Snacks and fast dinners

[stargirl1701]

DD is now 12 months and has 6 teeth. We have been using BLW from 6 months. I have 2 queries.

When can she manage raw vegetables? I haven't given her anything raw except cucumber and tomatoes as I understood raw carrot, etc. were a choking hazard. Can she eat raw vegetables for snack now?

I am back at work 2 days. DD is picked up at 5pm and we drive home for around 5.15pm. She eats at 5.30pm. What can I cook for her dinner? All I can think of is an omelette or reheated leftovers. Any other fast dinner ideas?

For fast dinners how about pasta with a quick sauce like Philadelphia or similar stirred in, with frozen peas and sweetcorn. Things on toast - baked beans, scrambled egg etc. Pre-prepared thick soup that can just be microwaved and cooled. Sandwiches?

As for raw veg, having front teeth will help, but I am still nervous of really hard things like carrot, and tend to grate it. Apple doesn't worry me too much anymore.

Pasta and pesto.

You can batch cook cheese sauce and freeze it in ice cube trays. Boil pasta with peas and sweet corn, defrost a couple of cubes and story through.

Beans and cheese on toast.

Vegetable fritters - grate carrot/onion/courgette into a bowl, add egg and flour to a paste, thin to a thick batter with milk and fry into small fritters. Great finger food, I make these for car journeys.

Eggy bread with smoked salmon trimmings.

Those are my top ones! Third baby is now 10 months old, I'm back at work and quick meals are the order of the day round here...

Everything in the universe is a chocking hazard, even toast can ball up half chewed and be inhaled.

My standby quick dinners are;

That filled pasta, like ravioli but thinner pasta. (I spilt a pack in 3 and freeze) boil kettle pour over pasta, by the time the water is cool enough to touch its cooked.
Blob of cream cheese. If you happen to have spring onions or proven peas/ sweet corm etc these can be thrown in.

Scrambled egg

Beans on toast (makes me want to vomit but dd loves it)

Tims of minced beef and onion

Carbonara.

I batch cook and freeze some small portions for DS when we need a speedy dinner. I do soups, stews, enchiladas, meatballs, lasagne and curry. Alternatively I give him a picnic dinner of whatever is in the fridge (yesterday was cheese, small sausages, crusty bread, raisins and quiche). If I have any leftovers I save the, for the following night also.

Fantastic! Thank you. I hadn't thought about freezing white sauce. Many thanks.