sample baby menu?

klepa20c

Even though my baby is generally on team breast milk fo life solids can suck it... we have started to offer solids 3X a day.  Generally we do baby cereal or baby yogurt mixed with some type of fruit for breakfast and lunch, then a veggie for dinner.  We generally give purees but are interested in starting finger foods as the pedi said she is ready for that.  Also, we give her puffs with her meals because she does like those.  i was wondering what other people were doing because i have no idea if i'm doing the right thing. 

if you don't mind sharing, what does a typical day of eating look like for your LO? If you do something different every day, what did he or she eat today? Do you try to cover all the major food groups? If you do BLW or purees it doesn't matter... I'm curious either way as I'd like to try some finger foods. if you do purees, do you make or buy your baby food?

Thanks in advance! Sorry if there have already been similar posts!

danielledunning

We do purées at daycare and BLW at home. I usually send veggie purées to daycare because he seems to like them better than fruits. At home, he gets a little of whatever we're eating. Mostly fruit and veggies, but he also likes to chew on crusts or pancakes when we go out to eat. We don't really have a set 3 solid meal schedule though. We just wing it.

jackson290721

I give DD some puree and puffs once a day if I remember. Every time except once it has ended in her throwing up. I'm no help. Boobies for lyfe. 

danigirl7181

We pretty much do BLW

Breakfast- pancakes (DS loves blueberry pancakes), yogurt, oatmeal, fruit- blueberries, strawberries, plums, bananas, apples, pears, oranges, applesauce, eggs made any way, sausage, bagels with cream cheese (very messy, lol), cheerios

Lunch-usually leftovers form the night before or sandwich contents, mac and cheese, peanut butter and jelly (yes he has had and he okay with it), cheese sicks, fruit again 

Dinner is whatever we are eating- spaghetti, sweet and sour pork, chicken, steak, fish, potatoes, rice, steamed veggies, pizza

theuntaggablek

We do a mix of purees and table food (and bf-ing). I didn't set out to do blw, but lo would much rather try pincer grasp on what we eat than suck purees it seems.

So today, for instance, he ate some baby oatmeal, corn chex , and bits of dried fruit for breakfast....toast strips spread with puree for lunch....and asparagus potato soup for dinner (which is what we all had.)

KTZ17

DD eats solids 3x a day and recently started doing finger foods. She is a huge fan of purées, but I wanted to encourage her pincer grasp and she does have 2 teeth now (not that she uses them to eat). Anyway she either has oatmeal or yogurt for breakfast with little pieces of banana that she picks up herself. For lunch I've been making eggs or pasta and either pear or cantaloupe. For dinner it's always a veggie and some Cheerios or puffs. She used to really like avocado, but she hadn't had it for a while and I cut some up for her to pick up for the first time the other day and she was repulsed by it! In conclusion, I try to give her a combo of fruit, veggies, protein, and grains but it doesn't always work out like that.

danigirl7181

ken&kendra said:

We do a mix of purees and table food (and bf-ing). I didn't set out to do blw, but lo would much rather try pincer grasp on what we eat than suck purees it seems. So today, for instance, he ate some baby oatmeal, corn chex , and bits of dried fruit for breakfast....toast strips spread with puree for lunch....and asparagus potato soup for dinner (which is what we all had.)

Sounds delicious!!

sdtchica13

Gavin usually gets yogurt and half a jar of fruit purée for breakfast, veggie purée or meat/veggie purée and the other half of a jar of fruit purée for lunch and then meat/veggie purée and oatmeal for dinner, plus puffs. He also tries whatever protein we are eating, unless it's fish since I have not gotten the go ahead yet. He loves chicken and ground beef!

heatherbrownm

What @danigirl7181‌ said

Today she had:
Breakfast: hard boiled egg and orange slice

Lunch: broccoli and puffs (she loves those damn things)

Dinner: apricot glazed pork chop with couscous

bumpuser794640

Right now we are doing solids 2x per day, lunch and dinner. I'm hoping to add breakfast in soon. Today we did green beans and applesauce at lunch and peas and sweet potatoes for dinner. He also had some Gerber wagon wheels at lunch and lil crunchies at dinner.

We have also done plain Greek yogurt, plain (adult) oatmeal, and given him bits of rice, chicken, and salmon.

We make all our purees, and I need to add more foods to our menu!

valstulas

Team suck at solids. Finn has limited interest. I offer him solids once a day. Sometimes he takes them. Mostly he refuses.

gutsymama

We offer breakfast lunch and dinner.

Lately, Luke has been taking most or all of a pouch of happy baby yogurt (1st ingredient fruit, 2nd Greek yogurt) for breakfast right after his first bottle.

We offer a purée at lunch that he may it may not eat much of - he's not so into veggies. As in, today green bean/pea/pear purée was so yucky he gagged and choked and puked.

And then we give him a pouch of something we know he likes at dinner, and he almost always eats the whole thing.

He also eats a bunch of puffs throughout the day.

We let him lick and suck on whole foods we are eating, but he doesn't do very well with them and we can't have him puking on the regular.

He's also not at all interested in feeding himself. I'm mildly concerned about that. He will hold a marker and chew on it all day, but if I try to put food in his hand he gets highly offended.

hollandmama

danigirl7181 mac and cheese? like from the box? just curious... also, I haven't tried peanut butter and jelly but I will soon, I just need to find the right peanut butter (I'd would prefer without salt or sugars) which one do you use? So far he loves bread with margarine and jelly but I heard nuts are a great source of fibers, vitamins and proteins too.

danigirl7181

@sandraynic Usually we make homemade mac and cheese but he has had the box kind also. He actually likes the box kind better, lol. They say to wait on peanut butter ( or any kind of nut) until after a year, maybe two, because of allergies. DH gave some to LO because he forgot and we don't have any food allergies that we know of. So you may want to talk to the pedi before giving that one. And we just buy the one from Aldi's. 

joyfultrex

We try to get in 3 meals  per pedi's recommendation to beef up the little dude. Breakfast is oatmeal normally with some fruit. Lunch is either fruit, vegetable and or egg yolk. (scrambled or hard boiled) and dinner is whatever we have, sometimes modified to make it more baby friendly. I made cream of broccoli soup for us the other day, but made the babies with BM. We started with puree, but DS doesn't like them that much and prefers chunky stuff. He is too short to easily pick stuff up off his high chair tray though, so I have to feed him still. So we are kind of BLW.

I make all of the babies food. It is really out of laziness though. Baby can just have what I have. No special prep, or remembering to buy baby food. Baby oatmeal is the same as mine just ground up in the bullet. tacos for us means black beans and guac for him.

new2011mommy

I do purees three times day. I have been really bad about pumping so we have not had oatmeal in a few weeks. I usually do fruit in the morning, fruit and veg combo for lunch, and a veg for dinner. DD prefers the happy baby pouches. She also loves cheerios and puffs. I was so worried about choking with ds and think that I did not advance to table foods fast enough so I am tying to be better about that this time. I have also given dd small pieces of chicken, bread, and toast. I am going to talk to the pedi at her 9 month appointment about advancing her to more table food. I am thinking maybe I can start feeding her what we eat for dinner.

JTA2426

We do purees twice a day, usually fruit, yogurt, or oatmeal for breakfast and veggie, meat, grain in some combination for dinner. There are puffs or some other type of finger food for snacks and while we eat (Cheerios, puffs, peas, yogurt melts, chunks of fruit). They are still getting 4 bottles and 3 nursing sessions on daycare days an 7 nursing sessions on non-daycare days. Here's a menu link from my favorite site... It's the one for 8-12 months (the twins are almost 9m). I don't follow this but it gave me ideas.

https://wholesomebabyfood.momtastic.com/babymenub.htm#.UycNhmS9Kc2

hollandmama

missymr said:

@sandraynic They say to wait on peanut butter ( or any kind of nut) until after a year, maybe two, because of allergies. DH gave some to LO because he forgot and we don't have any food allergies that we know of. So you may want to talk to the pedi before giving that one. And we just buy the one from Aldi's. 

The recommendations have changed on this. If you have no family history of allergies the recommendation is not to wait any longer. It's believed that waiting may have contributed to the uptick in peanut allergies. LO has had egg whites now and we will be introducing peanut butter this week. We got the kraft peanut only kind. The only ingredient is peanuts. No salt or added sugar or other oils. I'm going to put it on a pancake and give it to him that way.

I know, I was only waiting in order to find the right one, I don't give sugar or salt to LO yet. I am excited to introduce eggs but we are (maybe) traveling later this week to Italy and I don't want a sick baby (supposing he is not already sick with chicken pox... long story)

jeng100

We do blw. I hadn't planned on it, but it just worked out that way because LO likes it better than purées.

Breakfast: pancakes, toast, eggs, blueberries, plums, pears, oranges, yogurt. These are all options that we rotate.

Lunch: grilled cheese, turkey, cut up cheese, sweet potato fries on occasion, fruit.

Dinner: bell pepper, asparagus, green beans, morning star "chicken" nuggets. She usually has a little of whatever we are having. Spaghetti, casserole, pot roast, cheeseburger. You name it, she's probably tried it.

martyn17

Tess' day goes like this:

Wake up: Nurse

Get to daycare: 

Breakfast: Normally oatmeal with breastmilk

Lunch: Pita bread with hummus spread on it, butternut squash ravioli, shredded chicken, something like that

Snack: Cheese stick or plain yogurt with fruit mixed in or something like that.

Plus she normally drinks about 16 ounces of breast milk

When she gets home, I'll try to nurse her (lately she hasn't been into it)

Then she eats a little with us at dinner (just a little of whatever we are eating)

Nurses again before bed

Nurses at night 0-2 times

danigirl7181

I had no idea that the recommendations for peanut butter had changed, it must have been in the last year or two cause they told me no peanut butter when DD was under one.

JenR85

DS is the same way. I was starting to get concerned because he won't hold his bottle and with puffs he just plays with them and gets upset if we don't feed then to him

mimi4347 said:

We offer breakfast lunch and dinner.

Lately, Luke has been taking most or all of a pouch of happy baby yogurt (1st ingredient fruit, 2nd Greek yogurt) for breakfast right after his first bottle.

We offer a purée at lunch that he may it may not eat much of - he's not so into veggies. As in, today green bean/pea/pear purée was so yucky he gagged and choked and puked.

And then we give him a pouch of something we know he likes at dinner, and he almost always eats the whole thing.

He also eats a bunch of puffs throughout the day.

We let him lick and suck on whole foods we are eating, but he doesn't do very well with them and we can't have him puking on the regular.

He's also not at all interested in feeding himself. I'm mildly concerned about that. He will hold a marker and chew on it all day, but if I try to put food in his hand he gets highly offended.

JenR85

DS is the same way. I was starting to get concerned because he won't hold his bottle and with puffs he just plays with them and gets upset if we don't feed then to him

mimi4347 said:

We offer breakfast lunch and dinner.

Lately, Luke has been taking most or all of a pouch of happy baby yogurt (1st ingredient fruit, 2nd Greek yogurt) for breakfast right after his first bottle.

We offer a purée at lunch that he may it may not eat much of - he's not so into veggies. As in, today green bean/pea/pear purée was so yucky he gagged and choked and puked.

And then we give him a pouch of something we know he likes at dinner, and he almost always eats the whole thing.

He also eats a bunch of puffs throughout the day.

We let him lick and suck on whole foods we are eating, but he doesn't do very well with them and we can't have him puking on the regular.

He's also not at all interested in feeding himself. I'm mildly concerned about that. He will hold a marker and chew on it all day, but if I try to put food in his hand he gets highly offended.

PrimRoseMama

We only do solids once a day. We alternate between fruit, veg, meat etc.

opheliainwaders

So, today's menu was pretty typical. We do BLW, which means she eats a lot of leftovers, hah. For breakfast she had a waffle (half landed on the floor) and a handful of blueberries; for lunch leftover chicken, potatoes, and green beans; a snack of pear sauce (constipation prevention), and for dinner leftover baked cod, steamed peas, strawberries, and some Irish soda bread.

I should also mention that she's 9m+ at this point, and her eating really picked up around 8m.

rondosa

So we do a mix of purée and BLW. He loves purée but I am doing finger food so he can learn. I try and make my own purée but he loves the pouches

He eats 3 times a day.

Breakfast is baby oatmeal (I mix with BM when I have some pumped otherwise I just use water), with a fruit purée mixed in. Sometimes a couple chunks of banana to gnaw on, and sometimes organic full fat plain yogurt. Loves yogurt.

Lunch is a veggie fruit purée. He likes Baby Gourmet organic or Love Child organic pouches. Of special note are juicy pears and garden greens", "roasted squash medley with fruit". Sigh. I try and recreate them myself but he's not as keen. The magic bullet isn't cutting it. He'll also get a couple rice rusks sometimes with a spread like organic natural peanut butter, hummus etc.

Dinner is small pieces of what we are eating, including meats, grains, pasta, veggies - before any salt or sauces are added. I have to cut them very small because he does the silent gag/goes beet red thing which freeeeeaaaakkkksss me out, and it usually makes him barf. Blah. After I'm finished most of my meal I'll feed him some purée too, since most of the finger foods don't get in. Tonight it was some rice pasta pieces with sweet potato and some carrots, with some roasted chicken.

klepa20c

JTA2426 said:

We do purees twice a day, usually fruit, yogurt, or oatmeal for breakfast and veggie, meat, grain in some combination for dinner. There are puffs or some other type of finger food for snacks and while we eat (Cheerios, puffs, peas, yogurt melts, chunks of fruit). They are still getting 4 bottles and 3 nursing sessions on daycare days an 7 nursing sessions on non-daycare days. Here's a menu link from my favorite site... It's the one for 8-12 months (the twins are almost 9m). I don't follow this but it gave me ideas. https://wholesomebabyfood.momtastic.com/babymenub.htm#.UycNhmS9Kc2

thank you that is very helpful!
i loved reading all these responses and have been very inspired to let DD try more of a variety of foods at every meal.
@missymr what is baby minestrone? is there a recipe for that?

klepa20c

@lizabethann06 i love those pictures!! too funny!

crash916

DD has 2 meals at daycare. Fruit purée mixed with oatmeal for breakfast, then veggie purée with oatmeal for lunch. We offer dinner at home which is either purée veggie and fruit or a Stage 2 veggie/meat combo. She has also stared with plum organically puffs and seems to like them. She gets BM three times at daycare usually somewhere between 10 to 12 oz. she's there from 7-5. I think we are going to start offering what we are having for dinner just in baby form.