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breakfast for BLWers ?

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naughtymummy · 25/03/2007 20:23

Hi i am sort of doing BLW with dd because she basically refuses anything else !. Today she had roasted root veg at lunchtime and pasta in her hands at tea time but breakfast is a flash point. We allhave cereal and DS has always had weetabix even as a titch. I know toast is the obvious choice but we have quite a lot of bread at other times and really like DS to have cereal for the calcium and iron. I do give fruit as we all have that too. I just wondered what other BLW mums do. This morning she threw abowl of weetabix at the wall ! she will NOT be spoon fed at all .

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chunkychops · 25/03/2007 20:30

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lulumama · 25/03/2007 20:32

porridge pancakes

well scrambled eggs ,she can use her hands for

ommlette

fruit pieces

potato farls

toasted tea cake

oatcakes with some cheese and raisins

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hatrick · 25/03/2007 20:32

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LadyOfTheFlowers · 25/03/2007 20:33

some chesse/ham. very continental - calcium rich! lol

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Jomaja · 25/03/2007 20:47

Hi, how do you do porridge pancakes, please? Can you prepare them in advance?

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Jomaja · 25/03/2007 20:48

Hi, how do you do porridge pancakes, please? Can you prepare them in advance?

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lulumama · 25/03/2007 20:48

recipe for porridge pancakes on here..can be made in advance

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littleEasterlapin · 25/03/2007 20:51

Hub2dee's porridge pancakes (and yes, that's my bowl in the photo ) and my pineapple porridge flapjacks .

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littleEasterlapin · 25/03/2007 20:51

faster than me, as usual, lulumama! (although MY link is direct to the recipe [preens])

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Jomaja · 25/03/2007 20:55

Gosh, you are quick!!!!!!!

Thank you so much, will try them out and see what ds thinks.

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AitchYouBerk · 25/03/2007 21:02

i've just read the comments on the porridge pancakes thread again...pmsl, i'd quite forgotten about prescott's backside.

and DD very often has leftover dinner and fruit for breakfast. frozen blueberries still a palpable hit.

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AitchYouBerk · 25/03/2007 21:03

chunky, is there a Proper Recipe for these fabled oatcakes? i'd be keen to have it if poss.

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taylormama · 25/03/2007 21:04

crumpets go down a treat with DS, toast fingers, fruit, avocado on toast (DH loves it too), fruit dipped in yoghurt (messy but yummy) toast spread with banana ...

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Jomaja · 25/03/2007 21:06

Gosh, you are quick!!!!!!!

Thank you so much, will try them out and see what ds thinks.

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lulumama · 25/03/2007 21:07
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FrannyandZooey · 25/03/2007 21:07

Ds refused mush at breakfast for quite a few years. I used to just give him anything nutritious that seemed appropriate - the thing of eating processed grains at breakfast is just a cultural thing and also quite specific to the UK and US...

Toast is just as nutritious as Weetabix (and less processed).

I used to make healthy muffins ( have recipe if you like) or sometimes give things like pizza or whatever I thought he would like. Homemade pizza is also nutritionally equivalent to weetabix and milk (both mainly wheat and cow's milk) - with added nutrients from the tomato sauce

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AitchYouBerk · 25/03/2007 21:09

yep, the porridge pancake isn't hugely more than the skin of the porridge really [vom], but dd loves them. oaty pancakes sound absolutely fab, though, and right up our street so if you don't mind i'd really, really, really like it if i could have the recipe. you could even email it to me at aitch at babyledweaning dot com if you were feeling extra kind...

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littleEasterlapin · 25/03/2007 21:09

DS would live on toast if he could - that and cucumber, strange child.

Thanks lulumama

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AitchYouBerk · 25/03/2007 21:10

recipe me up on the healthy muffins front there, frances. i only know about the unhealthy ones...

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littleEasterlapin · 25/03/2007 21:12

You do know that if my pineapple flapjacks ever appear in print as "Aitch's Pineapple Flapjacks" and you become the Nigella of the BLW world, I will hunt you down and, er, fling pineapple at you till you cry

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AitchYouBerk · 25/03/2007 21:19

i'm taking you all down with me, beeyatch.

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FrannyandZooey · 25/03/2007 21:26

Muffins

8oz wholemeal s-r flour
pinch cinnamon
pinch nutmeg
2oz chopped pecans (These are nice in the adult version, leave them out for a baby, or put in ground almonds for an older child who you know is not nut allergic)
2 oz desiccated coconut
6 oz grated carrots
6 oz grated apple
3 oz chopped dates
2 beaten eggs
4 fl oz sunflower oil
1 tsp vanilla extract

Mix all dry ingredients in one bowl and all wet in another, then combine and mix thoroughly. Spoon into muffin cases and put on a baking tray. Bake for 20 mins at 180 / GM 4.

Aitch would the chopped dates be ok for a young baby? I am so out of touch with all this now ds is huge. This recipe is excellent fun for older children to make, btw. It's from "Optimum Nutrition for Babies and Young Children" which is a fab book all round.

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lulumama · 25/03/2007 21:27

do you think we could have a BLW thread without fighting??

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