8 month old breakfast/lunches

[LGM2023]

Hi,

I'm due back at work next month and my MIL is going to be looking after my daughter once a week. I'm looking for some ideas on breakfast and lunches that are easy for me to prep in advance or easy for her to make. My daughter hasn't taken to weaning particularly well, she only just started swallowing and not spitting everything out! She had had a mix of finger food and blended foods but seems to prefer feeding herself and will only have tiny amounts.

Thanks!

Breakfast:

• Toast with butter or cream cheese cut into fingers
• Omelette cut into strips or scrambled egg that's firm enough to pick up lumps.
• Egg muffins - just mix eggs and veg, pour into muffin cases in a muffin pan and bake till cooked. Can be eaten warm or cold, they freeze and defrost well too,
• Pancakes - DD used to love 'protein pancakes' which were just a mashed banana mixed with an egg and fried in blobs, tasted like banana omelette to me but she liked them.
• eggy bread cut into fingers

Lunch:

• chunks of cheese or slices or sandwich meat, fingers of cucumber/yellow pepper, bread and butter or rice cakes/oatcakes/breadsticks
• leftovers from night before
• sandwich, just 1 slice of bread to make half a sandwich.

Bearing in mind that at 8months - 1 year they don't eat lots, just a few mouth fulls really so portion sizes are small and mainly to practice the process of eating.

Some great suggestions above, just wanted to add a couple more.

A banana is great for breakfast and it's portable and very easy to prepare

Both of mine like Ready Brek and its fortified. When she's got the hang of chewing a bit more you can add in berries, chopped bananas or raisins.

Blueberry pancakes are freezable and the perfect size for tiny hands.

For lunch

One egg omelette cut into strips

Tuna mayo sandwich with veg sticks

Empanadas

Savoury Muffins

My eldest loved porridge at that age. I used to do it with raspberries and blueberries, then stick the leftover mixture in the fridge and make muffins later (or forget about it entirely, but the intention was there!)

Good luck with your return to work.

How have you got on today @LGM2023?

Thanks everyone for your helpful suggestions! Could you cook and slice and omlet the day before, to give it to her cold? I'm guessing I could do this with the pancakes too? Would you suggest cooking things like peppers or her having them raw?

Thanks!

Yes you can cook pancakes and omelette the day before. You can also do a batch of berry pancakes and freeze them in one or twos and get them out the night before.

At 8 months she should be fine with raw pepper

Egg and vege muffins are my go to lunch on the go. They freeze well too so you can bake a batch and take a few out of the freezer when needed.

Vege tots are good too (baked mashed vege with breadcrumbs and cheese) and very easy to eat.

Boiled eggs are an easy high protein breakfast.