Is this ok?

[roxy12]

my little boy is 7 months old.

What food can i give him for his lunch or dinner (enough to fill him up)?

can i cook smily faces and put beans with it and mash it together?

Can i give toast?

Can anyone suggest meals i can do for him?

really struggling.

would be gratefull for suggestions.

I don't know what a smiley face is. Apart from one of these.

Your 7 month old can eat whatever you eat. No added or high salt food, no honey and nothing that he's allergic to but otherwise the world's your oyster.

he should fill up on milk at this stage and just be ind of exploring and playing with food, and eating a little bit.

he can have anything pretty much except honey and whole nuts. you should also avoid processed foods as these can have hidden salt in them. too much salt is bad for babies.

The only food to avoid after 6 months is honey until a year old and choking hazards like whole nuts.

However, I wouldn't give a baby that young processed foods like smiley faces and baked beans.

Toast is brilliant though, and sandwiches would be fine too. DS used to really like cream cheese (Philadephia type stuff) with chopped dried apricots when he was that age.

What kind of food do you like to eat? What are your cooking skills like?

DD at that age loved pasta, especially tuna pasta, spaghetti bolgnese etc. Also adored cottage pie, lasagne, noodles, jacket potatoes/wedges, eggs in any form.

Sandwiches, toast, pitta, bagels, chopped up fruit and veg etc. Anything, everything...

I love the idea of a BLW approach, but I'm scared of the choking. Gagging is ok, but she has choked on a couple of occasions now so now she's on purees. How do you manage it?

Sorry for hijacking your thread, OP.

my cooking skills are ok but i dont have a very good blender!

and i take it all this should be blended or can he have it all but just chooped up?

i like a roast dinner, i love my vegetables, stew, cottage pie, lasagne. i just like my food

has a lasagne or things like this got to be cooked fresh or can he have a frozen lasagne for instance?

Nope no blending necessary.

My dd never choked. Choking is very different to gagging. Gagging helps them to learn how to move food that is too big from the back to the front of their mouths. It's a noisy, coughy, spluttery process. Choking is a silent, not breathing situation. The two can be confused.

roxy, you can chop things up into fist sized pieces to make picking them up easier but generally a 7 month old can pick up, bite, chew etc and are quite ingenious in their food handling skills.

You can chop it, or just give it to him and see what he does with it!

I puree-weaned DS but by 7 months he was having mashed/chopped things and some finger foods (sandwiches, rice cakes, bit of fruit and cooked veg etc)

you don't need a blender

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What do you mean by frozen lasagne? Like a ready meal? They're often quite high in salt although I think there are some aimed at children though.

No reason why you can't cook up some meals, cut them into portions and freeze them. Then you're not wasting food and it's economically superior to buying ready made stuff!

Part of the reason dd just ate what we did was the lack of waste. I've never really cooked separately for her unless we're having something she doesn't like.

Roxy, re your question on frozen food, there's no problem with feeding him reheated frozen things (as long as you make sure they've been thoroughly heated of course). I used to put leftovers of things like lasagne and shepherd's pie into single-portion sized containers and freeze them for the baby for nights when we fancied a nice hot curry or something else unsuitable

Frozen lasagne that you've cooked yourself (i.e. not a ready meal)? That's fine!

I used to batch cook most of DS's meals. I'd do a load of curry or whatever, freeze in little pots, then all I had to do was defrost and cook some rice and that was dinner.

i have just given him a few organic baby crisps, i put them on his walker tray and he is really loving it.

messy though

yes regarding the frozen meals i was thinking of ready made but i wont do that i will cook up my own meals and freeze them.

At that age DS loved:

Porridge or fruit toast for breakfast (with mashed up banana or stewed apple);

Cream cheese, ham or humous sandwiches at lunchtime;

Stews, cassaroles, pasta dishes, fish pie, mild chilli, etc etc for dinner

Virtually all soft fruit, youghurts, rice pudding for puddings;

Fruit, cheese, breadsticks, dried apricots, crackers or home made ice lollies for snacks.

Are some babies more susceptible to choking than others?
TBH, since DD choked I have been paranoid about lumps and finger food etc which is not at all helpful.