BLW-tuna?

mittyleigh23 · July 2013

Have any of you BLWers given tuna? How did you serve it? Any other meats that you have given and how did you serve those as well? Thanks!!!

kjsmith9 · July 2013

DD has had strips of baked chicken breast and strips of hamburger. I'll also pick bigger chunks of meat out if we have a casserole, baked ziti, etc. I would just serve it like you eat it - even if LO doesn't ingest much, they'll play and figure it out eventually!

vettymama · July 2013

We've done strips of chicken, pork chops, prime rib, pork loin. Chunks of hamburger and brats. Basically we give strips or the largest chunks we can find.

jwebb0512 · July 2013

Reading this post has me wondering about meat. DS is 6 months and eats purees and a few fruits in the mesh pouch. How did you know your LOs were ready for meat?! Do they have teeth? Do they chew it? Just thinking about giving DS meat or any chunks makes me panic, but I know I'll eventually have to move on from pur?ed food. BUT HOW? ??

kjsmith9 · July 2013

jwebb0512:
Reading this post has me wondering about meat. DS is 6 months and eats purees and a few fruits in the mesh pouch. How did you know your LOs were ready for meat?! Do they have teeth? Do they chew it? Just thinking about giving DS meat or any chunks makes me panic, but I know I'll eventually have to move on from pur?ed food. BUT HOW? ??

She just grabs a stick of it gnaws away. No teeth for us yet, and she was 7 months old yesterday. She sucks the juices out of stuff, and her gums are tough enough to take bites. The thing to remember is that gagging and choking are NOT the same thing... if they are making sounds, they aren't really choking. She still gags on stuff because she's still figuring out textures and how to move stuff around in her mouth . Coughing once or twice helps clear it and she's back for more!

dufferoo · July 2013

My son loves tuna! He's 10 months now, so definitely into the pincer grip stage. We gIve him the solid white albacore tuna straight out of the pouch. it's really easy for him to chew up with his gums. He also really enjoys turkey sausage, although I do peel off the skin for him. When he was younger I did think meats were the hardest food group for him, but we would sometimes give him a strip of steak or pork chop so he could just gnaw and suck on it. There's a lot of iron in the juices!

ForeverEverAfter · July 2013

Ditto PP, our Dr said the iron in the juices was sufficient. The current Health Canada guidelines are to start any iron rich food at 6 months (including fish or meat) so steak was a first food for LO. No teeth here either.

To the original q: Our LO gums and sucks strips of steak, chicken breast or pork, gnaws small bits off of chicken drums or ribs, and eats flaky things like lobster, cod and haddock. It's very difficult for her to pick up the really flaky fish, like haddock, so I serve it with mashed potatoes. They make her hands so sticky that the fish sticks to her hands and she licks it off

pb_bride · July 2013

We haven't done tuna, but we do white flaky fish once a week. In fact, DS had cod and bay scallops tonight. Cod tends to hold together better than other flaky fish. I give him a chunk (size of a sugar cube) and he grabs it and eats. Sometimes we do flounder but I coat it with eggwash & flour then pan-fry, so the coating helps keep the flesh together.

In reply to the other poster about meats, I found that stewed meat (cooked in slow-cooker for 8hrs), poached chicken, and ground meat works best for DS. The stewed meat (eg, like pulled pork) gets tender enough and I shred it more for DS. Same for poached chicken. If I cook sausages, I take the casings off and crumble the meat. I also make my own beef burger patties and lamb burger patties, and I cut off a smaller piece for DS. So DS has had pork, beef, lamb, as well as chicken.

P.S. thinly-sliced deli meats also work well for DS. However, I only give him a little because of the high salt content.

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