salad and babies

[missknows]

As I keep reading babies over 6 months can eat anything it has got me wondering- what about salad?

With lasagne and jacket potato and things I understand but I'm not good with eating 'traditional' veg (broccoli, cabbage etc). We tend to eat a lot of salad type stuff ( lettuce, raw red onion, tomatoes, coleslaw, sweet corn). Would a baby really eat that?

She is currently only 5.5 months but planning ahead. I'm currently pureeing parsnip, sweet potato etc and putting in ice cube trays as I'd never eat this stuff day to day.

DD did. We didn't do any purées so she just had bits of what we were having.

We now have to eat corn on the cob first because she demands ours as soon as she finishes her own. I think she'd eat it for every meal! We started with roasted butternut squash fingers as we were having a roast that day.

You need back teeth to be able to chew lettuce, raw carrot and cabbage, so there is no point giving these to a weaning baby. Lettuce is particularly easy to choke on. Tomatoes and cucumber can be gummed if you peel them. Avocado is a great weaning food. Sweetcorn is ok as far as I remember (youngest dd is 2.5), but unless they have back teeth it will just pass through them undigested, so it's a bit pointless.
HTH

tomatoes and sweet corn are both very popular here. lettuce not so much.

Thank you. All very helpful. I did wonder how exactly it would be possible to eat some of it.

sliced tomatoes and cucumber cut into batons are very popular with DD2 (7 month). These are actually eaten too whereas other sald stuff just get dropped on the floor!

Baby food doesn't have to be traditional British food though. Omelette strips are very good are easy to cook along side something you are having. DD2 love daal and quinoa aswell which doesn't feel too heavy but still have a far amount protein in it. If in doubt I usually offer DD2 a some soft fruit (e.g. nectarine) and a bowl of natural yoghurt for pudding if I have massively misjudged what she is capable of eating!

The river cottage baby and toddler cookbook is good for seasonal ideas.