When to start making more interesting meals ie causaroles etc

[milkmummy1]

First of all apologies about spelling of casarouels............!

I started weaning at 6 months and DS has taken to it great. he has a variety of mashed fruit and veg and more recently i have introduced a range of different proteins ie fish, meat and eggs.

what i was wondering is it is time to now start making things a little tastier and exciting for him? i mean the idea is that they get used to what you have and we use garlic and onions adn all that. these receipes you get in the annabel karmlel books etc would you recoomend them? what i dont understand is if you made a big baby casuerole then obviousy he wouldnt have it all at once would you then freeze some of it? what if you are freezing it with cooked meat in it, is it ok to reheat it with the meat when its defrosted?
many thanks

I fed DS pretty much what we ate from about 7-8 months. That includes garlic, onions, mild spices etc. He seems to like it just as much as the Annabel Karmel stuff tbh! The main thing to be careful with is salt (don't use stock cubes or add lots of bacon etc until they are a bit older).

I do make ahead and freeze in big icecubes (Ikea do some great chunky icecube makers that hold about 4 tablespoons per cube). And it's fine to freeze, defrost and reheat once. The main thing is not to keep defrosting and reheating.