BLW - what food were you offering to your 8m old?

[klmwong]

Hi,

Having a crisis of confidence here.

We have quietly been blw-ing away (helped by everyone else's queries!!) and yesterday I suddenly thought that maybe I wasn't offering enough choice or offering the right sort of food.

Bubs is 8m old now and she generally gets (in no partic order) cooked carrot fingers, breadsticks, baby rice cakes (hot fave), brocc+cauli, toast, apple, chinese pears, pasta twists. They are all the things I can think of and looking back on the list it doesn't look like much does it? Can anyone tell me what sort of foods you were offering your young un? It'll give me ideas.

Thanks,

MW

I was about the same stage at 8 months, then built up to more "things" in one go eg. pasta and veg to make meals. Now at nearly 10 months he eats pretty much anything, lasagne, sheperds pie, little sandwiches... I mean, the list is pretty endless. Have you checked out Aitchs blog? www.babyledweaning.com

Wanted to add at 6 - 12 months it is really experimenting with food for "fun" rather than nutrition. Just pick various foods from different food groups and just concentrate more of different tastes and textures. xXx

what have you eaten yourself today?

my dd has pretty much what i'm having, unless i'm having something like a ready meal. so today for lunch she had houmous on toast triangles, cheese sticks and grated apple. for tea we're having baked salmon with broccoli and new potatoes (that's one of her favourites) and then she'll have peach and nectarine for pudding.

yesterday she had some bubble and squeak sort of thing i bish bash boshed together, day before she had cheese and tuna on toast. day before that we went out for lunch, she had a teacake and some cucumber and cheese i took with me.

so for example, when you gave her the pasta twists were you having pasta yourself? what sauce did you have with it? could she have had some?

does that help at all?

I'm with Dizzy on this one - whatever I've had, dd has had (or at least been offered).

Roast chicken, roast potatoes and veg if I'm cooking Sunday lunch, chips (done in oven with just a little oil and no salt) with fish fingers if I'm having a comfort food day, beef/veg/lentil/bean casserole, lamb shank and assorted veg, sandwiches, toast (although dd has never seemed keen on this), omelette, boiled eggs, sultanas, peas and sweetcorn (she loves picking these up one by one), biscuits (only occasionally, but she tends to steal them from me if I'm having one!), fish pie, porridge (messy with fingers but she still got plenty in), mini shredded wheat, shreddies.....get the gist?!

The only things I might have had and not offered when dd was 8 months were spaghetti and noodles, not because I minded her eating them for any reason, but just because she would have got too frustrated and not got anything in her mouth.

mine is 7mths, and he eats:

Wholemeal pitta
White and wholemeal toast (sometimes with marmite)
Cheese (LOVES cheese)
Pasta
Roasted courgettes and peppers
Potato
Apples, bananas, pears
Cucumber, celery and raw peppers
Oat and rice cakes
Ready Brek
Parnips
Steak / chicken
Tuna
Ham

As the others say, just offer what you have within reason.

best thing with spaghetti and noodles is to present it in sort of balls. spin it around a fork as you would if you were eating it, then plop the spun ball onto your baby's tray and take the fork out. dd looooves noodles. she picks up the spun ball, shoves it in her mouth and sucks in the straggly ends.

oh that is a good idea, dizzy. i've been missing spaghetti, might put it back on the menu now.
(you could send us that and i could put it up as a naff old Top Tip on the blog? or i could re-print it with your permission?)

yes no problem aitch!

done.

strips of poached (in milk) chicken, pomegranite seeds, satsumas (BIG hit!), asparagus, baby corn, cabbage, potato wedges (left to cool, naturally!) beansprouts, in fact any stir fry, scotch pancakes, potato scones, pita bread, bagels.
If she has pincer grip try peas, sweetcorn or soya beans.

If you arent avoiding eggs I make 1 egg omelettes by frying up whatever veg I have left in a small frying pan and pouring a beaten egg over it, leave until it sets underneath, flip it and leave to cook ohter side, then cut into strips, she has this 2 or 3 times a week as easy protein.

Sunday lunch at Granny's yesterday consisted of beef, chicken (thigh meat - easier for little ones), baby carrots, brocolli, roast potato and yorkshire pud. Everyone was amazed how she just sat there and chomped away - eating even better than her three year old cousin.

Forgot to say, DD is eight months old too.