freezable home cook baby food

Puggie

Hi guys
I have an 8 month old baby who eats like a horse I'm finding it difficult to keep up with his ever evolving appetite.

I'm not very keen on giving him jarred food so I've been trying to cook and freeze as much as I can for him. Sort of home cooked ready meals if you will (but a lot cheaper and healthier of course)

I've been doing things like chicken dinners, cottage pie and spag bol but I feel like I'm giving him the same thing all the time.

If anyone has any advice or recipes I would be soooooo super greatful.

Thanks xx :blushing:

olgadapolga

Why not give him a bit of what you eat? He doesn't need to have specific meals made just for him - my daughter is 9 months old and just eats what we eat, from scrambled eggs to a roast dinner and everything inbetween. I shudder at the thought of having to prepare special meals for a baby, that must be so time consuming.

Puggie

Hi olga

We generally do at tea time we've been doing baby led weaning, he'll eat anything we give him My husband is at work during the day so when he gets home I'll cook a proper meal.

If we have a pasta or dinner with veggies I'll cook a little extra and put that in the freezer so LO can have it at lunch, which is the time I tend to struggle. I don't really have time to prepare him anything tidy during the day so I end up giving him a jar or something I'm not really happy with.

xx

cutestkids

For lunch give things like
cubed cheese,
sliced banana,
rice cakes,
toast,
pitta,
wraps with something like home made humous a sandwich cut into fingers,
scrambled or boiled eggs
lightly cooked carrot sticks to dip
Home made meatballs.
Strips of chicken
raisins
pear
apple
cherry tomato
pasta bows or shells with grated cheese

stsarina

There are some super recipes on the Annabel Karmel website, well worth a look.

Some of DD's favourites from around that age were fish pie, macaroni cheese (homemade bechamel with cheese melted in), lasagne, very mild chicken curry, chicken in tomato and mascarpone sauce, meatballs, ratatouille...she really tried anything and everything I put in front of her. I used to batch cook once a month then freeze in baby sized portions, all the convenience of a jar but you know exactly what goes into it and how it tastes.

dizsiebubba

Puggie - we do BLW too and all I do is freeze leftovers in little pots and write on them with a sharpie what they are.

For quick and easy meals (not frozen) I do omelette, pasta and pesto, wraps with chicken and lettuce in etc

dizsiebubba

PS there is an MSE weaning FBook group you could join? PM me if you want to be added and I can ask an admin

Miss_Ratty

I bought the Annabel Karmel book second hand from ebay for 99p for my little sis...worth having a look on there or in local charity shops.

flitter

stsarina wrote: »

There are some super recipes on the Annabel Karmel website, well worth a look.

Some of DD's favourites from around that age were fish pie, macaroni cheese (homemade bechamel with cheese melted in), lasagne, very mild chicken curry, chicken in tomato and mascarpone sauce, meatballs, ratatouille...she really tried anything and everything I put in front of her. I used to batch cook once a month then freeze in baby sized portions, all the convenience of a jar but you know exactly what goes into it and how it tastes.

This is what I did when our children were younger. Now our eldest has moved into student accommodation we've done the same in adult sized portions for her whole term. I know she's getting homecooked meals and even if she spends all of her money (which she's close to) she still has enough food to last the term until she comes home. It cost about £250 for her food for the whole term, her housemates have spent over double that and they are mostly eating takeaway and noodles/toast.