Dinner Ideas for a 6 Month Old

[CherryBlossom27]

Hi everyone,

Just looking for some ideas and inspiration on dinner ideas as I'd like to give DS whatever we are having, at the moment I'm thinking:

Cottage pie
Spaghetti bolognese
Pork mince chilli
Roast chicken
Pasta bake with tuna and cheese
Roast vegetable pasta in tomato sauce
Macaroni cheese
Broccoli & cauliflower bake

Is tomato purée ok to use in cooking for a baby?

Generally I make everything from scratch apart from spaghetti bolognese sauce as I can't seem to make it taste as nice as the jars, would this be ok to use jars of sauce?

Yes, all of that would be good for a 6month old.

Sounds great for a 6mo. I'm sure jars are ok if it's not a daily thing. I've only made my own spag bol sauce, and maybe it does taste very different from jars. Maybe have a try at these? They are both dead easy to make, takes about 20min max.

From Bill Granger. It's for chicken mince (which is really common in NZ), but I'm sure you can use beef mince
ironchefshellie.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/rigatoni-and-chicken-bolognese.html

Or this one from Nick Coffer
www.netmums.com/family-food/recipes/celebrity-foodie-experts-recipe-collection/mexican-lasagne-my-daddy-cooks

It's for a mexican lasange, but you can use the mince sauce on spaghetti.

How about Fish Pie, Chicken Creole, Beef Casserole, Ratatouille, Tomato & Basil pasta. You can give them anything really apart from honey and salt, well mainly.

One thing I find that helps is to freeze a little bit so that when we're having something she "can't" have like Chicken Madras she's going something that's quick and easy and nice. I just pop it into ice cube trays and then transfer to zip lock bags.

If you have chicken madras, you can give your LO a portion if you stir in cream cheese or yoghurt. I found the only thing that makes DD cry are the ones with a lot of chilli seeds in it. They are very hard to cool with yoghurt. (And that's only a problem with chinese cooking as some of the spicy dishes actually stir fry as much dried chilli as the chicken)!

OneLittleBabyTerror Pulled pork with lots of BBQ sauce is the only thing that DD ever had a problem with - but we had no cooling on it at all.

Ohh I'm feeling hungry now after looking at those links, thank you OneLittleBabyTerror :) I do enjoy cooking, but I've got out of the habit of cooking interesting meals since the arrival of DS, so I've mainly been cooking the meals in my op as they're simple and easy to cook.

Fish pie is a yummy meal, I'll add that to my list, thank you lizzywig

With spices, I think they're all ok, it's dried chilli flakes that seem to heat up a meal which is probably too much for a baby? I like adding fresh chillies to random meals, but I think if I take the seeds out they're not really hot. My taste buds may well be rubbish!

That's a good idea to add yoghurt, I could keep a tub in the fridge and use it when I need. Plus I could put some different fruit purées in for DS as a nice snack/ pudding.