

breakfast - mini fruit n nut weetabix dry about 3 of them

lunch - was given 1/2 slice toast with butter/marmite, a couple of pieces each of cheese and apple. She ate half of it (literally - she took a bite of each piece)

tea - was at nandos so 2 strips of chicken, half a portion of mashed potato, corn on the cob (about a 1/4 of it) a bit of garlic bread, and a lot of frozen yoghurt.

It was a very good day as often she doesn't really eat tea (though we ate earlier and she adores nandos which helped). She doesn't do snacks on top usually - unless someone else is eating then she demands to try some, though often only a taste as she isn't actually hungry.

She has around 4-5 12oz bottles in 24 hours.

Its only in the last 6 weeks she's eaten any quantity and has begun to cut down on milk. The HV advised us to try her with more calorific food to get her used to filling up on it rather than the milk (which she was having huge quantities of). So she has things like cheesy mash to begin her meal which gets spooned in and then feeds herself the stuff she loves like corn on the cob or peas that have little calorie content. It has made a big difference. Though convincing her to be spoon fed took a while.

E.g for tea I fed her the mash, then she insisted on having tiny bite sized pieces of chicken placed in her mouth (she was in a lazy mood) and then we she had had enough she demanded the corn on the cob (by bouncing up and down shouting and pointing) and knawed on that until she saw the ice cream (which tbf is the only thing she will eat her own body weight in - seriously she eats bigger quantities of it than 6yo ds).

crikey, I didn't think my lo was eating much but it looks like she is.
she's 7 months and on 3 breastfeeds a day (waking up, post lunch and doing to bed)
breakfast - a whole zizzi banana cereal pouch and some of my branflakes
lunch - fish pie (salmon/potato veg) and about 2 tblespoons of lentil bake, plus some of my cheese scone (about 1/4)
tea - half a risotto/cheese/courgette bake thing mixed with some tomato and basil sauce I had defrosted by mistake, then some mixed berries (strawbs - about 2, rasps - about 4, and blueb - about 3)
water from sippy cup also throughout
she ATE all of this
xp

This is all v interesting. Ds is 7 months and had the following
7.30 - about 6 oz milk
9am breakfast of half weetabix mixed with apple, pear and cherry fruit puree
1pm chicken and summer veg puree followed by muller star yoghurt
4.30 - milk about 5oz
6pm - butternut squash in cheese and tomato sauce with pasta stars
7.30 - 5 oz milk

I worry he does not have enough milk, he is really not keen on it at all but I try to give him plenty of dairy.
I am still doing mostly purees with a bit of texture left although he does not seem to mind lumps.
A lot of you seem to be giving them toast and finger foods, i am too scared to even though he is dc3. I find it too stressful watching him thinking he will choke any minute. Perhaps I should give him a go on some toast?