ideas for baby food for a 6 month old

determined_new_ms

Thanks for all your replies. It's complicated re her mother (my dd) who is young, low income, very chaotic and not really focusing on dgd. Recently she has been giving her baby porridge and occasionally fruit pouches.

I do have her regularly - from 22nd December we have had her 4 nights, as well as dd & dgd staying over 24th-28th and now we have her for the weekend and will drop her back Sunday. It's likely we'll have her one night in the week (pick up up after work and drop her off before work) and then again for 1 night next weekend. We generally have her a night a week, 1 weekend fully, 2 weekends 1 night and the 4th weekend we have off. In many senses we are co-parenting but obviously we are not the parents! But she has a much more stable homelife when she is with us.

Thanks for the ideas. I will look into the book

determined_new_ms

dizziblonde wrote: »

but they always pull the "what the hell - are you trying to poison me" face with anything new.

That's so funny last night she HATED carrot and swede!

sweaty_betty

We did things like pouches of food and also mashed up veg, fruit etc. We also did an element of baby led weaning, so letting them explore food by trying what we were having, feeding themselves etc. The only thing I'd keep an eye on if you're giving her the same food as you is the salt content. There was a really sad story a few years ago where a baby died of salt poisoning after the parents fed them pur!ed versions of whatever they were having. (Although for us that just meant that we avoided too many processed food and didnt add salt when cooking).

determined_new_ms

I read about that. What a tragic story.

I've given her wheetabix with banana this morning. she ate a little and there are 2 left over pots for tomorrow and Monday.

I'm going to try her on sweet potato later on.

good to know their taste buds are developing so what she doesn't like now she might like next week

gsymoo

Hi, I can recommend the Annabel Karmel books as well, she also has a website with free recipes and ideas.
http://www.annabelkarmel.com/recipes/category/baby-6-9-months

My son loved weetabix and banana, I used to make it up the night before and leave it to soak overnight in the fridge, it was surprising how much milk the stuff could soak up!, and he never seemed to get 'bunged up' with it. I had alot of bags of frozen puree stuff in the freezer, it just worked out a lot cheaper, esp. when they start eating more.

duchy

I'd suggest you do what a mother would do and gradually introduce new tastes and slowly build up rather than bombard her with lots of new things .

onlyroz

You can make up pur!ed veg eg carrot, squash, broccoli etc and freeze them in ice-cube trays - then at meal times defrost a few different cubes. I'd suggest the Annabel Karmel book if you're going to be looking after the child frequently.

hawk30

Current guidelines are not to wean until 6 months, so I would take it slowly. There are some things you are not supposed to give, which include honey, runny eggs, unpeeled grapes, etc. I would suggest pur!ed veg and fruit to start with, some cereal, possibly toast fingers.

sassyblue

We did what roz suggested and froze some purees in ice cube trays, our little one loved sweet potatoes, carrots and parsnips, you can always add a little milk to them.

For puddings you could do mashed pears, stewed apples, bananas mashed with custard.

They don't need a mixture everyday, l used to do the same puree for lunch everyday for a week, then try another taste the next week.

couponqueen123

determined_new_ms wrote: »

I read about that. What a tragic story.

I've given her wheetabix with banana this morning. she ate a little and there are 2 left over pots for tomorrow and Monday.

I'm going to try her on sweet potato later on.

good to know their taste buds are developing so what she doesn't like now she might like next week

hey sounds like your doing a super job and shes just showing nana shes boss;)

i bet if u gave her carrots n swead with gravy on she would wolf it down in our house they loved gravy (home made/kiddyones) with the veg and seemed to wolf it down if i didnt have gravy it was a struggle;) to feed her

also banana mashed on toast my dd liked ,

and as she got older broccoli chicken/duck cooked and tossed in tomato sauce (home made )

have you given her any sweet stuff yet like strawberry etc