Portion sizes

[DanielMummy]

I'm never sure how much to offer as portion sizes. If my 7 month old really likes something, I think he'd try to carry on eating until he was to pop if I let him.

I was looking at babyfood jar sizes and they seem to vary from about 100g -200g.

Can anyone give me an idea of the size of an average portion, either in weight or number of ice cubes? Thanks.

[SoupDragon]

I used to fill up old jars and freeze them (with a celophane lid - they don't crack). That was a portion size in my mind,

[SoupDragon]

An averagesize would be 150g though, going by the jar sizes you mention.

[DanielMummy]

Thanks Soupdragon. Great tip about being able to freeze jars as I've already broken 3 ice-cube trays when trying to get the cubes out.

[JessaJam]

DS would have 3 or 4 'ice' cubes as a 'portion' to start with.

I too demolished several ice cube trays until I got my 'eye' in enough to just dollop some food into a plastic bowl with a lid and freeze that.

You could try pouring boiling water over the back of the tray (pop it in a freezer bag 1st so they don't all fall out while it is upside down ahving water poured on it !!!

[mummyplonk]

I used to laugh how many ice cubes my little chubster would eat!, I used to fill up a freezer bag inside a genorous size coffee mug of puree'd fruit/veg etc.

Dont worry if he loves it let him pop , nothing nicer than a chubby baby, he wont turn into an obese adult. It's more worrying when they wont eat believe me, and what he loves this week he'll throw on the floor next.

[DanielMummy]

Thanks JessaJam and Mummyplonk. Excellent ideas.