Help needed with baby dinners!...

[Jan2]

Hi

My 10 month old has been doing well with solids and has a 'proper' meal at lunch time - pureed/mashed mince and veg, chicken and veg or fish and veg which she eats followed by something more snacky for tea like omlette or a sandwich etc. I'm now thinking that I need to be giving her normal non mashed/mixed food at lunch time but the problem is how do I prepare and store this?

At the mo I make up batches of pureed meals and freeze them in portion sizes and then heat them up in the microwave at lunchtime. I'm usually out and about in the mornings and so don't have time to make a hot meal for her fresh every day at lunch time.

I know people say just give them what you have for your evening meal but we never seem to have anything suitable (ie last night we had pizza and tonight we're having quiche etc...) What does everyone else do??...

can you not just freeze the meals before you mash/puree them ?- you might just need bigger tubs

i give quiche to my DS he loves it.

what sort of pizza is it? might be ok? check salt content or are you making it? and quiche should be fine. dd likes quiche.

Pasta is always popular in our house in many guises, esp Jamie Olivers tomato & aubergine pasta with mozzarella from his dinners book. Pesto is great, I recommend waitrose green basil pesto, about £1.25 a jar, much nicer than tescos.

Are you able to freeze portions of stew, bolognese [sp] etc that you could serve with cous cous (also popular here)

I made a fair bit of cheese sauce and froze it and sometimes put it with flaked white fish and sometimes with pasta or with broccoli or cauliflower, I found that quite easy.

Thanks for the ideas!...

Why not just swap it round so that you do light meal at lunch and 'proper' at tea time ?. Its much easier to be out and have a sandwich etc, than worrying about a hot meal.