9 month's food

[Laurhilou]

Hi everyone, what do your 9ish months eat? I'm looking for some inapiration as he goes back to childminders in 3 weeks and needs some lunches..

How many bottles are they on a day now?

 

[Noodlebear]

I think at around 9 months 2 bottles is the norm but we were at that stage a while ago now so might not be right.
Lucas will eat whatever I eat really. We usually just send him with a sandwich with ham/marmite/cheese etc or some soup but he'll sometimes have wraps or pita bread with some meat and/or veggies, cubes of cheese, carrot/cucumber sticks, grapes, bananas, strawberries, raspberries, pancakes, quiche, pizza, yogurt etc

 

[cupcaker]

We have around 3 bottles a day, trying to fit in the rough guide of 1 pint (aprox 20 oz).

8oz in the morning when he awakes, and generally I offer two lots of 6oz in the day... 'roughly'. However things vary. If he's moaning he might have an extra few ounces or sometimes he is offered the milk and doesn't want to drink it all at that time, so ends up with more bottles but consuming less out of them. I also have a beaker of cooled boiled water that he sips with his lunch and tea (doesn't seem to drink much of it).

I work 4 days a week so leave 4 lunches for family members to heat up. Usually I leave a homemade chicken casserole, beef casserole (both blended) or chicken, cheese and ham pasta (mini pasta). I then leave bits to put out on his tray, say cheese and cucumber sticks, organix/goodies puff snacks, and also I leave some sort of pudding , usually a yoghurt or a jar style pudding. Sometimes I pack fruit puree too or a baby biscuit of some sort.

I am however reaching a hard point!! He is getting shirty about eating from a spoon, which sometimes scuppers my casseroles and pasta. Stuff he can pick up himself, he is fine with!! So my meals may have to be adapted soon.

When I am serving up the meal myself, I am more flexible, and might there and then cook an omellete, or a piece of salmon to flake up or microwave a steam-veg pack or something. He will have sandwiches (soft cheese or similar) but I worry bread sometimes messes up his digestion a bit at times.

I've just done a Tesco order with more adventurous bits to try, hopefully stuff he can pick up himself. I've been looking at some of the Annabel Karmel recipes like chicken balls, meatballs etc that freeze. I wouldn't worry so much if it was me feeding him each day but leaving meals for others is difficult when he is being funny about spoonfed foods.

 

[MindUtopia]

If his pincer grip is good, at 9 months anything that could be picked up with the pincers was a big hit. It didn't so much matter the food as the shape for us. Peas, blueberries, grapes sliced in half, tiny pieces of carrot, pieces of banana, plus sandwiches or things with spreads, like bagels with cream cheese, and then really anything you have for dinner the night before, sometimes it's curry (with big chunks of meat, paneer or veg, she still isn't much into rice but likes the chunky things), pasta, mac and cheese, roast chicken slices or goujons, fish cakes, mini pizzas, etc. Quiche has recently become a big hit as she likes egg. I admit I buy the ready-made ones, which she doesn't have often because they do have added salt, but it's an easy quick meal when I need one. She also usually has a natural yogurt with fruit or a fromage frais (this is the only thing I spoonfeed her, she just doesn't get the concept of spoonloading yet).

We still do 4 bottles a day most day, but she's always been a baby who ate little and often. Sometimes those bottles are only about 3-4 oz, sometimes if she's really hungry 6 oz. I anticipated she'd drop the late afternoon one (5pm) by now but we usually don't get around to having dinner until 6pm, so she's still hungry earlier and it helps hold her over to dinnertime. There's no rush to drop them though. They do it in their own time.

 

[baileybubs]

My dd is 9 months and has just dropped a bottle and is on 3 now. She has 8oz at morning and night and usually around 5-6oz at her middle bottle around lunchtime.
She has 3 meals a day and usually an afternoon snack, admittedly still gets a lot of all this on the floor because we are doing BLW but the nappies prove there's a lot more going in than I thought!

There's not much I don't give her really, except honey and whole nuts.

These are some of the things we give her for lunch;

Mini jacket potatoes and beans or tuna
Soup on bread or toast
Mini pizzas made with flat bread
Sandwiches
Cucumber sticks, cherry tomatoes and potato salad
Crumpets
Potato cakes
Pasta with veggies and just mix in a little cream cheese (flavoured ones are good like Philadelphia light with garlic an herbs)
Steamed veggies with chicken strips/sliced meats like ham
Shepherds pie
Bolognese (messy!)
Quiche
Omelette
Scrambled egg on toast (very messy!)
Blinis with salmon pate

 

[Abz1982]

Hi everyone, what do your 9ish months eat? I'm looking for some inapiration as he goes back to childminders in 3 weeks and needs some lunches..

How many bottles are they on a day now?

sorry to hijack this...........does the Childminder not provide lunches??