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What's for baby's dinner, moms of 9 month olds?

otoro98otoro98
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I am in a food rut for my baby. What are you all having for dinner this week??? I'm too afraid to try new things sometimes, I think, esp when it comes to finger foods and textures...Thanks!
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Re: What's for baby's dinner, moms of 9 month olds?

  • AgrippaRidesAgainAgrippaRidesAgain member
    What are you eating this week? By 9 months, both of my kids were starting in on versions of what we were having for dinner. Neither of them had teeth at that age, but they were able to manage a wide variety of foods. Experiment and see what happens!
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    Thanks. Yes, part of the problem is that we don't have planned sit down meals during the week since my husband gets home late from work (8pmish - he has an alternate schedule mandated by his job) and so that means it is just me and DD in the evenings, and she's down by 7...I guess I just need to get ahead of the game on the weekends and plan/cook for the week for both of us. (Okay, I guess for DH too..:) )  At this point I feel like a lot of our "adult" food is too salty for her (or has components I'm not yet comfortable with her eating) when I'm rushing during the week, so I have been trying to limit her to what I think are healthier options, which ends up being the same homemade three things I happen to have in the freezer and defrost for her. I think she is getting sick of it.  Anyway...I'm thinking out of the box for tonight, wish me luck! 
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  • NicoNikoNicoNiko
    Some of the first foods for both of my kids were beans (baked beans, red beans, black beans, whatever) and breakfast foods (waffles, pancakes, bagels with cream cheese cut up tiny, eggs, sausage, cereal (dry or soaked in milk depending on the texture).  When I need something quick, I still fall back on "breakfast foods." 
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  • 2vthokies2vthokies
    Is she on to finger/table food?  I always have frozen veggies - the mixed (corn, green beans, carrots), lima beans, etc in the freezer - easy to make in a pinch (and you can cook to the consistency you are comfortable with).  I also keep turkey meatballs, organic chicken nuggets and organic fish nuggets in the freezer. I often make regular pancakes loaded with spinach and sweet potato and freeze the extra.  I keep baked, sliced sweet potato in the freezer.  Reheat in the micro.  Scrambled eggs - classic go to. Toast with sunbutter. Check out wholesomebabyfood.com for more ideas and recipes.
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  • umdbrideumdbride

    ditto pps suggestions for making food ahead and freezing it - we also got some whole wheat spinach and cheese ravioli from whole foods that DS loves.  Scrambled eggs in a mug in the microwave are super easy, and we throw some broccoli and cheese in to mix it up.  

    In general, we try to plan our meals ahead much more now so it is easier to feed DS at the same time (and pack his lunch for the next day).  If that doesn't work, DS's dinner is the dinner we had the night before.

    One make-ahead meal that DS loves is beef stew - the meat is really tender and all the veggies are right there too.  We usually cook a little whole wheat pasta for his version too. 

     

     

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  • RomeRomance06RomeRomance06

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    Thanks. Yes, part of the problem is that we don't have planned sit down meals during the week since my husband gets home late from work (8pmish - he has an alternate schedule mandated by his job) and so that means it is just me and DD in the evenings, and she's down by 7...I guess I just need to get ahead of the game on the weekends and plan/cook for the week for both of us. (Okay, I guess for DH too..:) )  At this point I feel like a lot of our "adult" food is too salty for her (or has components I'm not yet comfortable with her eating) when I'm rushing during the week, so I have been trying to limit her to what I think are healthier options, which ends up being the same homemade three things I happen to have in the freezer and defrost for her. I think she is getting sick of it.  Anyway...I'm thinking out of the box for tonight, wish me luck! 

    This is us exactly. I've really been experimenting lately because DD loves to self-feed now. Last night was salmon (LOVES IT) with steamed asparagus and sweet potato cubes. Otherwise, steamed broccoli, frozen veggies (peas and carrots are good). She loves yogurt so I've been buying whole milk yogurt and mixing in a fruit puree. She also likes Yo Baby yogurts. I don't really make any of this ahead of time. Fish is easy because you can just throw it in the oven for 15 minutes and it's ready to go. I usually season one fillet for me and leave hers plain. Same with steamed veggies. I'll separate her portion and season afterwards. But I would like to get ahead and plan more meals for her so it's easier. I've started looking at recipes to see if I can make some separately for her without salt or other processed things. Frozen meatballs sound like a good idea. You can make those really easily yourself on the weekends and freeze them and you won't have to worry too much about any extra stuff in them. I think I might try that this weekend.

     

     

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  • otoro98otoro98
    Thanks so much, everyone!  This is VERY helpful. I haven't tried eggs with her before, but that may be tonight. (She hasn't tried fish at all either!) I've also not been doing too many bready things, but I guess she can try those too. I think I've been way too hesitant! Anyway, so many ideas...beans, turkey meatballs, etc. Really appreciate it!
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