BLW - what did your LO eat today?

[pachamama]

I've just been experimenting with foods and offering anything I'm eating or have cooked (bar biscuits and chocolate!)

Breakfast - porridge (just cooled down and plonked on highchair tray - he grabs handfuls and stuffs them in his mouth.) I sometimes offer a pre-loaded spoon and he's getting quite good at that. He also had some strawberries and some cheese on toast!

Lunch - home made lasagne (same as what I make for us)

Dinner - humous, toast, cucumber, banana and mango

He's eating more and more each day and learning how to transfer food into his mouth better and better each day. Lots still ends up on the floor and in the cat though!

x

 

[louandivy]

Can I ask, how do you decide what to give? Especially for lunch as breakfasts and dinners seem fairly traditional but lunches seem to be a bit of random combinations from what I've read!!
How do you decide?
And do you really give whatever you are having or do you end up preparing something different? Thanks!

For breakfast and lunch I just try and give my LO a good balance of foods even if they seem a bit random! For dinner she just eats whatever we eat

 

[buttonnose82]

yesterday he had

B - Ready brek
L - Cucumber & apple
D - Broccoli, Cauliflower & poached pear
snacks - apple rice cake

 

[Elphaba]

Today:

B - crumpet
L - asparagus
D - yoghurt mixed with pureed apple (we both held the spoon but I let him guide it to his mouth)

As oyu can see we are still at the stage of just trying out random foods in isolation rather than making up proper 'meals' but it's all good fun!

 

[Lownthwaite]

Today LO had:

B - Apricots and apple biscotti
L - Tuna sandwich and a yogurt
T - Fish fingers and beans

Carrot sticks and a rusk as a snack

Breastfed on demand.

 

[xxEMZxx]

BF - Weetabix and 3oz Milk (he hasn't been very well so isn't drinking much )
Lunch - Baked Beans on Toast & Apple slices
Dinner - Pasta in homemade sauce and Grapes. 7oz Milk

 

[Elphaba]

B - Baby porridge and hot cross bun
L - potato wedges and roast parsnip
D - Breadstick and banana and yoghurt

 

[choc]

B - Baby porridge and hot cross bun
L - potato wedges and roast parsnip
D - Breadstick and banana and yoghurt

Hi Elphaba, I see your lo is exactly 6 months, just wondered how long it had taken for lo to get to eating like this?

We have just started blw and he is not really putting much in this mouth at the moment! I didn't expect more just yet though!

 

[shambaby]

we are still just on the one meal, which today was broccoli and carrot, plus some mashed potato made with breast milk, eaten from a pre-loadad spoon; followed by some rice pudding from a jar (i know, bad mummy, not making everything from scratch!) which i was a bit miffed about - it said it was suitable from 4 months, but it had ordinary milk in it, and i thought they weren't supposed to have that until 6 months. assumed it would be formula based. oh well, won't have that again for a while. anyway, he's a whizz with the pre-loaded spoon and really seemed to enjoy himself

 

[louandivy]

B: shreddies and raspberries
L: falafel, tortilla, humous, avocado, cherry tomatoes and blueberries
D: plain chicken, a vegetarian sausage, homemade crispy potato wedges and this weird mix of stirfried cabbage, carrots, cannelini beans and bacon. Needed to use up stuff in the fridge

 

[buttonnose82]

yesterday he had

B - Ready Brek
L - Carrot & Orange muffin
D - Roast chicken, Roast Potato, carrots & parsnips

 

[pachamama]

Yesterday he had

B - Left over salmon, asparagus, strawberries and mango
L - Left over baked potato with humous, cream cheese, banana and pear
D - Home-made sugar-free rice pudding and stewed apple, brocolli, carrots, strawberries and cheese

He's now starting to drop a bit of milk - was beginning to worry he was going to explode!

x

 

[Katt]

Yesterday
B- Oatibix, steamed apple, a plum
L- Cheese on toast, cucumber, pepper
D- Stuffed baked potato with tomato, onion and cheese, and home made baked beans

I love this thread - really useful for ideas!

 

[shambaby]

yesterday we offered:

b - baby rice cereal (bought it before decided on blw and want to use it up) and watermelon

d - potato wedges, carrot and courgette sticks

although he wasn't very interested. this morning for breakfast he had more of the cereal, with pear, which he bit a chunk off of, chewed it, gagged a bit, chewed a bit more, and then swallowed! we think hehas eaten little bits before, but this is the first time we are sure he ate something which didn't come off a pre-loaded spoon. working those chewing skills!

 

[choc]

Ooh I can join in now, although ours isn't very exciting yet as we are just doing fruit and veg til he is 6 months.

b- porridge with peach and banana puree mixed in on preloaded spoon.
l- cucumber, broccoli, rice cakes

 

[Shortie77]

B- slice of toast with sugar free jam
L- ham, baby bel, cherry tomatoes, organix carrot sticks, kiwi fruit
D- salmon, broccoli and cauliflower cheese, sweet potato wedges, strawberry & raspberry yoghurt. ( natural yoghurt with chopped and pureed fruit)

 

[08marchbean]

yesterday
B- 2 bowls of cheerios
snack- some tomato and basil bread sticks
L- lams shank with mashed potato, celariac mash carrots and broccoli and yorkshire pudding
snack-bowl of fruit
dinner- spinach,basil and cheese bready thingys
snack-loooooads of curry rice cakes and breadsticks and some more fruit.
supper-home made dried fruit flap jack

she doesnt usually eat this much, she must have been having a hungry day!! about time

 

[shambaby]

today is hayden's first 3 meal day!

breakfast: weetabix with breast milk, tinned pears (a bit too slippery!)
lunch: toast with cucumber and tomato, apple and ginger cookie (ella's kitchen - naughty!)
tea: will be grilled peppers and courgette. might try defrosting some frozen mashed potato, too. hmm . . . .

 

[louandivy]

B: toast and strawberries
L: avocado, cherry tomatoes, organix carrot bar, a bit of bread and a little slice of battenburg cake
D: falafels, couscous, chargrilled vegetables and a raspberry yoghurt

 

[shambaby]

breakfast: weetabix with breastmilk, pear
lunch: boiled potatoes, carrots and peas (at my mum's - she doesn't really get that he doesn't have a pincer grip yet, he enjoyed squishing them, though!), apple and ginger cookie
tea: slice of bread with philadelphia, cucumber sticks, watermelon