Flavoursome foods for 11 month old

[chezababy]

I'm looking for recipes/ideas for flavoursome foods my 11 month old can eat. She's gone off the mild baby flavours. She also won't eat any baby snacks anymore like the organix crisps etc. So I need ideas for lunch dinner and snacks please. I'm hoping some of you will be able to help as the recipes I'm finding that are suitable for babies are very bland and she won't eat them anymore. We have been doing blw so she can eat most things.

 

[Rachel_C]

If you're doing BLW you don't need 'baby food' at all What foods do you enjoy? Just cook them without salt and honey, make sure meat and eggs are properly cooked and watch out for the fish and stuff you watch out for while pregnant (I'm veggie so I can never remember what you're supposed to avoid - tuna? Shark?!). The baby stock cubes are good, much lower in salt than even the reduced salt ones. Supermarkets sell them with baby stuff.

There are loads of meal ideas in this section, I think there's a thread of BLW meal ideas, but just go with what you're eating really. My kids love a curry, they eat far spicier food than I do (their dad's influence), so maybe try something you'd not expect a baby to like. My kids love garlic too.

 

[HKateH]

My LO loves

~stir fry - I just hold the sauce on his portion and add garlic, black pepper and a bit of cream cheese instead. He likes it with chicken, salmon or fresh tuna.
~cottage/shepherds pie with hidden veg (carrots, onions, mushrooms, green beans, peas) and cheesy mash
~colcannon (mashed potato, butter, mature cheddar, cabbage, spinach, onion, shredded carrot) with baked beans (low sugar and salt variety) and salmon.

I basically feed him everything we eat but I use unsalted butter for his mash and take his portion out before I salt ours.

Breakfast and snack wise:

potato cakes, baked beans, crumpets, peanut butter, rice cakes, fruit, yoghurt, porridge/weetabix with dried figs or apricots to sweeten, cream cheese and avocado finger sandwiches, dry cereal, toddler oat bars...

My rule of thumb is don't feed LO anything I wouldn't be willing to eat: bland food is out! I flavour with garlic, herbs and black pepper. He's even eaten chilli!

 

[liz1985]

I never did any special foods for ds. He always ate everything we ate pretty much from day one. If I made extras of something I froze it then the odd night our meal wasn't suitable he had that. There is nothing they cant have at 11 months except honey and nuts. For lunches ds would have sandwiches, pasta, jacket poatoe etc, then dinner things like lasagne, spag bol, stir fri, stew, fish pie, curry, anything really that we hadnt fried.

 

[chezababy]

The problem is my oh doesn't get home from work until 6 and that's when dd goes to bed at the moment so she can't eat with us. I tend to eat a snack whilst she eats her dinner. So things I can freeze are ideal. I'll give chilli a try. I normally use packet mixes for me and oh so I've got to start learning the recipes.

 

[the why bird]

Chili is a good one. If you find a recipe you like, you can pre-mix all the spices and store them in a jar so it's just as quick as using a packet mix after that first time (and you can add salt for the grown ups when you serve it, if you like)

My daughter loves curries and stews. She's also really into smoked fish which has a strong flavour.

 

[MindUtopia]

Whatever you had for dinner the night before. We've always just scooped some out to put in a bowl for her to have for either lunch or dinner the next day. Some days it's roast chicken with mash and broccoli, or chili like someone else suggested (btw, chili is super easy to make - it's just all the usual stuff you'd add, plus some garlic, ground cumin, black pepper and then salt to taste, which you can leave out entirely until after you've scooped some out for baby, really easy). Curries (Indian or thai) are great and my daughter loves dal. Last night I made a mexican lasagna (kidney beans, refried beans, sauteed onions/peppers/garlic, tomato, sweetcorn, cheese, etc. layered in between corn tortillas with salsa and cheese on top then baked like a lasagna). We often have lots of pastas as well - tuna and sweetcorn, tomato and broccoli, beef raviolis, cheese and garlic, etc. And also any kind of risotto (pea and asparagus, butternut squash, etc.). All of those things are great for babies. And they don't need to be frozen either. Just put in a bowl in the fridge the night before after your dinner and serve the next day. If I need a quick meal to whip up the same day, I often do raviolis or tortelloni (bought fresh and frozen in freezer bags of baby-sized portions) or a twice baked potato with cheese and herbs, both of which are favourite foods of my daughter's. Really you don't have to make anything special at 11 months though and at that stage I also started to flavour things a bit more (small amounts of stock or added salt) so it wasn't too bland, but not nearly as much as we'd use for ourselves, plus herbs, spices, garlic, etc. Then I'd season more for us once I took her portion out.

 

[Noodlebear]

Lucas developed a liking for spicy food (I'm a bit of a wimp myself so obviously not blow your head off spicy, just a nice little hint) but one of his favourite things is jambalaya.

 

[twobecome3]

I offer her whatever we're eating so chili, curries, stews, etc. I hate cooking every day so I make big 2x per week. so we're usually reheating things.

I don't put salt in anything I cook anyways xx