BLW and slippery food

[chloemegjess]

How do you do slippery food? We are not exactly doing blw but just give a bit of everything. DD is as we speak, trying to eat some tinned peaches for breakfast but it keeeps slipping out of her hands. She is 11 months so will eat a good half a tin or so if she can work it out. She seems to be getting the hang of it a bit now, although has peaches all over the florr

i wouldn't give tinnes peaches. have you tried picking one up in your hand? give her fresh peaches if anything.

Fresh peaches are easier as you leave the skin on which gives them somethng to hold that doesn'ty slip.

The other thing we do with slices of mango which don't have the skin on is take a long slice then bite out a bit from the middle on the long side, thereby making a sort of handle. Much easier to keep hold of.

She does usually have fresh fruit, including peaches and mango and this is the first time she has had tinned.

Can I ask why you wouldn't give it? It is one with no added sugar and is in grape juice not syrup or anything.

Its just that the shopping is due and we don't have much fruit left so thought this would be better than nothing as she is constipated so wanted to make sure she had fruit.

tinned's okay, i'm sure she just meant she wouldn't give it cos it's such a bother to pick up, even for an adult, so you're setting her up to fail. maybe make a paste and stick it on a rice cracker?

some people recommend crinkle cutters for slippery food like mango, but i think that nothing could defeat a cling peach in juice.

She managed it in the end anyway, she soon learnt she needed a tight grip and once she realised it tasted really good then she wouldn't drop any of it!

lol

yes sorry just meant you're kinda making it harder for her! fresh peach, skin on. easy. but hey she did it anyway!

oh I see ruddy. I thought you were saying it was bad for her! I wouldn't give her tinned over fresh but it was just the best thing I could find as she usually has cereal, but due to the constipation I wanted her to have some fruit.

Thanks

i agree with cutting/ biting out 'handles'. i used to do this with ds1 for avocado.

Someone on BLW forum recommended a crinkle cutter for slippery foods like peach/courgette/etc an it worked a treat for DS. They even posted a link to where to buy one on Amazon!