people with 8/9/10 month or older children

[Sarah&Braydon]

hey guys can u please tell me wot ur babys usually eat during the day?? as Brayds diet seems so boring

 

[beanie]

Luckily for me Seren has three lunches at nursery where she is eating loads of different things like chicken and veg, tuna mornay, even home made pizza so I try and carry that on. She is younger then B so you could probably be more adventurous then me but I like to give her toast, mashed up veg, different fruits. Faves include cauliflour cheese, carrot sticks etc. Sorry I haven't been much help have I. Does B have food at nursery and do you get a copy of the menus. You could see what foods he really likes and try and make them at home.

 

[Sarah&Braydon]

he will eat anything lol!!
couliflour cheese - how do u do it for a baby, id like to do things likt that cheezy pasta etc more adventurous stuff but not sure wot i can use etc and i feel so guilty he gets same ol boring stuff

 

[beanie]

I just make a general cheese sauce...

1 pint Milk, warmed
4oz Cheddar or Cheshire Cheese, grated
1½oz Plain Flour
1½oz Butter

melt butter in saucepan, add flour and stir for a couple of mins. Add milk and again stir til smooth and thick, then add grated cheese.

I just add cooked cauliflour or broccoli (this is for us to eat) then take a little out and mush it up for Seren. You could use this on pasta too.

 

[Sarah&Braydon]

oh wow thanks hun can u freeze the source and use our milk or baby milk??

also do u through it all in a mixing bowl then mix together n thro in the saucepan? never cooked it before

 

[Dee1985]

Diors typical day

9am weatabix and toast

1pm beans sausages on toast / ravioli on toast
crisps

4pm mash, pie and gravy
yogot, apple or pear

7pm ready break

 

[beanie]

oh wow thanks hun can u freeze the source and use our milk or baby milk??

also do u through it all in a mixing bowl then mix together n thro in the saucepan? never cooked it before

I have never frozen it, but I'm not sure. I just use a saucepan x

 

[Rosebay]

Yes it freezes brilliantly in ice cubes then you can defrost it easily. You can use proper milk but use wholemilk for them at this age, not skimmed or semi-skimmed. I usually use a pint of milk to make it and then freeze it. You can then have cauliflower cheese, cheese and veggies, fish in cheese sauce and cheesy pasta etc. I also made a batch of tomato sauce (recipe below) which I also made in bulk and use the same way. I then have some fish , mince and chicken which has been cooked and frozen and I do a mix and match with veggies and either baby rice, instant baby mash or pasta shapes chopped up. If you make a large portion and freeze it you really don't have to cook that often- probably only once a week although if we have broccoli I might save some for him etc.

Easy Tomato Sauce

I onion
Tin Toms (chopped)
No Salt stock cube (optional)
Herbs (optional)
Garlic (optional)
Skinned Peppers (optional)
Tom puree (optional)

Chop the onion finely and saute in some olive oil or unsalted butter until soft. Add any other ingredients you fancy and then the tin toms and stock cube. Reduce the heat and bubble away until it is nicely blended (10-30 mins).

Tomato can cause reactions so I'd test them first before making loads but it's a useful sauce for putting with everything.

For dinner/tea I made some veggie soup (just veggies boiled in no salt stock cube then roughly pureed leaving some small lumps) which is pretty easy, or he was cauliflower cheese, that kind of thing.

So a lunch might be-

Cottage Pie and Broccoli (cubes of mince cooked and frozen, instant baby mash and brocoli

Spag Bol (mince+ tom sauce + pasta shapes chopped)

Fish in Cheese Sauce with Mash and Brocolli (Fish grilled or put in oven in some foil with some butter and milk at about gas mark 6 for 20 mins then flaked, bones taken out and frozen)

Fishy Pasta (Fish + cheese sauce and or tom sauce + pasta + optional veggie cube)

Chicken Casserole + Rice (chicken casserole blended + cube of veggie soup or other veg + baby rice)

Cheesy Chicken Pasta (chicken + cheese sauce and or tom sauce + pasta + optional veg)

It might look like a lot of work but if you cook say two adult portions and then freeze then that will do you for a month if you see what I mean? I then choose what he's having the night before and defrost in the fridge in his pots- no problem! I've got several baby cookery books and all the recipes seem to be combinations of the same few foods if you see what I mean?

Hope that helps
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[lauramumof2]

Jessica age 2

6oz bottle
breakfast - weetabix or ready brek

10.30 - piece of fruit

12 - sandwich & yogurt

15 more fruit or crisps

18 dinner which usually has tatties with it or some sauce based meal. Yogurt

19.30 bottle


she will have though a pancake if we are out or the occassional biscuit.

 

[Dee1985]

Laura, what is she having in her bottle? normal milk?

 

[Sarah&Braydon]

awww that is great thnanks guys
Rosebay where do u get baby mash from??

 

[Sarah&Braydon]

does anybody know any good websites that will show good recipes for brayds

 

[BubbleB]

bayleys has borin stuff 2
the usual =

5- bottle (formula)
7- fruit puree/ yogurt etc n bottle of squash
9:30- biscuit/fruit
10- bottle (formula)
12- spagetti n toast etc n squash
3- water
5- wteva im havin mashed up lol unless its curry etc
8- bottle of squash/ water n yogurt
10:30- formula n bed lol
n water all thru the night

a gd website -http://members.tripod.com/xilamom-ivil/babyfood/id1.html

luv braiana x

 

[Rosebay]

Baby mash I get from Boots, Hipp do a mash and rosemary that you add formula to- a little goes a long way! I've tried freezing fresh mash but it doesn't work, the defrosted mash has an odd texture and is a bit minging and almost spongy unlike any other vegetable so I reckon that instant or left over mash is best.

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[Sarah&Braydon]

OH WOW DIDNT REALISE THEY DID THAT ILL HAVE A LOOK ON MONDAY THANKS HUN

 

[hearts81]

Hi Sarah, Reece always has toast or Weetabix for brekkie and a jar or food for lunch. Then he has homemade for tea. I make a menu at the begining of a week so I know what i'm gonna cook and on what day. This weeks was:

Mon: Pasta bolognaise (i buy the little pasta bows thingies)
Tue: Scrambled egg
Wed: Cauliflower and broccoli cheese
Thur:Fish cakes with veg
Fri: Cheese and tuna on toast
Sat: Tin of noddy shaped noodles with veg
Sun: Chicken dinner mashed up and yorkshire pudding to suck on

And I've just started giving him puddings. Either jelly, tinned fruit or a rusk.

He has a milk shake sometimes aswell which he loves. Use 200mls babys normal milk, a pot of raspberry yoghurt (whole milk one) and a few slices of tinned peaches. Blend it up and serve in a beaker.

Its gorgeous

 

[Sarah&Braydon]

Fish cakes with veg

is that normal fishcakes we et?

 

[hearts81]

No I just use a tin of tuna, mash it up with taties and a little butter and milk then make it into cakes and shallow fry them gently on each side until brown