ready made baby food

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I've read all about BLW and it all makes sense...but ever since my baby was born I haven't had time to cook properly. Now my DS is 6 months I tried cooking some carrot - and even though I steamed it quickly in the microwave he was still screaming by the time I had prepared it, certainly not in the mood to eat. I don't have much time in the evenings - by the time DS is asleep I have about 2 hours before his next feed to do all housework/eat my dinner/internet etc (he is up at least every 2 hours during the night so I try and get to bed right after the 10.30 feed). And I don't really enjoy cooking at the best of times so certainly it doesn't count as an enjoyable evening activity. My own dinner will most likely be something partially prepared and quick so will be too salty to save (and will be made by my DH so after DS's bedtime).Anyway... a long winded introduction to my question, which is: anybody used shop bought food successfully at 6 months? By successfully I mean it didn't cause you problems later with food refusal? I guess I was thinking purees but are there more BLW foods out there ready-made? Will I just pay later for my laziness...

Easy ready made BLW food:

Rice cakes
Avocado (sliced)
Cooked meat (roll up slices of ham for example, careful of the salt though)
Babybel

I'm sure I'll think of some more in a minute.

Things that went down well with my DD:

Ripe pear slices
Slices of cheese - cheddar, havarti, emmenthal etc
Fingers of soft, crustless bread - plain or spread with humous or cream cheese
Pieces of omelette or scrambled egg
Slithers of fish - DD loves cooked salmon fillet, which I flake for her

little bags of frozen veg to steam in microwave. quicker than prepping and steaming from raw. birds eye do them but so do the supermarket own brands.

ripe mango sliced

bread sticks

recommend learning how to make a big batch of veg soup-really easy and you can freeze with bread to dip in. Boots baby stock cubes

banana

frozen fish fillets poached in milk for a few minutes

frozen peas really good once the've mastered the pincer grip. A good tip I learnt from someone off here is to let them have a few frozen if they're teething

boiled egg with soldiers to dip in

low salt baked beans

Better than the bags of steam veg... buy a bag of frozen mixed veg (tiny cubes of carrot, green beans, sweetcorn and peas) and a little microwave steamer pot from Lakeland- you can just cook a small amount save wasting the rest of the bag.

Hummous on strips of pitta bread

breadsticks

satsuma segments (peeled at first)

plain greek yoghurt with fruit puree added (can buy organix purees)- more for spooning than blw though

Thanks for all the suggestions - microwave steamer really good idea - the steamer bags and pear have been good too!