Hints and tips for weaning (merged)

fiscalfreckles

You can buy "soup pasta" which is very tiny, and easily mixed with tomato sauce, cream cheese or grated cheese. It goes a long way too. Mine used to love this & have loved pasta ever since.

Banana was always my fall back meal. No cooking involved, just mash with a fork. I always had one in my bag!

squashy

Your baby might also like to try a few finger foods are they are great for all the senses, try some well cooked brocolli florets on a tray or sweet potato wedges

poe.tuesday

just please be aware of your baby's salt intake so if you are feeding it the food you eat I would suggest that you don not add any salt to the food until it is on your plate where you can add it just to your meal

dawnybabes

I used to do a sardine special - potato, vegs and a tin of sardines in tom sauce - mush up and serve ! sometimes added cheese and as he got bigger I left more of the veg whole. Cheap and nutricious (sp!)

spendingmad

One my DD used to love is a Mackeral and Sweet potato casserole. Slice peeled sweet potato about 1 cm thick and place in casserole dish add a couple large handfuls of spinach and top with Mackeral fillets (not smoked!!) from fish counter (about £1 for 2 fillets) pour over a can of coconut milk and bake in oven for about 45mins. Sounds arwful but it is a good way of getting oily, strong flavored fish down them as it is quite sweet with the coconut milk

sarahpeck

When my children were young I used to cook extra portions of our dinners and freeze in ice cube trays. I tray of veg, one tray of mash and one of meat. You could then pop out and defrost the ones you needed daily. I used to make enough for 2 weeks. The veg tray I would have say 4 carrot, 4 broccoli and 4 cauliflower (not exact just to get the idea) so there was a choice. Likewise with meat, some pureed chicken, some pureed mince you could make it up how ever you like.

emweaver

tanith wrote: »

I would agree just puree up the veg you are having with a little gravy or liqued from cooking the veg and give them that... its better to get them used to lots of bland stuff first before introducing stronger flavours... for puds give pureed fruit or custards or mashed bananas for instance...

theyre not allowed gravy until they are one due to the salt content

emweaver

I used to make up extra meals of what we were having, but only if it was scratch ingredients. Do not use packet sauces that you eat as these are not good for them.

But at 7 months the typical food my dd was eating was roast dinner, spag bolognese, chicken casserole, pasta all pureed. Id cook her up a big batch and freeze them.

Annabell karmel has soom good recipes.

http://www.annabelkarmel.com/recipes

Oh another thing they cant have until their one is honey

tanith

emweaver wrote: »

theyre not allowed gravy until they are one due to the salt content

Of course I meant home made gravy from the meat juices which doesn't have any salt at all unless you add it yourself.... I assume sensible people wouldn't........

fsdss

weaning is a worrying time for some parents, i thought i would share this with you that i received this week at work from our nutritionalist (children) the advice is excellent and not so confusing.

at the bottom of the page it offers a download of weaning booklet which is great.

hope this helps someone

http://www.bliss.org.uk/pagebuild.php?texttype=howbliss_support_feeding_weaning