Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Weaning

Find weaning advice from other Mumsnetters on our Weaning forum. Use our child development calendar for more information.

Original poster

How do you do sauces

13 replies

jetjets · 03/04/2007 21:19

Message withdrawn

OP posts:
kks · 03/04/2007 21:22

Can i ask what BLW means?

bristols · 03/04/2007 21:25

I'm not doing BLW (baby led weaning) but I do give LO lots of finger food. Could you just stew the apple enough so its soft but still formed? Then it could be picked up and eaten.

As for the more sloppy food, you'll have to wait for a proper BLWer to come along with advice on that!

Kelly1978 · 03/04/2007 21:25

I'd go with the pittas, and maybe softly toasted fingers?

bristols · 03/04/2007 21:25

Just realised that 'soft but still formed' does sound a bit like a poo description. I'm so sorry!

ChocolateSucksWithoutSugar · 03/04/2007 21:27

We don't do a lot of sauces (dd is milk intolerant anyway, so the common ones wouldn't work for us regardless of blw), but I make a veg sauce for pasta which I just do thick so that it coats the pasta.

I'd mix your apple and cinnamon with porridge and give it to my dd to eat with her fingers.

Mashed potato can be done with fingers, or turned into potato cakes (recipe on Aitch's blog), or pipe it into little swirls and bake in oven so that they crisp up on outside.

ChocolateSucksWithoutSugar · 03/04/2007 21:29

You could also mix your apple with plain yoghurt and give it with spoon to your dc - messy but fun! My dd is almost 14 months and can feed herself with a spoon now - how old is your dc? Would s/he be able to feed herself if you loaded the spoon first then handed it over - we did this from about 9 or 10 months.

CaptainCanesten · 03/04/2007 21:30

you can bake or microwave the cored apples with cinnamon, they can eat mashed potato with their hands, likewise cauliflower cheese or macaroni. to be honest i never really approached it from the perspective of 'things i could give dd', it was more a case of letting her find a way of eating what dh and i were having.

Original poster
jetjets · 03/04/2007 22:59

Message withdrawn

OP posts:
AitchTwoOh · 03/04/2007 23:04

it's true, jetjets, i've heard loads of people say that BLW nudged them to improve their own diet.

GingGangGooley · 03/04/2007 23:56

My dd loves saucey dinners and mash potato!

I make a very green mash that I call bogey mash ( I add milk and spinach then whisk it) If you do it stiff they can still use their hands.

Also cauliflower cheese and any cheesey pasta works well.,

She did love spag bol too til we found out the tomato makes her face sore

Lots of lovely pictures on my diary

was just checking out the pasta sauce ideas on the other thread for inspiration now we can't use tomato! avocado sounds good

bristols · 04/04/2007 13:46

Jets - I'm sure you're not meant to put poo on your compost heap.... are you? It must be very smelly indeed. Ugh

Original poster
jetjets · 04/04/2007 13:54

Message withdrawn

OP posts:
Original poster
jetjets · 04/04/2007 13:54

Message withdrawn

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page