ideas for baby food for a 6 month old

fabforty

determined_new_ms wrote: »

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

Even so, you really need to involve your daughter in whatever you decide to feed your grandchild, not least so that she can carry it on when she goes home again. It is a big step to take without her mother's involvement - even if there is a degree of 'co-parenting'.


Mine ate what we ate as a family, just finely chopped. Stewed lamb and chicken with vegetables went down well, along with spaghetti bolognese. Also poached salmon with vegetables. This is why I mentioned involving your daughter, as she needs to be able to cook these meals for herself and she can then feed the same to her daughter. If she is unable to prepare simple meals, she will have to resort to ready made baby foods - which is expensive and not necessarily healthy.

Counting_Pennies_2

If your dd has a chaotic lifestyle why not send her home with your homemade versions of Annabel karmels recipes. That way she can store them in her freezer and DGD can be used to eating the same foods in both homes

You might find that she is turning her nose up at your lovely homemade versions because she is used to the processed jars her mum is giving her?

My ds used to love the liver recipe it was very easy to make although I think that one was the 9 month onwards one. I found all Annabel karmel recipes easy to make and freeze good luck

GobbledyGook

To give another option I did finger foods with all of mine. Toast fingers, steamed carrots, roast sweet potato, parsnips and the likes. Thick slices of fruit are great as well. It's all about taste and exploring at that age, the milk still gives everything she needs.

If your daughter's life is chaotic then blw could be a great thing for you both to do as it takes very little effort (and in my experience is less messy and cheaper than jars).

fluffnutter

Squash up what you're having. Amazingly the smaller members of our species are human too and can eat what grown ups eat . The only things to watch for are salt and honey.

If it makes you feel a bit better, milk is a six month old's main source of nutrition. If she turns her nose up at everything you offer her, it doesn't matter provided she's still getting her regular milk.

System

I gave my 5 month old Grandson a tiny taste of home cooking when I had him the other day. A small cooked potato mashed with a couple of slices of carrot. Obviously they weren't cooked in salted water (I don't cook my veggies in salted water anyway) but I did add a few drops of milk out of his bottle.

His Mum just stood there with her mouth wide open as he devoured it. My kids largely ate whatever we had when they were babies but I mashed it up with baby milk.:)

determined_new_ms

Thanks for all your suggestions! Great idea to make up some food in portions for dd to freeze and give dgd

sooty&sweep

My daughter wasn't very keen on puree food she much prefered to have pieces of things that she could pick up.
She didn't get her first tooth until she was 13months old so I made sure things were soft or in bite size pieces.
If she's eating your food watch out for the amount of salt.
Jen

Tanswell88

We did an element of BLW At 6m She would eat pasta, broccoli, cauliflower, carrot sticks (these cold are also good for teething) as well as bananas, strawberrys and other soft fruit and veggies. We then progressed at like 7/8m on to giving her meat and fish.
We also gave her, her food at tea time with us at the table. My LO seemed to enjoy this better then eating purred stuff.

onlyroz

My niece is 18 months and is still eating slop out of a jar from a spoon that mummy holds. Either mum has never heard of baby-lead-weaning, or she's just horrified at the thought of her pristine daughter putting her food bowl on her head, and shoving mashed potato into her ear.