Still recovering from our colds here!!
Breakfast, mini wheats and pear. Ollie really getting into pear lately! He loooves it. Its hard to think a few weeks ago it was too slippery to hold!
Lunch... pita pocket with cream cheese (and baby rice mixed in), cucumber. Cucumber is another favourite at the moment (I think it helps with the teeth too!)
Dinner.. Chicken drumsticks, with steamed carrot and broccoli, mashed potato. The chicken was cooked in the crockpot, so really fell off the bone. Ollie had quite a good go, except the mash... He was very very tired.
My super amazing meal plan didn't go so well this week.. our oven (brand new) has stopped working. Thank god the stove still works. hopefully gets fixed next week!
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Friday 1st April 2011
Lunch... cream cheese with baby rice, using capsicum, carrot -raw, cucumber, pita pocket as dippers.
Dinner ... cottage pie with steamed kumara and carrot. Didn't get into the cottage pie - a bit difficult I think. If we keep offering eventually he'll be able to pick it up! :) Or use cutlery!
Ollie had a few days where he didn't eat so much.. but we have a tooth coming! It has started to cut, which has made for a very unhappy boy. I need to remind myself it isn't about the volume and is quite normal to have a few off days! I've done a meal plan that loosely includes lunch and breakfast to try and make me more organised so we don't have toast everyday! I've got lots of muffin recipes so we'll see how it goes.
He has definitely come along with his fine motor skills! Not quite managing the pincer grip, but getting there - using two fingers and thumb to pick up smaller bits of food.
Dinner ... cottage pie with steamed kumara and carrot. Didn't get into the cottage pie - a bit difficult I think. If we keep offering eventually he'll be able to pick it up! :) Or use cutlery!
Ollie had a few days where he didn't eat so much.. but we have a tooth coming! It has started to cut, which has made for a very unhappy boy. I need to remind myself it isn't about the volume and is quite normal to have a few off days! I've done a meal plan that loosely includes lunch and breakfast to try and make me more organised so we don't have toast everyday! I've got lots of muffin recipes so we'll see how it goes.
He has definitely come along with his fine motor skills! Not quite managing the pincer grip, but getting there - using two fingers and thumb to pick up smaller bits of food.
Tuesday 22nd March
Supposed to have lunch with a friend in town today, but I got my days mixed up and didn't go! Whoops! Cheese on toast, nectarine and cucumber for lunch today. I think Ollie has really sore teeth today and he was getting pretty grumpy at his food! He really seemed to enjoy sucking on the nectarine, which was the first time he has shown an interest I think. It was a bit firm, so I didn't really expect him to eat it. I think some toast was consumed! His drink bottle is definitely his favourite thing, and he ignores food if that is on his tray. I usually wait for him to throw it overboard and then leave it there. He seems to enjoy rubbing it on his teeth.
Dinner was meatloaf (recipe from the baby led weaning book) and steamed broccoli, and corn on the cob! Ollie not really into dinner at all tonight, don't think he ate anything - spent all of dinnertime throwing food and laughing. Oh well, David loved the meatloaf!
Dinner was meatloaf (recipe from the baby led weaning book) and steamed broccoli, and corn on the cob! Ollie not really into dinner at all tonight, don't think he ate anything - spent all of dinnertime throwing food and laughing. Oh well, David loved the meatloaf!
Monday 21st March
Pasta with cream cheese for lunch today, along with cucumber wedges cold from the fridge. Cucumber was a hit! Not sure he bit any off, but he really enjoyed sucking on it. I think he has pretty sore teeth!
Dinner was pork steak with steamed cauli, kumara, and capsicum. He had a good go at the pork, and showed the most interest in the capsicum than he ever has - chewing on it for a while. Kumara was a bit over cooked, so very mushy and just got mashed around. He is still biting off huge chunks, like tonight with the pork, and he doesn't have the molars to grind it up in his mouth!
Dinner was pork steak with steamed cauli, kumara, and capsicum. He had a good go at the pork, and showed the most interest in the capsicum than he ever has - chewing on it for a while. Kumara was a bit over cooked, so very mushy and just got mashed around. He is still biting off huge chunks, like tonight with the pork, and he doesn't have the molars to grind it up in his mouth!
Tuesday 8th March
Despite the teething monster still visiting, we had a really good day BLW-wise toda!
Lunch - bean salad, cucumber... and I can't remember what else! He really got into the cucumber, more than he ever has. I think it was because it was really cold - straight from the fridge.
Dinner - Stirfry.David and my favourite dinner, and it seems Ollie's too! First time we'd tried baby corn - and it was a hit!
Lunch - bean salad, cucumber... and I can't remember what else! He really got into the cucumber, more than he ever has. I think it was because it was really cold - straight from the fridge.
Dinner - Stirfry.David and my favourite dinner, and it seems Ollie's too! First time we'd tried baby corn - and it was a hit!
Day Ten - Monday 28th February 2011
So I've been reading the "Baby Led Weaning" book by Gill Rapley - and the approach is quite different to the one proposed by the study we're participating. The book suggests including baby in family life from the get go, and including them in every meal. So on that note, we've changed Ollie's bedtime routine, and our dinner time to include him at dinner!
For lunch we had broccoli, kumara, pear, nectarine, cooked carrot, and raw carrot with hummus. The carrot was a good dipping tool, but he wasn't keen on the hummus! I wish I'd captured his face!
At dinner, we had our usual meal of stirfry (will have to vary things up a bit now that Ollie is joining us). Ollie had broccoli, carrot, and strips of beef. He loved being at the dinner table with us, and LOVED the beef! He really got into it, and didn't really given anything else a second chance!
Whoops a bit behind in posting these!
For lunch we had broccoli, kumara, pear, nectarine, cooked carrot, and raw carrot with hummus. The carrot was a good dipping tool, but he wasn't keen on the hummus! I wish I'd captured his face!
Whoops a bit behind in posting these!
Day six - Wednesday 23rd Feb 2011
Feeling a little shellshocked and really upset about the earthquake. Ollie didn't eat a huge amount.. I didn't introduce anything new. He, as always, had fun smooshing it up.
Day Four - Monday 21st February - 4:30pm
Weird day here. Ollie is teething and has had whacked up sleep times. Toast is the favourite. Today we had avocado and cream cheese with toast, both went down well, often he had both in his mouth. Didn't seem to really ingest much, bit of toast. Still banging like a madman with his right hand, and pushing off the footrest. Think I'll take it off...
Tried cucumber, seemed to be too slippery, even with some skin left on as a handle. He did gag on a bit of toast, but thankfully no vomit this time.
Food time ended with a suddenly overtired baby - into bed! Trying to find the "right" time to give him solids so I might try a more purist approach and just give him food whenever he seems interested....
Tried cucumber, seemed to be too slippery, even with some skin left on as a handle. He did gag on a bit of toast, but thankfully no vomit this time.
Food time ended with a suddenly overtired baby - into bed! Trying to find the "right" time to give him solids so I might try a more purist approach and just give him food whenever he seems interested....
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