What to feed a 7 month old !?

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So I’ve weaned a child before and cooked everything from scratch but it’s hard to find the time second time around, especially with a baby who is never happy and cry’s a lot.

I want to batch cook but i find the recipes need such small amounts of things, like they need like 1 spoon full of something etc and it’s so wasteful because it’s things I won’t reuse, like cottage cheese etc, I can’t buy all the individual ingredients, it ends up being a waste, I just need some simple meal ideas and ideally some we could all eat.

what the rest of the family eats would be too salty or not right texture etc, I just don’t know what to give my baby. Does any one have any good resources or ideas ?

Freeze in ice cube trays. They can have leftover pureed veg, leave out salt.

Can you add the salt to the rest of the families food last, and take out babies portion before you add it? Or even just a couple of components of the meal the rest of you are having. (Eg. If your having some vegetables on the side, do extra of that for baby). My second also had a lot of toast fingers, cut up fruit and cheese slices at that age, as an easy fall back option. They still get most of their nutrition from milk at this stage anyway, so as long as they'rehaving something to get use to eating, it's fine.

I make bolognese with lots of diced veg and remove some portions for baby before adding salt and pepper. Takes about 20 mins to get it simmering. Also chicken casserole (chopped chicken, onions, carrots and parsnips) started in a pan and finished in the oven for an hour before separating baby's portions and adding bisto to the rest.

Ella's Kitchen website has some good baby recipes but I just use a full pack of mince or whatever and scale everything else up. Full of Beans Pork goes down well in this house but we find it's nicer without the cloves.

If we're having something like salmon or chicken, potatoes and veg I just mash some up for baby.

Muffin tins are good for freezing bigger portions

I downloaded an app called Baby Led Weaning Cookbook and I have used it ever since my LO turned 6 months, there's a million (not literally!) recipes in there segmented into breakfast/lunch/dinner/snack etc and you can also filter by "freezable", I batch cook 1-2 weeks worth of meals in advance and freeze them, it also tells you how long each thing makes to cook so you can pick 5-15 minute recipes or more elaborate. The recipes are delicious and just require basic ingredients. My one year old is such a wonderful eater and now eats absolutely everything! 😂

We just didn’t add salt when cooking and then gave whatever we were feeding as either spoon or finger food.

we didn’t do special baby food.

My 7 almost 8 month old usually has:

Breakfast - weetabix or porridge usually, maybe a bit of yoghurt and fruit puree

Lunch - toast with toppings (mashed avocado, cream cheese and grated cucumber, peanut butter, hummus), egg mayo wrap, quesadillas, small sandwiches like tuna mayo

Dinner - anything we are having, we buy low salt stock cubes so they can share our meals. If it’s a bit tricky to manage I might give it a quick blend or mash but he can do most things like rice/pasta now. Tonight he’s having slow cooked beef with Yorkshire pudding and roast potatoes

Just feed them what you are having and add salt at the table instead of during cooking, you soon get used to it.

The Babyled Weaning Cookbook might be good for you as the whole family can eat the meals.