First food ideas please?

[supercherry]

I am planning on weaning my DS next week when he will be 26 weeks. He is sitting unaided for about 10 seconds and has been deserately trying to grab my food for about 2 weeks now so I think he's ready. I am really interested in the BLW idea but I'm also scared about the choking thing. So what do I do? Just make sure things like carrot batons are well- cooked? Can he have things like a piece of toast? And, what about things like porridge- I guess I will have to help him with that? For those of you who did BLW, what were your babies' first foods? Many thanks in advance!

now I bought that in high hopes and found it just as fiddly as AK

but as mentioned before I am l-a-z-y

yes i agree its fiddly

i was a right keeno with weaning though

lazy in other depts mind you

shit I have a completely different view, I think making sure they are as healthy as they can be is the priority. But then I know what it's like to suffer with ill health and allergies.

and have a dd with a weak digestion.

horses for courses - no allergies chez badger but my family have a seriously screwed-up attitude to food / eating / body image

I think they pick this up from what they see not what they eat, think we try harder to fix what the last generation got wrong.

exactly - so I am hoping that the dcs will grow up seeing DH and me being relaxed about food, not (eg) slapping stuff out of their hands shouting 'NO IT WILL MAKE YOU FAT' or, worse, the passive-aggressive 'I am very disappointed, I thought I had taught you better, it must be my fault'

meanwhile, I will clear me and my food neuroses from this thread and hop esupercherry has fun

Well my DS first foods were

Broccoli and Califlour cheese
Baby rice with mashed bananas or pear
And I admit I used jars and packets of powdered food alot too just found it easier as was just getting to grips with cooking and didn't want to subject him to my minging attempts LOL.

Broccoli and cauliflour cheese sounds nice mamadiva. I think I am going to aim for more veggies and savoury food at first in the vain hope that he wont develop too sweet a tooth! Although I can't wait to give him things like juicy peach so I can see his little face. My partner and I had totally different upbringings re: food. My dad was really strict so I will now eat anything and everything, whereas my partner eats utter rubbish- fizzy pop, pork scratchings, sweets and will not eat veggies. Nightmare really, I am really hoping this wont rub off on my DS.

The nutrition aspect isn't actually that important for weaning, though, is it, since they're getting all they need from the milk until they're one. By which point they're off the jars/home-made-mush/chip-shaped-table-scraps and onto eating meals with the family anyway. So we may as start with whatever is easy/fun and make sure the babies enjoy food.

Although I think, as parents, that we take on far too much of the credit/blame for our children's eating habits. Look at all those families with several kids who all get offered the same food and treated the same way but have hugely different attitudes to food.