BLW - what did your LO eat today?

[loopy_lou]

B :- Oaty porridge, bowl of natural yoguart with home made apple, mango, pear and plum puree with 3 oz of water
snack :- liga bikkie and 8oz bottle of formula
L :- Banana rice pudding and 1/2 a pot of apple and cherry organix puree
Snack :- rice cake and 8oz bottle of formula
Dinner :- yorkshire pudding, chicken slices, and a bowl made up of 1/2 a jar of cow and gate baby balance autumn orchard chicken with more chicken and some baby friendly chicken stock wizzed with the hand blender and she hated the texture yesterday.
1/2 a jar of apple and pear pudding and 8oz bottle of formula half left.

 

[joeyjo]

B- big bowl of shreddies
S- 75% of the crumpet we were meantto be sharing!
L- dairylea & breadstick pack, banana, apple crisps, 75% of my slice of carrot cake (but I took all the icing )
S- slice of bread & cheese
S- organix orange & mango pouch
D- loads of beef stew & 5 big new potatoes (we had 3 each but he wanted more!), gingerbread, rice pud
S- half a banana

really not sure where he's putting it at the mo!

 

[Mary Jo]

Adam has had:

b: 1 weetabix and some mini cranberry wheats & milk, grapes, sultanas, a small piece of banana
l: a peanut butter sandwich, a Plum round biscuit
d: a chipolata sausage, quarter of a slice of bread & Flora, small bowlful of baked beans, cucumber, cherry tomato, grapes, a Little Yeo yogurt

 

[Mum2b_Claire]

Ruby went mad yesterday! Maybe because we were out shopping for several hours and she walked pretty much the whole time.

She had...

Breakfast - big bowl of shreddies and oat crisp
Lunch - (in Pizza express) 3 dough balls, about a third of a pizza express pizza
Snack - 2 biscuits, all of an adult sized glass of milk
Dinner - Full toddler bowl sized portion of chicken korma and rice, and a whole tin of mandarins!

 

[loopy_lou]

B :- Oaty porridge, bowl of natural yoguart with left over apple and cherry puree with 3 oz of water
snack :- liga bikkie and 8oz bottle of formula
L :- Banana rice pudding and a pot of apple and raspberry organix puree
Snack :- rice cake, carrot puff and 8oz bottle of formula
Dinner :- 1/2 a large jar of organix chicken korma, 1/2 a jar of apple and pear pudding and 8oz bottle of formula half left.

 

[sun]

My poor guy has a terrible cold!!!! He had a minor cold once before, but this is the first bad one - poor little Bun
So his eating was a little sparse today:

B: oatmeal, 1/2 apple, dates (breakfast never changes though LOL)
L: cheerios with rice milk
D: brown rice congee with shredded chicken and ginger, spicy chicken yam meatball

 

[MiniKat]

thought id join in!
Although we are only just starting out!
B- mini shredded wheat, blueberries, pear
L- a small bit of cheese, a grape, bit of pittabread with my butternut squash soup
S- 2 grapes
D - gnocchi in passata, ham, mushroom, cherry tom

small bites and sucks and nibbles off everything!

 

[kayleigh&bump]

Today Finnley had

B - bowl of weetabix and milk, half toasted bagel with phyllidelphia (sp), half a banana
S - humzinger
L - cheese sandwich, other half of banana and biscotti biscuit
D - Cheese omlette, slice of toast, grapes with yoghurt, and a biscotti biscuit

Usually he would have a better dinner than that but he fell asleep on me for ages in the afternoon and I couldnt move to make him anything

 

[jenny82]

Day off for bubs & mummy today as he was a bit off colour and has horrible eczema, although it hasn't affected his eating :/

B: Ready brek with strawberry sugar-free jam
S: Innocent smoothie stick
L: Fish nuggets, few chips & beans from Sainsburys restaurant. First time I've attempted this kind of eating out food, and of course he enjoyed it. I was still a bit wary!
D: Mushroom risotto, asparagus, tomato

Last time I made risotto, LO didn't like it at all. But this time, I overcooked it a little bit so he could hold it with his hands. He loved it like this and ate loads. It was quite tasty too

 

[loopy_lou]

another day where Harriet has refused to feed herself anything other than snacks hope this is just a phase

B :- 6 weetabix, bowl of natural yoguart with tropical fruit puree with 3 oz of water
30 min nap after 8oz bottle
L :- organix mango oaty yoguart then hour and a half nap no bottle
Snack :- rice cake
Dinner :- 1/2 a large jar of organix chicken korma, 1/2 a jar of apple and mango rice pudding and 8oz bottle of formula.

 

[TennisGal]

Hope Bun is better, Sun and your LO, Jenny

Hungry Lizzie yesterday...

B: Bowl of porridge with pear, piece of fruit toast and butter
S: Spelt biscuit
L: BIG bowl of gnocchi with cheese, tomato and roasted vegetable sauce; Rachel O yoghurt, mini blueberry muffin
S: Couple of small rice cakes
D: Portion of cottage pie, courgette and broccoli; hot banana, blueberry and pear with custad

 

[loopy_lou]

Hope Bun is better, Sun and your LO, Jenny

Hungry Lizzie yesterday...

B: Bowl of porridge with pear, piece of fruit toast and butter
S: Spelt biscuit
L: BIG bowl of gnocchi with cheese, tomato and roasted vegetable sauce; Rachel O yoghurt, mini blueberry muffin
S: Couple of small rice cakes
D: Portion of cottage pie, courgette and broccoli; hot banana, blueberry and pear with custad

I want to try Harriet on some gnocchi next week does your little one just pick them up and eat them? How do you stop them sticking the whole thing in there mouth?

 

[joeyjo]

B - shreddies
S - banana, humzinger, refused organix cheese biscuits
L - cheese, melon, grapes, half an oatcake, half an organix fruit pouch
S - half a punnet of raspberries
D - big portion of pasta, bolognese sauce (with loads of veggies), grated cheese, Greek yoghurt
S - 1 organix alphabet biscuit

 

[jenny82]

B: Toasted pancake and banana
L: CHicken pie @ creche
S: Custard & apple @ creche
D: Salmon fishcakes, leftover risotto, cherry tomatoes, asparagus (thrown on floor), sweetcorn and innocent smoothie stick. Dinner took about half an hour this evening as wee dude decided that the only way to eat sweetcorn was pick each piece up one by one very cute!

Thanks TennisGal - hes a lot better today. The cream seems to be working!

 

[Shiv]

Loopy Lou - tell me to bugger off if you like, but i have had a thought about why your LO might be refusing ot feed herself anything but snacks. It seems that the majority of her meals are spoonable (pre-loaded), i know for Sophia when she was littler the effort of using pre-loaded spoons was not rewarded by the amount of food she got off the spoon. it took too much effort and time to not get a lot of food. Perhaps this is why your LO would rather you spoon feed her, more instant gratification I guess. If you were to give her meals that were mainly finger foods, or grabbable then she would get more in more quickly, and in fact you feeding her wouldn't be an option? She is obvioulsy able to feed herself as she does feed herself her snacks, so i think she might just be being a bit lazy with the spoon. Does that make sense? It's just an idea, she might be happier with more finger foods.

 

[loopy_lou]

Loopy Lou - tell me to bugger off if you like, but i have had a thought about why your LO might be refusing ot feed herself anything but snacks. It seems that the majority of her meals are spoonable (pre-loaded), i know for Sophia when she was littler the effort of using pre-loaded spoons was not rewarded by the amount of food she got off the spoon. it took too much effort and time to not get a lot of food. Perhaps this is why your LO would rather you spoon feed her, more instant gratification I guess. If you were to give her meals that were mainly finger foods, or grabbable then she would get more in more quickly, and in fact you feeding her wouldn't be an option? She is obvioulsy able to feed herself as she does feed herself her snacks, so i think she might just be being a bit lazy with the spoon. Does that make sense? It's just an idea, she might be happier with more finger foods.

Would never tell you to bugger off

I went a little mad when she was about 3 and a half months old and bought loads of jars of food cant afford not to use them and what we eat is not really baby friendly.

In fact i have been sitting her today thinking about this myself, i have come to the conclusion that Harriet is having a growth spurt and the reason she does not want to feed herself is its not quick enough.

Today shes eaten more then me!!

B - 6 mini weetabix, a whole pot of natural yogurt and 1/2 a pot of fruit puree. 3 oz of water and 8 oz of formula
Lunch - plum carrot and sweetcorn pot with slices of carrot plus 1/2 pot of natural yogurt and 1/4 a pot of fruit puree and another 8oz bottle of formula.
Dinner - 1/2 an adult sized bowl of Irish stew (potato, parsnip, celery, onion, carrot and meat) i made sure there was a whole potato in there, a pot of organix apple and mango rice pudding and plus 1/2 pot of natural yogurt and 1/4 a pot of fruit puree and another 8oz bottle of formula.
Snacks - 4 rice cakes, 2 biscotti and 1/2 a slice of toast!!


Honestly i could not spoon the food in quick enough!! no sooner was her mouth empty she was doing her turtle head - mouth open and head forward !

Going to have to change things once this growth spurts over and try less spoonable stuff and more things she can eat herself... I want to get her eating more of what were eating so need a major rethink!!

 

[jenny82]

I definitely have probs with this too loopylou. PL spoon only works some of the time with us and most other times I do feed him myself as he will refuse to eat! Creche hasn't exactly helped matters but I'm learning to deal with it.

I do notice a difference between having spoonable food available and not giving him the choice. Tonight for example, he ate great because there was nothing there that gave the option of spoon feeding.

Things that my LO loves to feed himself are: quiche, chicken &mushroom pie (he loves the pastry), pasta, mini burgers/fishcakes, lasagne, scrambled eggs/omlette and spanish omelette (has potatoes in it). I think from now on I'm going to try to make things that don't give him the option of spoonfeeding as he does great without it!

 

[TennisGal]

I want to try Harriet on some gnocchi next week does your little one just pick them up and eat them? How do you stop them sticking the whole thing in there mouth

Lizzie LOVES gnocchi - she picks them up, bites in half and chews (normally with me saying *chew carefully*, as she does tend to get very excited when they are on the menu!) I tend to do them with sauce and grated cheese...strangely, the cheese gives them a bit of texture...not so slippery to pick up!

Today, Lizzie has had:

B: pancakes with hot fruit and yoghurt
L: Avocado from my sandwich, friends pasta, mums scone - ignored her own jacket pot (except for cheese!)
S: Pear
D: Risotto with butternut squash and cheese, yoghurt with fruit, mini muffin

 

[loopy_lou]

glad i am not alone

Sorry to hear the nursery is not helping.

Tried harriet on pasta (hated it), quiche (hated it), cucumber sticks (hated it), fish (hated it) i am going to be starting back on slimming world soon so i think i am going to try and cook for the 2 of us and husband can just work around us. How about from monday we list what we have eaten next to what we have feed little ones? It might give me some ideas as to what works for the 2 of us?

 

[joeyjo]

. How about from monday we list what we have eaten next to what we have feed little ones? It might give me some ideas as to what works for the 2 of us?

I almost always eat the same as G - including his snacks unfortunately. Have done since the start.

Things that worked really well early on were - roast veggies, omelette, boiled eggs, risotto, chicken fajitas