broccoli or carrot or sweet potato?

[Liz79]

starting blw today, dd is 6mo exactly. starting in about an hour when dh comes in. Will I offer :

broccoli
carrot
sweet potato

????

would all be boiled.

is it best to leave a couple of days inbetween offering different things? eg 2 days broccoli, 2 days carrot, 2 days pasta? and mix the new food with one that has gone before?

Steaming is better than boiling. Broccoli is probably easiest for them to hold with BLW as it has a built-in handle :-)

The popular theory is that you should offer foods spaced a few days apart, so that if your lo has a reaction then you know what food has caused it. However, in the early days of weaning they're only eating a couple of foods anyway, so it's not like a reaction is going to be impossible to track down So I just gave DS a variety of foods from day 1. No need to mix old food with new.

thanks, I steamed broccoli in the end, she didn't eat any, just licked it. Carrot battons today. Thought half a carrot length cut into quarters?

Carrot gave dd terrible wind. Really big trumps!

She loved sweet potato and butternut squash.

Sweet potato is great. So easy! No washing, peeling, chopping, etc. Just bung it in the oven for 45min, slit the skin and scoop straight out. All of mine were weaned on sweet potato and loved it.

BTW, be warned - carrot on its own stains their bums orange!

DD today produced evidence of tuesday's broccoli.

Spaghetti with juice from tinned tomatoes tonight! (we're having bacon, chilli and garlic in it but think that might be a bit much)