Breakfast... was too soon after Ollie's milk feed and he just wasn't interested. Didn't even pick anything up. I was surprised, as I didn't think he associated food with hunger yet...
I did try breakfast again after his nap (he went straight to bed after the failed breakfast) but I had a porridge diaster so I gave up and gave him his milk feed a bit early.
Lunch was interesting! We had tuna patties and pear. Ollie didn't seem to love the patties, but did eat some. Then I gave him pear, quartered as usual. He ate nearly a whole pear! I couldn't believe it. He got quite grumpy when only a teeny (pea sized) bit was left of each bit, but was quickly placated when I gave him another bit. Before I knew it, the whole pear was gone. He then had another go at his smooshed tuna patties, picking up quite small pieces and sucking them into his mouth.
I do believe we have turned an eating corner! Now I think I need to make sure there is an easy food with EVERY meal as he will start to rely on calories etc. from his solids. After the seemingly successful lunch at daycare yesterday, I am very optimistic!
Dinner was butter chicken! Ollie loved it, couldn't pick up the rice, but really enjoyed the butter chicken (made from scratch, finished in the crockpot).
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Saturday 23rd April 2010
Breakfast.. hot cross buns! and mini wheats! Lunch... rusks with cream cheese (Farex mixed in) and pineapple.
Can you tell we are having a lazy Easter weekend? Both meals Ollie ate well - sucking the cream cheese of the rusks, and off a spork! Again, loving the pineapple!
Dinner.. lamb kofta cooked by my darling husband (baked not fried) with steamed cauliflower and carrot. Ollie had a great meal, ate lots. More vege than kofta as the meat took a wee while to cool down. At the end of the meal we used the laptop to skype Ollie's grandparents in Nelson so we could show off his eating! He was obviously distracted, but did continue to eat a bit while the laptop was on. It was cool for the grandies to see him munching away!
Can you tell we are having a lazy Easter weekend? Both meals Ollie ate well - sucking the cream cheese of the rusks, and off a spork! Again, loving the pineapple!
Dinner.. lamb kofta cooked by my darling husband (baked not fried) with steamed cauliflower and carrot. Ollie had a great meal, ate lots. More vege than kofta as the meat took a wee while to cool down. At the end of the meal we used the laptop to skype Ollie's grandparents in Nelson so we could show off his eating! He was obviously distracted, but did continue to eat a bit while the laptop was on. It was cool for the grandies to see him munching away!
Tuesday 19th April 2011
Breakfast today was mini wheats and pear. Ollie didn't eat a huge amount, but had a big milk feed beforehand so probably wasn't too hungry.
Lunch was at childcare, part of the settling process. It was tomatoey pasta (penne) with veges - broccoli and peas. It was VERY distracting for Ollie, with all the other kids eating, but he did OK. Picked up the pasta and broccoli OK, but I don't think much went down. The broccoli was only the small florets, no stalk, so I was pleased he got it OK. He seemed to recognise it, as he loves broccoli. Wasn't cooked til mushy stage, so too crunchy, but he probably got some wee bits. He did chew off at least one piece of pasta though... I saw it in his mouth half an hour later when we were on our way home!! I'll have to ask them to check his cheeks I think...
Dinner was boooring. Chicken with steamed vege. Ollie ignored the chicken, but did eat his vege, mainly the red capsicum and carrot.
Ollie is starting childcare next week. I'm so not ready.
Lunch was at childcare, part of the settling process. It was tomatoey pasta (penne) with veges - broccoli and peas. It was VERY distracting for Ollie, with all the other kids eating, but he did OK. Picked up the pasta and broccoli OK, but I don't think much went down. The broccoli was only the small florets, no stalk, so I was pleased he got it OK. He seemed to recognise it, as he loves broccoli. Wasn't cooked til mushy stage, so too crunchy, but he probably got some wee bits. He did chew off at least one piece of pasta though... I saw it in his mouth half an hour later when we were on our way home!! I'll have to ask them to check his cheeks I think...
Dinner was boooring. Chicken with steamed vege. Ollie ignored the chicken, but did eat his vege, mainly the red capsicum and carrot.
Ollie is starting childcare next week. I'm so not ready.
Monday 11th April 2011
Where is the month going? I'm back at work in three weeks (sob) so Ollie is in daycare two days a week beginning 26th April. Haven't yet worked out how the food thing is going to work. We aren't allowed to take our own food - they have an in house chef. I assume to avoid allergies/sharing issues.
Breakfast.. avocado (mixed with baby rice) on toast, mini wheats, pear. Toast was the top favourite today, Ollie really got into it. Seems to be a bit over the mini wheats, though does give them a go if they are first on the tray and there is a delay in something else. Even pear wasn't as popular as usual. Ollie seemed to eat a fair bit of avocado and toast which was good.
Lunch... piklets... with baby rice for iron. (I eat a lot of baby rice). I spread a wee bit of cream cheese on Ollie's piklets. Not only did he suck the cream cheese off, but I think he actually ate a fair bit of piklet! Also had second half of pear from this morning, but Ollie wasn't really into it.
Dinner.. macaroni cheese. Busy day, Ollie not really interested in eating much. Did enjoy sucking on the pasta.
Breakfast.. avocado (mixed with baby rice) on toast, mini wheats, pear. Toast was the top favourite today, Ollie really got into it. Seems to be a bit over the mini wheats, though does give them a go if they are first on the tray and there is a delay in something else. Even pear wasn't as popular as usual. Ollie seemed to eat a fair bit of avocado and toast which was good.
Lunch... piklets... with baby rice for iron. (I eat a lot of baby rice). I spread a wee bit of cream cheese on Ollie's piklets. Not only did he suck the cream cheese off, but I think he actually ate a fair bit of piklet! Also had second half of pear from this morning, but Ollie wasn't really into it.
Dinner.. macaroni cheese. Busy day, Ollie not really interested in eating much. Did enjoy sucking on the pasta.
Sunday 10th April 2011
Great food day today! Daddy did breakfast (mummy had a sleep in!) which was mini wheats and pear. According to David, Oliver ate at least half a mini wheat and a bit of pear (which sounds like nothing, but in the early days of BLW that is pretty good I think!)
Lunch we had at a cafe with his beautiful aunties Kate & Scone. Cheese toastie, rusk with cream cheese, and banana. Banana went pretty much straight on the floor (and I wasn't giving it back). Cream cheese was sucked off rusk (as usual). Toastie was interesting.. I cut it into short soliders and he sucked on them for most of the time we were eating. White bread, so hard to chew up, but bits definitely went down with all the sucking!
Dinner was Lamb Kofta (recipe provided by university study resources). And wow, it was a hit. Kofta straight to mouth, lots of chewing and sucking. Also had steamed kumara, carrot, and broccoli which he really got into, it was nice and mushy so easy for him to pass around his mouth. Definitely got kofta and veges down. He was really funny, cracking up towards the end of the meal, with a beautiful smile on his face.
I've decided to post any pics over on our main blog and just use this as a food diary. Saves posting them twice, and I figure no one actually reads this anyway (except maybe mum). Main blog here .
Lunch we had at a cafe with his beautiful aunties Kate & Scone. Cheese toastie, rusk with cream cheese, and banana. Banana went pretty much straight on the floor (and I wasn't giving it back). Cream cheese was sucked off rusk (as usual). Toastie was interesting.. I cut it into short soliders and he sucked on them for most of the time we were eating. White bread, so hard to chew up, but bits definitely went down with all the sucking!
Dinner was Lamb Kofta (recipe provided by university study resources). And wow, it was a hit. Kofta straight to mouth, lots of chewing and sucking. Also had steamed kumara, carrot, and broccoli which he really got into, it was nice and mushy so easy for him to pass around his mouth. Definitely got kofta and veges down. He was really funny, cracking up towards the end of the meal, with a beautiful smile on his face.
I've decided to post any pics over on our main blog and just use this as a food diary. Saves posting them twice, and I figure no one actually reads this anyway (except maybe mum). Main blog here .
Saturday 9th April 2011
Breakfast.. mini wheats and pear! Of course! I'm working on more varied breakfasts!
Lunch was at Nana & Poppa's so we took some french toast and avocado (mixed with baby rice for iron) to have on rusks). Oliver wasn't too distracted (it was just the two of us at the table) but he made quite a mess! Ate lots of avocado and some french toast!
Dinner was pork chops. I was hoping he could hold onto the chop and chew, but the chops I got were the wrong shape for that! Still, he loved the pork, he had a stray bit in his mouth that we was chewing en route to shower. We now have a cheek checkpoint in the shower every night!
We've got proper (but short still) little teeth through now, the two bottom ones. It will be interesting to see how that affects our mealtimes!
Lunch was at Nana & Poppa's so we took some french toast and avocado (mixed with baby rice for iron) to have on rusks). Oliver wasn't too distracted (it was just the two of us at the table) but he made quite a mess! Ate lots of avocado and some french toast!
Dinner was pork chops. I was hoping he could hold onto the chop and chew, but the chops I got were the wrong shape for that! Still, he loved the pork, he had a stray bit in his mouth that we was chewing en route to shower. We now have a cheek checkpoint in the shower every night!
We've got proper (but short still) little teeth through now, the two bottom ones. It will be interesting to see how that affects our mealtimes!
Thursday 7th April 2011
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!
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!
Sunday 3rd April 2011
Woohoo BREAKFAST! We had mini wheats (best find ever - I must thank the mum that put me on to them!) with rice milk, and pear. Ollie had a really good go at the mini wheat and for the first time ever loved the pear! Normally he just ignores pear, and I was close to giving it up but today he got right into it. It was quite ripe (another tip from the same mum) which I think helped.
Lunch was a bit of a drama.. we went to Grandma and Grandads, but left Ollie's lunch box at home! whoops! We scraped together a banana, plum, and teething rusks with cream cheese. I guess my super iron rich piklets will be good for lunch tomorrow! Ollie really enjoyed his banana and for the first time ever he managed to eat some of the rusk (cream cheese everywhere!) I think the TEETH coming through really helped, as it looked like he was scraping the rusk on his teeth! They aren't really teeth - just little pointy tops of teeth - both bottom ones!
Dinner... meatloaf from last night and steamed capsicum and beans. Ollie was way tired and not into it. I was really hoping he would like meatloaf as his dad loves it!
And just because there has been no Ollie pics on here for a bit....
Lunch was a bit of a drama.. we went to Grandma and Grandads, but left Ollie's lunch box at home! whoops! We scraped together a banana, plum, and teething rusks with cream cheese. I guess my super iron rich piklets will be good for lunch tomorrow! Ollie really enjoyed his banana and for the first time ever he managed to eat some of the rusk (cream cheese everywhere!) I think the TEETH coming through really helped, as it looked like he was scraping the rusk on his teeth! They aren't really teeth - just little pointy tops of teeth - both bottom ones!
Dinner... meatloaf from last night and steamed capsicum and beans. Ollie was way tired and not into it. I was really hoping he would like meatloaf as his dad loves it!
And just because there has been no Ollie pics on here for a bit....
Saturday 2nd April
We did intend to start breakfast today with Ollie, but that extra 15mins in bed, listening to Ollie chatter to himeself meant it didn't quite happen. Was worth it though! And we went swimming, which was awesome!
The pesky bottom tooth is still working its way through, it doesn't appear to be of any use yet, but is causing our wee boy lots of pain!
Lunch - Blackcurrant mini wheats with a splash of rice milk, carrot muffin, and banana. Was really surprised how well he dealt with the mini wheats! And he hadn't had a carrot muffin for a while (they tend to be messy) and he handled the small pieces really well - and chewed much better than he used to! Impressed. Banana.. well he was a bit over it by that point, but it was fun to throw around!
Dinner... supposed to be meatloaf.. but our timing was out! Saves cooking tomorrow night I guess! So, we ended up with pasta, broccoli, capscium, and carrot. Ollie was on form, depsite being really tired. Had a good go at everything. He bites off chunks of everything, and mulls them around his mouth for a while. Some go down, but most go out!
Stop reading now if you don't want to read about poop. Today's nappy showed that we are definitely eating and "processing"more we are getting changes... and of course still lumps of non-processed food. No longer just breastmilk poop that is for sure!
The pesky bottom tooth is still working its way through, it doesn't appear to be of any use yet, but is causing our wee boy lots of pain!
Lunch - Blackcurrant mini wheats with a splash of rice milk, carrot muffin, and banana. Was really surprised how well he dealt with the mini wheats! And he hadn't had a carrot muffin for a while (they tend to be messy) and he handled the small pieces really well - and chewed much better than he used to! Impressed. Banana.. well he was a bit over it by that point, but it was fun to throw around!
Dinner... supposed to be meatloaf.. but our timing was out! Saves cooking tomorrow night I guess! So, we ended up with pasta, broccoli, capscium, and carrot. Ollie was on form, depsite being really tired. Had a good go at everything. He bites off chunks of everything, and mulls them around his mouth for a while. Some go down, but most go out!
Stop reading now if you don't want to read about poop. Today's nappy showed that we are definitely eating and "processing"more we are getting changes... and of course still lumps of non-processed food. No longer just breastmilk poop that is for sure!
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