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If you make your own baby food..

jenn11178jenn11178 member
in Babies: 6 - 9 Months

Would you mind sharing a sample "menu" of what your baby eats..

Since LO started solids..I have made all of his food..I feed him 3 meals a day.  The problem is...I feel like I always give him the same food..I am running our of ideas on what to give... I stick mainly to apples, pears, and banana for fruit..  Sweet potato, green bean and peas for veggies...and just added some chicken..

Any advice would be great! 

BTW...LO is 8 months old :) 

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  • NorahtheExplorerNorahtheExplorer

    These are all purees you are making, right?

    One idea would be to copy what the stores sell.

    Peach yogurt and oatmeal blended

    Sweet, potato, corn, and apple

    Blueberry banana mash

    Rice and lentils too!

     

    My LO LOVES blueberries. I cut them in half or quarters.

    Check out wholesomebabyfood.com too!

     

     

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  • blossom2010blossom2010 member
    I do a lot of mixes of vegetables. My LO loves Sweet potatoes and corn.
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  • dehsignzdehsignz

    I feel like she is always eating the same thing too. Ready for some good ideas!

    I thought corn was a bad idea since it is hard to digest? 

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  • Wufroggy79Wufroggy79 member
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    I got a list of all the fruits/vegetables from wholesomebabyfood.com.  It lists out the age range that's recommended for each food, and I just check them off as I feed them to A.  It helps me give her more variety.  I also mix things together like PPs said.  Today, she had turnips, mangoes, and oatmeal mixed.  Yesterday, she had peas, apples, and rice mixed.
    I do this too. Today she had banana, apple, and rice for breakfast and then green beans for dinner (her new solid).
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  • Wufroggy79Wufroggy79 member
    I forgot to add, as long as it is okay with your doctor, you can start to add spices too like nutmeg and cinnamon to give foods a different flavor. I haven't done it yet...waiting for the 6 month appt.
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  • jocassjocass member

    Have you looked at wholesomebabyfood.com? It's awesome for how to cook things and suggestions for what to mix and recipes and what not. (you can find them on facebook too)

     

    So far we've done: sweet potatoes, avocado, bananas, oatmeal, cheese, strawberries, beef, broccili, peaches, yogurt, onions, pasta sauce

     

    He LOVES avocado (it's like his crack).

    He's so-so on beef, broccili, and sweet potato.

     

    I love mixing things when I can. We made a little more subtle version of taco meat for him (beef, onion, cheese, dulled down taco seasoning). We've mixed sweet potatoes and beef. My favorite is to mix oatmeal, bananas, and cinnamon (it's his favorite mix too).

     

    I just keep trying to rotate through the things. So in a given week, there will be 2-4 foods available that he already has had and likes, and then we'll introduce 2-3 news things. I also try to rotate through the things he has already had (although he loves avocado, we don't always have it for him. Just took a week break from bananas but now they are back). I also like trying to mix old things in different ways, so that it doesn't seem like he's eating the same things.  Like I'll start mixing peaches and oatmeal instead of bananas (or with bananas maybe)

    One cool thing that a lot of people don't realize is that babies can essentially eat everything we eat--we just need to season it a little less for them. So you can just puree or cut up what you're having for dinner (or cook a smaller portion and season it a little less) no matter what type of food (hispanic, asian, mediterranean...etc) and give it to LO. I plan on making him some shepard's pie in the not too distant future, or my homemade ham cheese pockets. if you don't want to give LO exactly what you are eating, do a simpler version (with maybe a couple less/different ingredients). We were thinking of making a "peach cobbler" for our LO with peaches, vanilla yogurt, and maybe crumbled graham crackers (or something like that). Before we give him hummus, we'll do garbanzo beans and something else.

    hope this helps!

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  • missbobbijeanmissbobbijean
    So far we've done brown rice cereal, oatmeal cereal, sweet taters, carrots, mango and bananas. I'm going to try peaches and chicken this next week. I mix and veggies together sometimes for a different flavor. LO is only 6 mos old right now but I think we're doing great!
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  • Arielle27Arielle27 member

    Any combination of the following vegetables: carrot, sweet potato, squash, eggplant, zucchini,regular potato, cauliflower

    Fruit: apples, pears, bananas, peaches (although I haven't been wildly successful with these), melon (fresh)

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  • 06162006bride06162006bride
    For one to two minutes cook cherries cut in half in one tablespoon of water then add mashed banana yum!  Might need to pick out some of the skin from the cherries depending on what you use to puree.
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