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Need urgent receipes please for BLW 31 week old DS!

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Coriander73 · 22/04/2007 17:08

Aitch, dizzy, anyone else help please! DS doing really well with food - have tried all manner of fruits / vegs / pitta / cheese / spag bol / chicken / salmon etc etc. He is now getting a little bored (there is only so much brocolli I can give him!) & I am totally out of ideas & getting het up about mealtimes- any advice much much appreciated

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BizzyDint · 22/04/2007 17:12

i don't have any specific recipes. aitch has loads contributed to her blog all the time. have you looked on there? otherwise are you giving the things you have? do you cook for yourself or mostly eat junk? i took blw as a good opportunity to look at my own diet.

Coriander73 · 22/04/2007 17:25

we cook everything - we did try a couple of those organix pots but he hates them. We are trying to give him what we eat but at times it's a little difficult. He did eat roast with us yday but we can see that he just loves fruit - esp. mango, papaya & banana more than anything. It's funny seeing how he has worked out what he doesn't like now - hates parsnips & carrots, both of which he seemed to like when we started down this road of mess!! I do check out the blog - sucessfully tried the pitta / cheese / tom today which he liked - but can't see much else to inspire me at present.....

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Twinklemegan · 22/04/2007 17:27

I'm having the same problem Coriander. Most of the stuff I could see on the blog sounds a) too complicated or b) contains egg which I'm not giving DS as yet. I'll be watching this thread with interest.

Twinklemegan · 22/04/2007 17:30

Bizzy - I posted a thread yesterday about salt intake and how that affects how much of our food my 9 month old DS can have. Did you see it?

BizzyDint · 22/04/2007 17:31

maybe look at the way you're doing the veg? my dd went off plain veg quite quickly, but she loves it roasted in olive oil with some herbs sprinkled on top. and she loves fried veg, again in olive oil. so for example, say we're having dinner after dd's gone to bed. i'll save some of our veg then for her lunch i'll heat it up in the frying pan with a little olive oil, she loves it. but if i gave her plain boiled veg then she ignores it. another winner is good old cheese sauce. i make a bit extra when i do something like lasagne or quiche or something like that then i have sauce to pour over her food later on over the next couple of days.

AitchTwoOh · 22/04/2007 17:35

truthfully now... what are you finding too complicated on the blog..? name recipes and i'll talk you through them if i've made them.

remember that the baby just might not like certain foods, you don't have to worry about all that stuff as you're still feeding milk on a demand basis. dd used to skip entire meals if she didn't like what was on offer but it never bothered me as a. it was always what me and dh were having anyway so i'd never gone to any effort. and b. i knew she would have milk.

plus, i've never been hugely sold on the 'getting bored' thing. so far all the babies have had is milk... it seems weird to me that they'll suddenly develop a distaste for broccoli because they are 'bored'. it's probably only the third or fouth thing they've ever tasted...

i have used a lot of the recipes that people have sent in as lunch type things, things like the beanburgers are the work of a few minutes and freeze well. apart from that dd always just had whatever we were having. what kind of food do you and dh eat, cori?

BizzyDint · 22/04/2007 17:36

i've just posted on your thread twinkle.

Twinklemegan · 22/04/2007 17:39

I can't speak for Coriander (and sorry to hijack your thread btw ) but I'll admit Aitch I only skimmed the blog the other night. But most of the recipes do seem to have egg in to bind things together.

My DS isn't getting bored with his food yet, I just think I should be offering him more variety of finger food than I do. As he's getting more difficult with a spoon I'd like to give him more full meals as finger food. And I do worry about salt intake with regard to him eating much of our food. As I said on my other thread, just a cheese sandwich seems to take up a significant amount of his daily salt allowance.

Twinklemegan · 22/04/2007 17:40

Thanks Bizzy - I'll stop hijacking this one then.

Coriander73 · 22/04/2007 17:43

Have steamed & roasted carrots & parsnips he seems to dislike any way they're done! Yes twinklemegan, whilst we don't add salt to our food (unless it's a nice bit of ribeye -no offence to any veggies!) there are things that you can't really get away with (I'm worried about him having salt until 1 year plus - I didn't worry about marmite with DD but for some reason am worrying if he has it on a bit of toast - just a tad not thick. Anyway I digress..!) The point is that I thought BLW lent itself to the family all eating the same foods & dispensing with additional baby purees / concoctions etc but I'm finding that I'm still having to make things apart due to us having, at times, food stuffs that I'm not he should be eating (mostly incase of potential allergies etc)

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AitchTwoOh · 22/04/2007 17:45

d'you know, i think you might be wrong there... a lot of the recipes came from a woman called Moomin whose child is really quite allergic. search under her name and see what comes up, i think there's quite a fwe. plus i personally never use eggs to bind things just because think they're largely unnecessary. you can try the chicken nugget things made with cornflakes rather than breadcrumbs i think. easy peasy and freeze like a dream.

AitchTwoOh · 22/04/2007 17:46

what foods can't he have, though? is he very allergic?

Coriander73 · 22/04/2007 17:52

We eat cheesey things, deli meats (think salamis/ chorizo / spicey hams etc), hummous / loads of salads every which way (with dressings done by DH which always have msutard / olive oil, garlic etce tecthey came,fillet of steaks / fish, casseroles with olives & the like, eggy things.....I suppose what I'm saying (albeit not very well!) is that we're not the general meat & two veg family we do have a very Southern European diet....which will be great at some stage for him but I do worry about eggs / salt etc etc. I just need inspiration to pass onto DH too when he has them on his days off during the week!!! I suppose I have to think about what I am going to do every single day whereas DD was Annabel Karmeled from day one, we always had pots of things in the freezer ready & waiting....not to say I wish DS was the same as he's doing so well & I'm glad we're blw but....

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Coriander73 · 22/04/2007 17:53

He's seems to be having a reaction with yoghurt (organic plain stuff as well as fromage frais) plus there is history on both sides so am trying to take it easy. My Dad is allergic to eggs... Cornflakes??!!

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AitchTwoOh · 22/04/2007 19:01

yeah, apparently they taste great done with cornflakes that you've bashed up in a bag. just use them in place of breadcrumbs.
apart from maybe the cold meats cos of salt, there's nothing on your list that i wouldn't have given to dd at the same age. fillet steak, sweet potato or just plain old potato chips (recipe on blog) and salad is a firm favourite here. likewise casseroles, the perfect blw food in my opinion with lots of chunky veg. as i say, the good thing is that you can hand it over knowing that if yoru baby doesn't like it they can just have more milk to make up.

AitchTwoOh · 22/04/2007 19:04

i didn't give dd eggs until she was about 9 or 10 months i think, just to be on the safe side. tbh if he likes fruit i'd try him on your food as well as some fruit and just try not to care which he eats. fruit's good.

GibbonInARibbon · 22/04/2007 19:17

I have given DD (7 months) well done scrambled egg a couple of times....is this a no no?

AitchTwoOh · 22/04/2007 19:24

not at all, i think they say go for it from 6 months if there are no allergies. i was just being a bit precious, i think. started off with the yolks (i think) as they are less allergenic and then worked up to both. or maybe it's the whites...

GibbonInARibbon · 22/04/2007 19:27

Oh shit.
I'm so crap - didn't think of allergies, just fancied scrambled egg on toast so DD had it too.

AitchTwoOh · 22/04/2007 19:30

well she's obviously not allegic or you'd know by now...

AitchTwoOh · 22/04/2007 19:30

or does it not work like that? so glad we'e past all that...

GibbonInARibbon · 22/04/2007 19:32

think so? hope so!
poor DD has the laziest mum on earth

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GibbonInARibbon · 22/04/2007 19:33

"hmmmm what do I fancy????"

AitchTwoOh · 22/04/2007 19:35

that's the way... [proud]

GibbonInARibbon · 22/04/2007 19:37

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