I need sensible advice weaning DD2!

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We are 3 weeks into weaning DD2 (6.5 months) and she is doing wonderfully. To begin with she wasn't very fond of spoon feeding and prefered finger food but now she is getting the hang of both.

However, I am struggling a bit with the number of meals I need to provide and I am finding it all rather stressful. Up until 3 weeks ago I would meal plan every week and it was all very organised. Weaning DD1 was very organised with everything (inculding bread) cooked from stratch and the salt and sugar content of everything carefully examined.

This time it feels like chaos in comparison and I feel like I am having to find a balance between feeding DD1 (3.5 yrs) food she will eat and feeding DD2 food that I feel she should be eating. I think I was a bit neurotic last time and I can't gauge whether I finding a better balance this time or being very neglectful.

My main difficulty comes with bread, breakfast and quick meals when I need to feed DD1 and DD2 together. How much bread is acceptable for a baby to eat? What do you give your babies for breakfast as we haven't introduced breakfast yet but our house is so busy in the morning I am utterly dreading it! Also what quicks meals to you feed your LO? Usually for DD1 this would mean:

wraps, houmous and veg sticks,
beans on toast or,
rice, prawns and peas.

None of which seem very appropriate at 6.5 months. I have tried making my own houmous but DD1 will absolutely not eat it and I am finding it hard to find the time anyway.

Help please and sorry about the essay....

For breakfast I usually did full fat yogurt, often with puréed fruit, or porridge or weetabix. But I don't think I did breakfasts until they were around 8 months.

Tbh I didn't worry about salt in things we all eat, I don't add salt to anything and neither of my dcs liked bread that much, so I didn't think it was an issue.

Quick meals would have been sandwiches, scrambled egg or omelettes, cooked veg sticks, Dahl and rice, cheese on toast, flakes of fish in tomato sauce with mashed potatoes, cauliflower and broccoli cheese, baby pasta shapes in tomato or cheese sauce.

I often cooked batches and froze baby sized portions, it was quick to defrost the little portions. They both liked a lentil and veg pie, like a shepards pie with mash on top, and lamb stew with root veggies. Both could be mashed up.

If it's any help, I was much less organised with dc2, there just wasn't the time. She is less fussy than her brother though.

Firstly stop worrying about more meals . Just offering food once a day at this age is really all she needs. The nhs don't recommend moving to 3 meals until they are between 8 and 9 months.

I'd try to limit bread to at the most every other day. There's no reason though that she can't have the foods you mention dd1 has