Higher calorie weaning foods

[annabanana169]

Hi
I've got a 6 month old who was 7 weeks prem, fully bf, and slow weight gain, hovering stoically below the 0.4th centile. We've been advised to start weaning and the paed dietician suggested baby rice. I was just wondering if anyone knew which of the puree type foods you can give early were the highest in calories and whether anyone else was doing what we're trying... to get as many calories in as possible in pureed form!

And to think I'd planned to do BLW... ho hum... any help or links greatly appreciated.
Anna

Avocado. You can still do BLW with a prem baby you know

cheese - melted into mashed potato/root veg. Or in "fingers" if you go ahead with the blw.

Full fat yogurt - my dd loves Yeo Valley - either plain with mashed banana/fruit or flavoured type.

Baby rice is really plain and bland and afaik quite low cal.

Yes you are right re the sale Starlight. I try and avoid all other processed/naturally salty foods though.

My current personal guideline is only to offer to dd2 (8 months) if I would enjoy it myself - I am NOT a fussy eater btw otherwise this strategy would fail. So I avoid baby rice and all jars of "Sunday dinner/Casserole" type meals. In fact most jars in general but that's just a personal opinion.

So easy to open a banana/avocado/ripe pear and slice or mush depending on weaning approach. What could be easier than a nice slice of bread and butter?

Baby rice has fuck all calories.
What is he on about?

Moondog you put it so much more clearly and succintly than I could.

Avocado if they like it.

Marscapone or cream cheese smeared on rice cakes or mixed with them if you are doing purees.

Most of them love carrots but they have zero calories so avoid for now.