https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 19 Apr 2026 01:48:36 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/food-inspiration-for-9-month-old#post-2712922 Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:55:17 +0000 Cherrybee 2712922@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I make omelette fingers for my LO, with chopped mushroom and spinach in. She loves them. She also loves home made fish cakes and chicken patties. Other faves are sweetcorn, all fruits and cucumber. Oh and she loves McDonald's fries! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/food-inspiration-for-9-month-old#post-2712886 Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:20:13 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 2712886@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>By 9 months I was giving DD whatever I was eating just cut into small pieces. She loved cheese, eggs, peas, steamed carrots, salmon, spaghetti squash, ground meat, lima beans, berries, broccoli, potatoes, soup, pasta. She sounds like your LO. She really just wanted to feed herself. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/food-inspiration-for-9-month-old#post-2712884 Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:17:04 +0000 kayla0416 2712884@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 10 month old loves:</p> <p>bananas<br /> scrambled eggs<br /> beans (black beans, chili beans, etc.)<br /> plain boiled veggies (carrots, cauliflower, &amp; broccoli usually)<br /> noodles of any kind, sauced or plain<br /> hamburger<br /> chicken<br /> salmon</p> <p>90% of the time she gets chunks of what we're eating, unless it's too firm (she only has 2 teeth). Then we'll supplement with a puree and/or something easy to grab like banana. When we started with table food around 7 months, we cut things up really small, like pea size (I even used to cut puffs in half, haha!). Now we do like marble size or bigger, depending on how soft the food is. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/food-inspiration-for-9-month-old#post-2712784 Mon, 20 Mar 2017 08:12:30 +0000 DesertDreams88 2712784@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In addition to the great suggestions above, we do a lot of whole wheat or veggie pasta in thick, hearty tomato sauce (like Muir Glen organic veggies sauce) . The shapes that work easily are mini-bowties, medium shells, rotelle/rotini, and elbows.</p> <p>Also, clumps of spaghetti squash. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/food-inspiration-for-9-month-old#post-2712774 Mon, 20 Mar 2017 07:44:31 +0000 Alba4 2712774@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Meatloaf was a hit too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/food-inspiration-for-9-month-old#post-2712741 Mon, 20 Mar 2017 05:28:46 +0000 brownepiano 2712741@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@meadow: I dice butternut squash and toss it in olive oil, brown sugar, and cinnamon, then bake it. </p> <p>For zucchini, I usually fry it with breakfast potatoes and scrambled eggs. He likes the breakfast potatoes and everything else just disappears with them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/food-inspiration-for-9-month-old#post-2712690 Sun, 19 Mar 2017 19:11:29 +0000 meadow 2712690@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@brownepiano: How do you prepare squash? I was roasting yellow/green squash and they have been refusing it lately. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/food-inspiration-for-9-month-old#post-2712548 Sun, 19 Mar 2017 07:51:08 +0000 Alba4 2712548@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks everyone. He is outright refusing a spoontoday. I made some soft apple slices and toast. He seems content with that. It is hard for me not to see him devour 6-8 oz of food! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/food-inspiration-for-9-month-old#post-2712524 Sun, 19 Mar 2017 05:45:18 +0000 brownepiano 2712524@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're having a lot of:<br /> Granola<br /> Baked oatmeal<br /> Oat muffins<br /> Boiled carrots and peas<br /> Breakfast potatoes and eggs<br /> Hard boiled egg yolk<br /> Squash<br /> Applesauce<br /> Cut grapes<br /> Pasta and beans<br /> Pasta and hamburger and lentil<br /> Streamed broccoli</p> <p>I only make him special food for lunch, the rest of the time he eats mostly what we are eating. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/food-inspiration-for-9-month-old#post-2712474 Sat, 18 Mar 2017 18:51:31 +0000 LindsayLou 2712474@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My kiddo's absolute favorite foods at that age were berries and tortellini with pesto. Homemade muffins were messy but a hit. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/food-inspiration-for-9-month-old#post-2712467 Sat, 18 Mar 2017 18:37:12 +0000 atoz 2712467@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Following! My 9 month old has recently been enjoying...</p> <p>- sticks of lightly toasted bread spread with fruit puree (I found sticks rather than tiny pieces work better for her...she sucks on them to break them down to a manageable size)<br /> - couscous with veggie puree stirred into it (could also do rice or pastas...couscous is just super easy to make small portions of quickly!)<br /> - shredded chicken (gently simmered in water/low salt broth and then whirred in a blender until it's verrryy finely shredded but not liquidy. I froze them in an ice cube tray.)<br /> - frozen broccoli steamed &amp; cut into teeny tiny florets, sometimes with a little shredded mozzarella on top<br /> - frozen peas, steamed and lightly smushed<br /> - beans, lightly mashed<br /> - half a banana (easier for her to handle than slippery pieces)<br /> - whole eggs scrambled or as an omelet</p> <p>I'm still doing some spoon feeding &amp; am also experimenting with adding different seasonings to her meals (garlic, turmeric, green herbs, paprika, cinnamon...). If I make it, I make it plain &amp; freeze it in small portions &amp; then just season it when I serve! We're having fun with solids now. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/food-inspiration-for-9-month-old#post-2712464 Sat, 18 Mar 2017 18:08:30 +0000 SweetiePie 2712464@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@meadow: whole egg! The ratio is 1 egg for every pound of ground turkey. So if you do 2lbs do 2 eggs.<br /> The mearloaves are so good. My husband also devours them and another friend recently said she made them for her 2yo and her husband ate all of them haha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/food-inspiration-for-9-month-old#post-2712452 Sat, 18 Mar 2017 17:29:24 +0000 meadow 2712452@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@SweetiePie: in the meatloaves did you use a whole egg or just yolk? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/food-inspiration-for-9-month-old#post-2712436 Sat, 18 Mar 2017 16:04:43 +0000 SweetiePie 2712436@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At that age I did plain brown ground meat with some salt </p> <p>mini muffin tin meat loaves (1lb ground turkey, 1 egg, 1 cup ground almonds or almond flour, 2 tbsp braggs liquid aminos) - froze them for quick easy meal. </p> <p>Salmon<br /> Shredded chicken<br /> Green peas<br /> Chick peas<br /> Blueberries<br /> Edamame</p> <p>And also these recipes from HB were hits,<br /> Particularly the quinoa brocoli one - DH even loves them and at 2.5yo I still make them and freeze as a quick side:<br /> <a href="http://www.hellobee.com/2013/11/12/our-favorite-recipes-baby-led-weaning/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hellobee.com/2013/11/12/our-favorite-recipes-baby-led-weaning/</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/food-inspiration-for-9-month-old#post-2712422 Sat, 18 Mar 2017 14:53:44 +0000 meadow 2712422@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Following for inspiration....I need some new ideas.</p> <p>My 9 mo like:</p> <p>Banana slices<br /> Apples &amp; pears sliced and microwaved in water until they are squishing<br /> Regular apple hunks to gnaw on<br /> Peas<br /> Steamed carrots slices<br /> Chunks of ripe avocado<br /> Watermelon cubes<br /> Cucumber slices<br /> Roasted sweet potato rounds and chunks of Butternut Squash<br /> Mango cubes<br /> Roasted squash was a flop for us<br /> Broccoli was fun the beginning but they are showing less interest in it lately<br /> Cheerios are a current obsession </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/food-inspiration-for-9-month-old#post-2712407 Sat, 18 Mar 2017 13:38:22 +0000 Waterbaby 2712407@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At that age we ate a ton of sliced/roasted sweet potatoes, rotisserie chicken (pulled and cut), cheese (both cut and shredded), shaped pasta, and tons of fruit like watermelon and cantaloupe. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/food-inspiration-for-9-month-old#post-2712397 Sat, 18 Mar 2017 12:48:59 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2712397@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My under 1 year old's favorites are:</p> <p>Berries: strawberries, raspberries, blackberries<br /> Tomatoes especially when tossed in Greek dressing<br /> Peas, carrots, string beans ( I buy them frozen)<br /> Whole wheat penne in red sauce (I cut the pasta in half)<br /> Mandarin oranges<br /> Cheese cubes (I dice up a Monterey Jack cheese stick) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/food-inspiration-for-9-month-old#post-2712394 Sat, 18 Mar 2017 12:36:32 +0000 gingerbebe 2712394@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our 10 month old likes flaked salmon, shredded soft cooked chicken, peas, soft cooked carrots, canned green beans, short small pasta shapes, little bits of rice wrapped in nori, banana spears, canned peach slices, soft cooked broccoli spears, rice of any variety, tiny bites of breads, omelets cut into cubes, soft cooked potato cubes.</p> <p>It's nice to make soup, strain it, and give the pieces to the baby. Italian wedding, chicken noodle, minestrone - all works great. </p> <p>Just put a splat mat under the chair and get ready for mess! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/food-inspiration-for-9-month-old#post-2712389 Sat, 18 Mar 2017 12:28:29 +0000 Alba4 2712389@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 9 month old seems to be sick of puréed food and is ready to take on real solids. HE has mastered eating puffs. We aren't doing BLW, but we're open to any suggestions or baby favorites. </p>