what food can I give?

[MarchPumpkin]

Hi everyone.
I feel a bit lost on what to give my daughter to eat now she is 6months. Well I mean rather than puree food. Amelia is now on 3 meals per day but I've just been using puree food and want to start and introduce thicker, more lumpier food but just don't no what she can or can't have? I have mashed potato, carrot and sprouts for her dinner which she seemed to like just didn't have much as she wasn't sure on the texture but not sure on what else I can make.

Ideas would be appreciated, thank you. X

 

[deedee84]

my DD used to love tinned mince in gravy over mash, that was a firm favourite in our house i guess anything that you can mash up to the consistency that your happy with is good! I cheated a little with DD and bought a lot of jars etc, i think this time i will invest in a hand held mixer and this LO can have what we have

xx

 

[hellywelly]

Yesterday E had baby weetabix with banana and apple for breakfast, scrambled egg on toast for lunch (she is a week or so early to have eggs but I was running out of ideas!) and butternut squash, brocolli and carrot for tea, followed by a baby fromage frais. I have never pureed anything, I just cook and fork mash it and my little girl has been very good with lumps. Today for instance she had rice cakes and a mini babybel for lunch, chopped into appropriate size pieces by me! The Annabel Karmel book has some nice recipes. Hope this gives you some ideas.

 

[MarchPumpkin]

my DD used to love tinned mince in gravy over mash, that was a firm favourite in our house i guess anything that you can mash up to the consistency that your happy with is good! I cheated a little with DD and bought a lot of jars etc, i think this time i will invest in a hand held mixer and this LO can have what we have

xx

Im using jars atm but starting to give mashed up veg aswell. I might seem a bit clueless here, sorry if i am but when can you give our gravy from?

xx

 

[MarchPumpkin]

Yesterday E had baby weetabix with banana and apple for breakfast, scrambled egg on toast for lunch (she is a week or so early to have eggs but I was running out of ideas!) and butternut squash, brocolli and carrot for tea, followed by a baby fromage frais. I have never pureed anything, I just cook and fork mash it and my little girl has been very good with lumps. Today for instance she had rice cakes and a mini babybel for lunch, chopped into appropriate size pieces by me! The Annabel Karmel book has some nice recipes. Hope this gives you some ideas.

Eeeee really? Thats sooo good. I feel a bit down now as ive been using jars as im worried on what i can give and also LO choking!!

Did you just mush the apple and as for the eggs on toast how did u do this? Sorry if im sounding a bit silly??

xx

 

[deedee84]

ahh dont worry about it hun its all new to you, as it was with me the first time, i was clueless then didnt even know baby gravy existed so i just used to give her our gravy...basically anything we had, she had, but just mushed to bits but i think you can get the baby gravy from most supermarkets

xx

 

[hellywelly]

Yeah, my game plan is basically cook or steam everything til soft then attack it with a fork!! Lol. She didn't actually eat the eggs off the toast, she had spoons of scrambled egg and then I chop the toast so she has a finger to hold and wave around (sometimes it even makes it into her mouth!!) and I feed her tiny pieces of toast at the same time which she gums to death before swallowing.

I'm very luck as she seems very comfortable with lumpy food already and is good with chewing and swallowing. The problem is she is so used to having veggies that I have cooked that she is starting to turn her nose up at jars which I don't want as sometimes they are a god send when you are knackered and want something quick, or when you are on the go. She certainly didn't think Hipp Organics 'Scrumptious Sunday Lunch' was very scrumptious today!!

I'm going to try spaghetti on toast tomorrow - have bought low sugar and salt kiddie hoops which I will again mush up a bit with a fork. I think I just got so bored with her eating the same thing I needed a change, whether she liked it or not!!

 

[MarchPumpkin]

Yeah, my game plan is basically cook or steam everything til soft then attack it with a fork!! Lol. She didn't actually eat the eggs off the toast, she had spoons of scrambled egg and then I chop the toast so she has a finger to hold and wave around (sometimes it even makes it into her mouth!!) and I feed her tiny pieces of toast at the same time which she gums to death before swallowing.

I'm very luck as she seems very comfortable with lumpy food already and is good with chewing and swallowing. The problem is she is so used to having veggies that I have cooked that she is starting to turn her nose up at jars which I don't want as sometimes they are a god send when you are knackered and want something quick, or when you are on the go. She certainly didn't think Hipp Organics 'Scrumptious Sunday Lunch' was very scrumptious today!!

I'm going to try spaghetti on toast tomorrow - have bought low sugar and salt kiddie hoops which I will again mush up a bit with a fork. I think I just got so bored with her eating the same thing I needed a change, whether she liked it or not!!

I thought that with the toast, Amelia just starting to have finger food so I suppose it will take her a while to know what to do with it, just strange how they eat all toys but not food they should lol.
You know the kids hoops, are they the normal ones heinz do rather than the baby ones? Xx

 

[Nic36]

Thanks so much for asking this, MarchPumpkin! There are some great replies...! I'm clueless too... LO is almost seven months and I've only given her purees so far... This thread has given me some good ideas. Any idea whether it's better to toast White / wholemeal bread? X

 

[hellywelly]

I just have some with scooby doo on the tin! They are kids ones not baby but are wholemeal and say low sugar and salt. I always give wholemeal toast too, but not nutty seedy breads.