Baked Beans

[Plum35]

Does anyone know if Gina Ford means use tinned baked beans in her 7 - 8 month weaning menu plan. I thought that tinned baked beans had loads of salt in them? If they are not tinned then does anyone know how to make them?

Ohh don't know, but I'd be interested in the answer.

Gosh - is this an error spotted in her ways? .

You can by beans with low salt content.

Can you? Who makes them?

I think it is Heinz.

Excellent, I will look for them in the supermarket then. Have you used them for your baby(ies?)

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Make your own - much nicer. All others have salt, sugar and or sweeteners in.

Plum the Heize low-salt ones are still very high in salt

and taste ghastly

actually what you want to do when you taste them is add some more SALT...

Oh dear! Maybe I will just ignore Gina's suggestion and make something else instead. Or try the home made recipe of course.

Don't they just pass through anyway ?

To add another angle...

I did a course regarding weaning foods and we were taught that babies will reject foods such as baked beans due to the fact that they are neither solid nor liquid. Apparently babies under a year are not developed enough to deal with both liquid and solid in the same food IYSWIM. They don't know whether to swallow/chew, so tend to gob it out again. The same principle applies to breakfast cereals where pieces of solid float in a liquid. Can't get their little heads around it apparently.

When I was visiting babies being weaned, they all, without exception rejected both baked beans and milky cereals until some time after they turned 1.

I'm a spod

My DS likes pinto or borlotti beans mashed up with some passata. Sort of like refried beans. We use tinned ones in water.

my DS will eat milky cereal at 8 months but he eats it with his hands and picks out the bits! Does that count

No, that's cheating

Have cute image of small boy fishing in his cereal bowl every morning trying to catch the bits. Bet he wonders why you keep putting the milk in.....

That's really interesting CQ. I don't suppose you have any theories about why my 10 mo DS rejects both rice and couscous? It goes in, it comes out again... but he'll eat anything else, even curry.

My DS will eat normal baked beans (only a few spoonfuls from his dad's plate!) and he is 10 months. There is a canned (ewww) version that Heinz do especially for babies that is all pureed down - smells like baked beans and DS loves them. Can't stand baked beans myself though

I buy Sainsbury's own brand beans with lower sugar and salt,although Ds doesn't have them very often.I think HP also do a reduced salt version too.