What's your best BLW recipe?

[LexieH]

Hi there,

I am embarking on BLW for the second time with DS number 2 and just wondered if you would share your best things you've given your little ones please?

Also if yours eat meat/fish - when did you introduce these?

thanks

:)

i didn't have any recipes, my lot just ate what we had, or the parts of it that were suitable.
can't think of anything i made specially for them

The BLW Cookbook by Gill Rapley and Tracey Murkett has some brilliant recipes in that the whole family can eat. My dd loves the thai green curry and pesto in there and my dh likes them too. Little pancakes or drop scones are good for breakfast and can be frozen. The absolute fave in this house is a good old roast dinner though!

Mine loves sweetcorn fritters. Sweetcorn, Sr flour, egg and cheese. Easy to hold and yummy too.

The River cottage baby and toddler cook book is nice although the recipes are rather bland. Yy to roast dinner as pp though!

The big favourite in this house is butternut squash. Roast it whole and then the skin comes off really easily. We usually give some chunks to our DD which she loves and they then get squished and smeared everywhere. Very messy but worth the big smile!

Scrambled egg and cut up toast.
My ds loves this and picks up with his hands.
Mostly whatever we are having , unless it's curry, but he still had the rice.

Great thread. I'm trying this with DS did purées for my DDs but thinking BLW maybe easier and not spending ages spooning dribbled food back in his mouth!

Bouncinbean great advice re butternut squash. I can never get the skin off properly without nearly destroying the squash and panicking my finger may get chopped off too!!

Cinnamon eggy bread with slices of baked apple (peeled)

Baked potato cut into chunks, spread on tuna mayo or beas or grate on cheese and let it melt

Leftover lasagne - it's a bit more solid the next day so easier to cut into chunks for LO to pick up

Pasta ribbons with pesto and whatever you have in e.g. petit pois, broccoli, chicken, salmon, courgette etc.

I shall come back when I think of more :)

I leave the skin on squash - DS can hold on to it more easily and just gums the fibre bit off.