What to cook my 6 month old

[247mummsy]

I have a 6 month old DD, we’ve been weaning for 2 weeks now. I’d cooked loads of veg, potatoes, sweet potatoes etc, but she’s not really into any of it and doesn’t seem to like puréed food, unlike my 6 year old who weaned quite easily and enjoyed his food. Unlike 6 years ago there isn’t anything in the shops to help cook your own food ie baby stock cubes, pastes to add to food, so I’m struggling a bit to find something interesting my DD likes, even the app I have doesn’t seem that interesting.
Does anyone have any yummy food their LO enjoys? Please let me know so I can make it.

Just cook without salt give her what you are having, also finger foods. Neither of my children like purées, both happy with baby led weaning.

Mine never really enjoyed my lovingly made purées and annoyingly preferred to eat supermarket pouches of food! Sometimes I managed to get away with mixing in little bits of extra meat and veg. And the only breakfast that ever got eaten was yogurt!

Just chop/shred/mash what you are eating. Mine wouldn't eat baby food jars not puréed home cooked (they would eat the packet baby food you add boiling water to) but they did like shepherds pie etc. Just watch the salt - one stock cube max for a family size, add extra gravy to yours if need be

My 7 month old really enjoys:
Pasta with creamy sauce and broccoli, peas and bacon
Beef burgers (just the meat chopped into chunks - I make them from scratch and then give him a bit of salad on the side)
Lasagne
Toast with peanut butter
Roasted veg
Curry (!)
Sausage hotpot
Egg mayo
Strawberries

I just give him what we are having or a modified version of it really. I always have emergency pouches/jars in case we are having something to specially salty or naughty!

Whatever you're having! Just go easy on salt / stock cubes. DS2s first 'meal was fish pie. Don't worry too much about what goes in at this stage. It's all just fun and learning.

I used to make these sweetcorn fritters for my two when we went out.

1 x small tin of sweetcorn
1 x heaped dessert spoon flour
1 x egg.

Blitz in a food processor (leave it a bit lumpy) and then fry spoonfuls like small pancakes. They're done on one side when small bubbles start appearing on the top.

They're great to take out. Stick baby in a high chair when you go out and have a cup of coffee!

I was really keen for my DD to eat vegetable purée but she hated it at 6 months - she just wanted fruit purée. In the end I just relaxed and gave her fruit purée and she got savoury things by having bits of our food. She’s gone on to be a vegetable lover at age 3, but I was so worried at the time.

You can buy very low salt stock cubes (think by kallo??), boots used to make one in the baby section too but my sure if it's available still.

We've taken it quite easy with DD's weaning. I don't think she's ready to have what we have. She nicked a roast potato off my plate the other night then threw it up, it was probably too rich.

Today she has had two pieces of steamed broccoli for lunch, some pea puree for dinner followed by a strawberry. She doesn't seem that keen on puree either so we are mainly doing baby led.