Feeding a 9 month old on £12 a week?

Kayalana99

Thought I'd put this challenge to you excellent lot....

I am currently feeding my LO on jars which costs £12 a week I really want to get him off them but I am crap with cooking and knowing what to cook etc, I do have a good book for cooking for kids but their are always 10+ items needed and would be so expensive to follow!

Before people start saying give them what your eating ~ I feel like this would be an unhealthy (perhaps the better word limited) diet.

Whilst he is a little chomper I would like to point out he has no teeth yet...not one!

The only things so far he hasn't liked is ironically porridge and wetabix. Whilst I am willing to try these again with him for the purpose of this challenge I'd rather these not be used. It's not like he is spitting it out, he literally shudders with disgust the moment either of these two touch his tongue!

If it is easier to do over two weeks that is fine, also if I can freeze stuff / batch cook I wouldn't know!! So any extra info re cooking / freezing would be amazing.

Excess stuff:

Flour
Milk (Full and tub milk)
(White) Bread
Cheerios (Not sure if these are that healthy but he gobbles these up and we have two massive boxes to get though...)

pigpen

Breakfasts we have chocolate Weetabix.. the plain ones are quite gross and the amount of sugar in the chocolate ones is 1g more.. my son has diabetes so I am a label reader!
Ready Brek.. porridge oats are disgusting, they are like lumpy wallpaper paste and utterly tasteless.. add fruit puree, honey or lemon curd (gross but mine love it) to make it palatable.
Also toast with egg would suffice.


Lunches we have pasta with fish fingers/dippers or a sandwich with yoghurt and fruit


Dinner mine have whatever we have.. also bland and boring and often very messy but they love it.. everything from roast dinners and mince and mash to lasagne and freezer rubbish.. mine eat anything. You could jaz up what you have with veg.. buy bags of frozen veg and you can use a tiny bit without wasting all the rest.. broccoli, cauliflower, sweetcorn, green beans... it all adds variety and colour to a meal.

I find just taking aside a few spoonfuls of everything does a meal.. what I used to do for mine was wash out those baby jars and refill them with homemade meals, they were perfect size portions for a good while and there was always something ready.. sausages cooked in gravy and veg/potatoes was a firm favourite!!


Just adding... apple and bread are often choked on.. bread glues to the roof of the mouth and makes them gag and apple is just hard to chew yet big chunks break off easily so watch very closely if you give those.. I found baked apple wedges much safer and slightly dry bread much easier to handle.

tiny_courageous

Mine is the same age and he mostly eats what we eat - spag bol, lasagne, cottage pie, sandwiches, pasta, meat and veg. I always do at least 2 or 3 veg as finger foods to accompany whatever he has (roasted peppers, sweet potato, squash, fresh cucumber, tomato etc).
Can your LO pick up food and eat? If so, an easy meal is to do this
Throw some pasta in a pan, cover with water and cook. When nearly cooked, throw in some brocolli and cauliflower, and leave until fully cooked. Drain, and grate some cheese in. I pile that on DS's tray and he scoffs the lot.
Home made hummus is another easy one - you don't have to add tahini so just blend a drained tin of chickpeas, some olive oil and lemon juice, and serve with lots of sticks of veg.

sooty&sweep

Hi
My daughter didn't get her first tooth until she was 13 months old. She was never keen on pureed mashed up food so I just made sure everything was relatively soft and gum able. Its amazing how tough those gums are and how much they can eat.

Jen

Fruball

If I had my chance to wean again, I would use the baby led weaning technique which people I know absolutely swear by. I would also feed a natural 'Paleo/Primal' diet.

With my girls being that bit older, it is harder to switch but we are moving that way, slowly but surely!

gayle1

toast for breakfast is fine most private nurseries offer this or cereal salmon pasta was another favorite served to all ages whizzed up for the younger ones don't be scared to try ure own mashed potato and gravy wee drop carrots on the side is fine 2

pigpen

ooh just a thought.. when making food yourself do not use salt in the cooking.. I know it says it in all the books and stuff but some still forget or say they don't know.. gravy granules are full of salt too so best avoided, you can get baby gravy which is expensive but much lower salt.. tbh I use them so rarely the teaspoon the baby has is not going to do any damage so I don't bother.. but a lot of people use salt without thinking in pasta and boiling veg etc.


It is also better for you to have less salt

Kayalana99

I'm a bit salt obsessed but I wouldn't of known that people put salt in pasta and veg to start with...!!

Some great ideas really need to get my two year old eating better all he bloody wants to eat is toast..!!

I put a slice in for myself this morning and he stood my the toaster going oast oast oast!!!!!! ....I shared.

gayle1

nothing wrong with oast and beans/cheese xxx

gayle1

toast and dippy eggy soldiers

GwylimT

We have always offered our children whatever we are eating, we haven't gone down the route of jars of food, they will pick and choose various things, just offer by putting it on the plate but ignore food left behind, if we push the issue they won't eat it.