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We do 3 meals a day + a snack. Breakfast is usually fruit + oatmeal or Cheerios and banana. I feed DD breakfast at about 8:00 am (she wakes up and nurses around 7:00). She gets lunch around 11:30/12:00. With our nanny she gets a rough purée of leftovers (today was chicken, barely, and carrots from soup I made plus some extra peas) - I just mash things a bit. On weekends, she gets whatever I am having. She eats dinner around 5:30/6:00 and has leftovers. I usually try to give her a protein plus a vegetable. I keep a lot of things frozen so it's easy to pull her dinner together if there are no obvious leftovers. Tonight she is having leftover chicken piccata, broccoli, and butternut squash. I just make sure the pieces are soft and let her go to town. We also offer WCM with meals because we are weaning (started offering at 9 months). Some go-to freezer items are black beans, butternut squash, sweet potatoes, red beans and rice, broccoli, peas, blueberries, and applesauce. If you have a Whole Foods near you, their freezer section is amazing!

We have never had a food reaction, so DD gets whatever we have. I stopped cooking with salt when she started solids - DH and I just salt at the table, which has actually lowered our salt intake. I do try to balance her meals - at least one dairy and protein per day, and a wide variety of color in her fruits and vegetables.