Does anyone else think BLWing is sometimes a waste of food?

[sweetkitty]

I don't want a hole BLWing/puree debate, FWIW I do both, pretty much at every meal DD3 has some finger foods and puree, I don't puree things that are not in that state already so for example if we are having roast chicker dinner she will have bits of chicken, bits of veg but I will spoon feed her mashed potato and will spoonfeed yoghurt so things that are mush by nature are spoonfed.

Anyway with BLWing there is so much of it that ends up on the floor/highchair/walls/hair/bib well you know what it's like sometimes I am a bit at all the food that is wasted.

I know as she gets better at eating herself more will go in her mouth but most seems to end up in the bin.

Perhaps. But I know when I did all the puree/freezing stuff with dd she never ate as much as I made or defrosted anyway so there will always be waste imo. Have you tried giving less on the highchair tray to begin with? I know if I give my ds pasta then most of it will end up on the floor, but if he only has a few pieces at a time he is more likely to grab them and shove them straight in

I found the less I put on her highchair at a time, the less was wasted. More food was always available, but I only put 2 or 3 chunks on at a time. Any more than that and mine just used to end up playing with it.

Until they actually moved onto proper meals, I also only prepared and cooked what I was going to eat. Then if they ended up eating more than a couple of mouthfuls, and I was still hungry I cold then just have a fruit or something. Much easier than trying to guess quantities.

Sweetkitty - i agree i have to say. With ds2 i did exactly a you are doing and i'm very glad we compost all food waste so it doesn't feel so much like 'waste' IYKWIM?

Do wonder what my African maids would have thought if we'd still been living out there and blwing - can't imagine they would approve of the food wastage

Swings and roundabouts really - whatever form he gets his food in a quantity of it will end up in the bin via the floor either because he's not particularly hungry or doesn't like it. I've found as time goes on (he's 10mo now) far more goes where it should and far less gets flung

I do know that I wasted loads of food making purees for dd2 who just turned her nose up and spat everything out.

I was thinking that yesterday. 'Luckily' DS hovers round the highchair like a labrador and scavenges up the mess that DD leaves behind, soggy toast, squashed banana, chewed broccoli- eeew. A lot of it does miss her mouth, but it can only get better.

Come to think of it, I probably don't need to make him proper meals for the time being

She does only get a few chunks at a time but it's more like takes a bite and oops there it goes, so she needs more chunks.

She loves her savoury purees as well though, I more mash through with a fork rather than blend until smooth so she has a few chunks to deal with.

Banana has got to be the worst though, goes everywhere.

I think the same when Ds1 - 2.4 - turns his nose up at my lovingly prepared delicacies.

I think it's the way it goes when feeding kids, not just BLW

Most of what landed on the floor got put straight back on the tray. I appear to have given birth to a Dyson, mind, so a lot less waste than for some people.

Thing is though, you make x amount of food for the family - if the baby doesn't eat as much, others can have it is it's not pureed.

I put a cloth on the floor so I can scoop up any chunks that get dropped.
Any bits that haven't been thoroughly sucked I eat.

I like to think of BLW as learning through play, rather than getting food into baby. So it's messy play with edible stuff.