10 month old feeding

[Charlie4491]

Morning!

So my 10 month DS has decided that he no longer likes to be spoon fed which has really made things awkward. So far with weaning I’ve always given him breakfast and lunch via a spoon so I know he’s had a complete meal, then allowed him to feed himself at dinner.. since he’s refused the spoon it’s made this really difficult. I’m trying to think of more foods he can have because I feel at the moment we’re going around in circles with similar foods. Whenever I google ideas they all seem to Have such long prep/ cook times and this isn’t really ideal when I’ve already got 2 children running about. So I’m looking for quick, easy and healthy options.

Also his bottles seem to have increased back up to 150mls 4x in the day and once at night, whereas before he had dropped to 1 in the morning and 1 before bed. I’m assuming this is because he isn’t getting what he needs in solid form during the day....

Breakfast: toast, crumpets, bitesize shredded wheat, pikelets, chunks of boiled egg, strips of omelette, reduced sugar Cheerios, potato farls
If you have no family history of allergies, nut products can be fed in small quantities as young as six months. I occasionally gave mine almond or peanut butter on toast as their breakfast protein.

For lunch, protein can include:
Cubes of cheese, cubes of tofu, cooked chickpeas, chunks of cooked chicken, torn up ham, cut up sausages (baked, not grilled as the skin would be too tough), seafood/crab sticks, boiled egg, beans, smoked salmon,
Carbs can be: rice cakes, torn up pitta bread, cooked pasta shapes, baby puffs, blinis with cream cheese, bits of oat cake, torn up tortilla wrap.
I’d also give them a bit of veg and fruit.

What do you and your other children eat? No need to make anything special. They can eat pretty much the same as you.

For breakfast yesterday, mine had porridge (I make it slightly thicker and just put some on his tray and he picks it up) and grapes. Lunch was spaghetti and meatballs (one of those Annabel Karmel meals, I get 3 lunches out of each), plus sliced tomatoes and apple, and dinner was a mild curry and rice with peas. Generally, he eats what we eat (though we are cleaning out the freezer at the moment so lunch can be a bit random). Tonight dinner is fish (baked), wedges and peas, tomorrow is roasted chickpeas and vegetables with hummus in pita, like little vegetarian kebabs.

He'll learn to manipulate the spoon very quickly. There aren't all that many foods where a spoon is essential in any case. When my DS did this I made soup thicker so that he could eat it by dunking bread in. I didn't find a fix for yoghourt but otherwise he managed within a few weeks.