New to BLW - What should I be buying?

[JenumGeranium]

My lo is 10 months old now and I have decided that I have had enough of feeding him from jars - he wasnt that fussed anyhow and lunch time is getting to be something I don't look forward too!

What kind of things should I buy when I go shopping later? Can he eat most things?

Weaning seems so long ago now....what did we have regularly? Bananas, bread (very fond of ciabatta), cheese, toast and philadelphia, tomatoes, cucumbers. Berries of every description. Pasta, rice cooked so it clumps, noodles. Brocolli.

Avoid the usual stuff, honey, nuts, raw eggs, shellfish. Apples can be tricky because of the way they break. And cut grapes in half.

DD1 (who I didn't BLW) had omelette cut in strips for the first meal she fed herself. I was very pleased to just sit back and watch.

You shouldn't need to buy anything different.

At his age he can eat mostly anything you do, as long as it's not salty, sugary or too low fat. Also best to avoid honey and nuts.

At that age mine were eating for breakfast things like cornflakes, rice crispies, Weetabix, shreddies, porridge, toast fingers, scrambled egg, fruit, yoghurt.

Lunch would be sandwiches (ham, chicken, cheese, cream cheese, egg mayo, tuna, Marmite), chopped fruit, cheese chunks, breadsticks, beans on toast, scrambled egg (if not had for breakfast), tomatoes, carrot sticks, cucumber, things like that.

Dinner would be whatever we were having - shepherd's pie, roast with potatoes and veg, spag bol, pasta dishes, curry, chilli (not too hot!), jacket potatoes with quiche and salad, most things really.

We don't really do puddings but offer yoghurts, fruit, rice pudding.

Hope that helps.

Thanks guys!

a good idea is to buy a pelican bib, one with a pouch at the front. tommee tippee do some travel ones that you can roll up. very handy. also, ikea do big fabric type pelican bibs with long sleeves, again very useful if you want to serve up 'wet' food without stripping him.