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.
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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.
It's nice to make soup, strain it, and give the pieces to the baby. Italian wedding, chicken noodle, minestrone - all works great.
Just put a splat mat under the chair and get ready for mess!
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My under 1 year old's favorites are:
Berries: strawberries, raspberries, blackberries
Tomatoes especially when tossed in Greek dressing
Peas, carrots, string beans ( I buy them frozen)
Whole wheat penne in red sauce (I cut the pasta in half)
Mandarin oranges
Cheese cubes (I dice up a Monterey Jack cheese stick) -
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.
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Following for inspiration....I need some new ideas.
My 9 mo like:
Banana slices
Apples & pears sliced and microwaved in water until they are squishing
Regular apple hunks to gnaw on
Peas
Steamed carrots slices
Chunks of ripe avocado
Watermelon cubes
Cucumber slices
Roasted sweet potato rounds and chunks of Butternut Squash
Mango cubes
Roasted squash was a flop for us
Broccoli was fun the beginning but they are showing less interest in it lately
Cheerios are a current obsession -
At that age I did plain brown ground meat with some salt
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.
Salmon
Shredded chicken
Green peas
Chick peas
Blueberries
EdamameAnd also these recipes from HB were hits,
Particularly the quinoa brocoli one - DH even loves them and at 2.5yo I still make them and freeze as a quick side:
http://www.hellobee.com/2013/11/12/our-favorite-recipes-baby-led-weaning/ -
@SweetiePie: in the meatloaves did you use a whole egg or just yolk?
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@meadow: whole egg! The ratio is 1 egg for every pound of ground turkey. So if you do 2lbs do 2 eggs.
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. -
Following! My 9 month old has recently been enjoying...
- 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)
- couscous with veggie puree stirred into it (could also do rice or pastas...couscous is just super easy to make small portions of quickly!)
- 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.)
- frozen broccoli steamed & cut into teeny tiny florets, sometimes with a little shredded mozzarella on top
- frozen peas, steamed and lightly smushed
- beans, lightly mashed
- half a banana (easier for her to handle than slippery pieces)
- whole eggs scrambled or as an omeletI'm still doing some spoon feeding & am also experimenting with adding different seasonings to her meals (garlic, turmeric, green herbs, paprika, cinnamon...). If I make it, I make it plain & freeze it in small portions & then just season it when I serve! We're having fun with solids now.
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My kiddo's absolute favorite foods at that age were berries and tortellini with pesto. Homemade muffins were messy but a hit.
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We're having a lot of:
Granola
Baked oatmeal
Oat muffins
Boiled carrots and peas
Breakfast potatoes and eggs
Hard boiled egg yolk
Squash
Applesauce
Cut grapes
Pasta and beans
Pasta and hamburger and lentil
Streamed broccoliI only make him special food for lunch, the rest of the time he eats mostly what we are eating.
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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!
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@brownepiano: How do you prepare squash? I was roasting yellow/green squash and they have been refusing it lately.
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@meadow: I dice butternut squash and toss it in olive oil, brown sugar, and cinnamon, then bake it.
For zucchini, I usually fry it with breakfast potatoes and scrambled eggs. He likes the breakfast potatoes and everything else just disappears with them.
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Meatloaf was a hit too!
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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.
Also, clumps of spaghetti squash.
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My 10 month old loves:
bananas
scrambled eggs
beans (black beans, chili beans, etc.)
plain boiled veggies (carrots, cauliflower, & broccoli usually)
noodles of any kind, sauced or plain
hamburger
chicken
salmon90% 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.
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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.
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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!
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