Best way to introduce fish?

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5 weeks into weaning with 7 month DS, we've been getting on well with BLW so far, he is eating based on Nappies :) I have given some shredded meat, some meals such as Bolognese and the lentil wedges etc, though we mainly do a few bits of each new food as meals (cucumber and cheese, crumpet and banana etc). I want to bring in fish but I rarely eat or cook it at home (always when eating out!) and when I do it's prawns and scallops etc. What's the best way to give fish? I was thinking of making a little fish cake with potato, but not sure what kind of fish is best. I cook loads but fish is my nemesis :) I have the BLW cookbook but wondered what people have tried and found successful? Can I just let him at a pile of tinned tuna? (in water obviously!)

Share some of yours next time you're out?

Saves cooking it.

I get the frozen salmon fillets from iceland. Snip the end of the packet and microwave for a few mins. DD and I used to share a fillet, now she is three she has a full one to herself.

I think you are over thinking this :)

Chuck him a prawn or two when you are out eating. I'd not share my scallops though.

Tuna sandwich.

If you really feel the need to make fish dishes for him that you don't normally eat at home, I'd think that wasn't what BLW was about, I thought it was for getting babies to eat what you do....If you must you can just poach a bit of white fish in milk, flake and check for bones and pop it on his tray.

Or wait a bit longer till all the salt angst is less and give him the perfect BLW food- the fish finger! Mind you ( lightbulb moment) why not just use a fish finger and take the coating off!

I have photos of the youngest eating mussels in Calais at the age of 1. No one told her they weren't for babies so she loved them!

DD has had tuna mayo from a jacket potato (success, self fed from a spoon), flakes of cod from battered cod when out (poor parenting there), and a fist ful of poached salmon, (which she was horrified by) poached or oven roasted in foil salmon is very easy at home.

Tuna has a lot of mercury. We started with salmon cooked in the oven (covered) then flaked his bit out carefully to check for bones. He loved it and shovelled it in! Still does. If you want someone else to cook it, go out and order fish then share some with him.

That's a good point :) we usually try to do a lunch out together every weekend so I could just chuck him a bit of fish! I never ate fish until I was 20 (very fussy eater back in the day, will eat loads now) so I think in my head I associate it with being 'adult' food and all risky with bones etc. A bit of flaked salmon would be fine!

I want to give him a range of foods at least to try, and if he likes it I'll make an effort to use that more in Cooking. I do like fish, but at home it's chucking prawns in curry and frying squid rings, or basic pasta, lemon, garlic prawns. But he could have a nice mild curried prawn, or suck a squid ring. It's hard at the moment to BLW as my husband commutes so evening meal is after bedtime, and frankly at this point I'd rather cook something for us to eat together, rather than eat with DS and DH eat alone! But weekends are for sharing and DS has had portioned out main meals before I've added the good salt and chilli.

Salmon is very easy. Go to fishmonger in supermarket and ask for one salmon fillet and get them to cut into three and wrap individually so in baby sized portions. Freeze two and cook one. I just bake in oven 20mins for full sized fillet, so less if smaller.

Or if you eat salmon just cook whole one and give him some off then end. I just put in it a bowl tbh with a spoon and spooned a bit and let him pick some up and feed himself

I think I'll try some salmon and we can have it after he's had it. I'm just recovering myself from the absolute obliteration of my appetite that pregnancy caused (coco pops and toast was almost all I could eat without heaving nausea!) and getting back to eating lovely lovely food again! So I want to try more myself too. Now he can sit and watch me cook it's all so much easier.

Fishcakes are perfect for blw. My ds loved fish pie soon as he could use a spoon.
I'm sure there's lots of fishcakes ideas in the BLW cookbook. I think I just mixed salmon with mash and fried.

I sometimes just steam some plaice or cod for my dd and serve it with mashed potato and spinach. She'll eat it on its own or sometimes I add a cheese sauce to it. Or just pop a bit in foil with butter on the top and cook it in the oven.

Thanks for asking this question OP, I was actually wondering about making fish cakes today.

Bought a load of salmon which I baked yesterday, think I will make me and DH fishcakes and DS can maybe try one too. Will mix it with mash and cheese and then fry, what's not to like?

He might like a fish finger