10 month old diet ideas

[MotivateMe]

Hi all, we’re doing quite well with eating on the whole just after a few more ideas. Especially when it comes to lunch/ and meat.
Typical breakfasts include:
porridge/ banana/ plain yoghurt/ buttered toast/ scrambled eggs/ avocado

lunch:
toast/ sandwich with cheese or cream cheese/ pasta/ tuna/ variations of left over dinners e.g. mashed potato and cheese and cucumber

dinner:
we try to do a small portion or baby version of what we have so spaghetti Bolognese/ chicken/ fish with potato and some veg like broccoli/ carrots/ stir fry (without the sauce) / pasta and tomato sauce or pasta and cheese…

I give fruit with /after meals and this is usually banana/ apple/ mango or whatever we have in.

I do want to try and give my baby a healthy diet but I do find when we’re stuck for ideas bread is an easy go to same with cheese. Also I might be being a bit OTT here but I am conscious of not wanting to give processed meat. So my husband will by chicken for his sandwiches but I do t want to be giving that chicken to baby. However it sells a hot much to be buying and cooking chicken breastS for lunch?

also am thinking about portion sizes, I’m not too worried but just good to have an idea of how much other people give babies of similar age.

so what do you do? Ideas please 😀

There are many dishes you could try. Cook some brown rice with lentils. Two table spoons of rice with one table spoon of lentils . Red lentils if cooking white rice, green/ brown if brown rice. You can also throw a diced carrot (very small pieces) , roast vegetables in the oven. Pumking, zucchini, sweet potatoes and once cooked mash them with the back of the fork to make it easier. .
Do some tabouleh or couscous. Think about soups and the endless variety you can offer.

You should grasp this time window in which babies-toddlers are open to new food and offer the biggest variety of vegetables you can.
Boil of piece of frozen cod, and add a small piece of butter together with a table spoon of the boiling water so make it more moist. Put a small piece of fish in the oven with a chopped tomatoes and a few olives an da table spoon of extra virgin olive oil.
Boil a small beetroot for at least 40 min so it is very soft. Cut into minuscules pieces with some chickpeas and equally minuscule cucumber.

I am totally with you on avoiding processed meat. I don't get the daily sandwich culture (I am not from UK). Where I am from, you eat proper lunch and dinner, both children and adult. We wean children with both a spoon and baby fork, just load the fork and hand it to baby. We also tend to cook and season the vegetables, not just cut them raw or steamed. Think ratatouille, braised, ....
Cream cheese is versatile however it still belong to industrial cheese. try to use traditional cheese. Slice a few pieces of mozzarella, mix with a few pieces pf tomatoes and a rip some pieces of basil, olive top of top, mix well and introduce your child to the wonders of salads. Use ricotta on bread, and if possible real bread not the supermarket spongy industrial toast.

Just walk into the veggies section of the supermarket and each week try a new vegetable . Yes, a sliced raw red pepper is not bad, but roasted in the oven with olive oil until the skin comes off, that same vegetable is just divine. Or don't cut it, take the top off, remove seeds, mix cooked rice , a bit of cooked meat, and fill the rep pepper and put it in the oven, so the juices of rep pepper blend with the filling.

Some of these might be more time consuming, but isn;t good food worth it? Cooking rice with legumes or a soup or roasting veggies is very quick in prep time.

Your child will of course only eat two table spoons equivalent of these whilst you will eat the bulk of it, but you asked for ideas, and this is what kids eat in France and fussy eaters are extremely rare and no restaurant (unless it is a tourist trap) offers kids menu.

Great ideas thanks. Glad I’m not being ott about processed meats. I think it’s time we invested in a baby fork too. Looking forward to trying some of these. I think it’s the lunch culture here of having something quick and not too much but a good point about a variety.

I am from Monaco, so a French way of eating. Weaning is guided by paediatricians and not left to the influence of internet. There is none of this war between BLW or puree. We are taught to use a spoon for food you , an adult, would usually use a spoon for , so soups (we are big on soups), puree, ... a fork for anything we eat with a fork such as small pieces of pasta, fish, .... and hands, you get it, for anything with eat with hands, so a piece of bread, a piece of fruit... The fork makes it so easy. Stab a piece of kiwi. Easy. Try to pick up a piece of kiwi with fingers or spoon...You will need more than one fork! At nurseries, small babies, eat on their own.

Ultra processed foods, be it processed meats, but also processed snacks... are not recommended. Well, we do not have the snack culture. We don't even have a word for snack. There is the "goûter" when kids sit down to eat something after school. But no adult has snacks. Ever.

If you keep soups in a small container and warm it up with real cheese such as parmiggiano (not the fake parmesan) , and a tablespoon of rice/quinoa .... or the minestrone, small veggies and beans.. Soups are greay because you control thickness. At first very liquid, then dense, then small pieces.
For meat, think small meatball in tomato sauce with peas, a meatloaf - half meat, half veggies - , and fish that tastes of fish and not of fried food. We give mussels and clams around the age of 10 months. It takes 6 minutes for the lunch to be on the table. Biggest pot you have, oil and garlic in the bottom, heat up, drop washed mussels, lid on, 5 minutes and done. I add a dash of white wine in the last minute.

I live in Australia now, and the first years, when organising playdates or sleepover or even dinners, , I would have parents calling ahead asking/telling me about food issues. You would NEVER have a French parent telling you about my child doesn't eat...whatever...or only eats....

IF you are able to avoid the highly processed highly palatable highly addictive processed food including the puffs, crisps, bars, .... chances are your son will enjoy food in all its variety.