Weaning help/ideas/inspiration

[pinkymum]

Hi ladies,
I started weaning Emily 3 weeks ago, been told to progress quite quickly and now give her mashed up food instead of purees. She'll be 6 months on Sunday. So she'll be able to have most things.
I have to say I enjoyed feeding her but I'm really anxious about not doing it right, or racking my brains trying to think of things to give her. I've resorted to Ella's kitchen pouches a few times. She seems to really enjoy fruit but she's not so sure about veg. I called my HV the other day and she said to mash stuff up, she doesn't actually help me with any ideas and just tells me how wonderful I am and doing a great job. That's lovely but I need more than that.
So does anyone have any ideas on stuff I could start cooking? Things that are quite quick and easy to make as I'm finding I don't have alot of time, or energy especially since she's been waking up multiple times in the night for the last 3 weeks :/

Thanks in advance - I'm losing sleep over this

 

[setdse]

Dylan is blw but if I ever have any mashed potato left I mix it with broccoli carrots or any other veg I cab find.goes down a treat!

Are you offering finger foods via you could give steamed carrot sticks broccoli parsnips sweet potato. Etc etc x

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[setdse]

And don't worry.it sounds like you are doing great x

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[pinkymum]

Thanks hun,
I was going to start finger food next week. Although I cut some banana today into slices and she munched on one and squished them and chucked them off the tray I realised its only been 2 weeks since we've been weaning. I guess I'm not very confident about it yet but I'll get there. She's seems to be enjoying it, I've been giving her the spoon preloaded, she got carrot on her head today, so funny!

 

[setdse]

love messy eating! dylan gets yoghurt up his nose in his ears! Everywhere! youll love it! check out the what my baby eats thread. ill see if i can find a link and you'll be able to see what others are giving babies

 

[setdse]

http://www.pregnancyforum.co.uk/feeding-nutrition/190092-what-did-your-lo-eat-today-tw-blw.html

 

[Lacey's Mummy]

I used to do things like
Corn beef and mash
Chicken and sweet potato
Sweet potato and veg
Chicken and veg
Chicken, veg and sweet potato
Sausage and mash
Sausage, mash and veg

I used to cook big batches of it up and freeze then so it's less hassle and only used to cook for him like twice a month
Hope that helps x x

 

[Lacey's Mummy]

Btw that was all mashed up lol

 

[ZMD]

I used to make lots at a time,
used to do fish pie (just a piece of fish mashed with some potatoe & cheese)
tuna pasta (tiny annabel karmel pasta, chopped tomatoes & tuna)
cheesy pasta
chicken & Veg. Sounds like your doing great Hun x

 

[pinkymum]

Brilliant, thank you ladies! Tried chicken and veg today, she didn't eat much of it but it's early days

X x x x

 

[ZMD]

She'll get there eventually Hun Tegan wasn't bothered by food until she was over 6 months old x

 

[DW1978]

The Annabelle Karmel books are great for ideas x

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