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Until LOL was 1.5 or so we would just give her some of our meals and bring some puffs and yogurt melts to round things out.

I always carry plain crackers in my bag but I usually give LO fries or anything that's in "stick" form and not too messy (slices of capsicum, shredded meat etc). I always wipe the highchair regardless of what the kids have eaten and I pick up what I can off the floor.

DD is 12 months and she eats whatever we are, I have orders her, her own meal a time or two because she couldn't eat what I had (hot wings, buffalo salad..etc)
I usually order her kids grilled chicken and a veggie or fruit! I take the rest home for lunch the next day

You don't get to my size by sharing food! So from fairly early on we would order her a kids meal and then DH would pick at the bits she didn't eat! We made sure to order less messy food, fries over spaghetti for example. We put the food on the high chair tray as we would at home (plates would get launched) and would accept that she was going to make a mess. I felt less bad about the mess because we had paid for a meal for her. Then after the meal, I would get on my hands and knees to clean up.

We usually would just feed her off of our plates. I would order a sandwich with avocado or get sweet potato fries on the side. Sometimes, I would get a side dish of something that she could eat. I generally tried to avoid paying for a meal that wasn't going to get consumed. I usually have the floor a wipe to get what I could and tipped generously.

I often brought food for her- though it's a blur what I usually brought. Leftovers from whatever I fed her earlier probably. And sometimes we did pouches or other easy to feed her food and Cheerios. We didn't start ordering a meal for her until after 2 years because it just seemed like a waste. And a lot of times I wanted to order something I knew she wouldn't eat anyway.

As for mess I picked up what I could and tipped well. Often they would say not to bother since they would sweep anyway.

I never brought food. I just nursed if she didn't want to eat anything and was hungry. But we felt that food at that point was just for fun and practice. She didn't consume a lot u Tim 8.5 months or so.

We didn't really do BLW but I always brought something my son could eat right away because sometimes just waiting made him antsy and angry in the high chair. We gave him Cheerios or melts and blueberries from home and then he could have some fries or steamed veggies off our plates. If I felt like he wouldn't get enough to eat I carried a pouch in my purse and squirted some into his mouth. After he turned a year when he was self feeding well, we gave him fries, bites of burger patty or nuggets and bun and some fruit of we had it and ordered him a milk. Mexican restaurants are great too - he likes pinto beans, small pieces of chips, bites of tortilla and shredded meat. I usually clean up as much as possible and leave a big tip. We also carried out own hook on chair or booster bc my son doesn't stay put in the restaurant high chairs.

I'm pretty anti bringing separate food for baby to a restaurant. We also didn't start ordering something for DS until way after he turned 2. We just let him try stuff off our plates. BLW, combined with nursing, made it so we never worried about how much food he was ingesting as long as he was having fun and not making too much of a mess!

Usually just feed them off our plates. If they're super hungry while we're waiting for our food I order some carrot/celery sticks.

She shares from our (usually my) plate. I order with her in mind. I do usually bring a snack (cherrios or something) in case we need to kill time and she's antsy or hungry. She usually makes a bit of a mess, but we pick up the worst of it and leave a good tip. We just don't go anywhere really fancy and try and have early dinners. We have never had an issue and eat out with her a decent amount. The last place we went our waitress was a mom and bent over backwards for us - brought LO extra foods, ice in a separate cup (girlfriend loves ice and we usually fish it out of our cups!) and picked up her toy when she would throw it. I think/hope that this exposure has given LO enough familiarity with restaurants that we can continue to go out with her.

ETA: She's 15 mo and it's hard to predict how much she'll eat, sometimes she eats 2 bites and sometimes a ton. So we have yet to order her a separate meal because I'm sure she'd not eat that day!