Any recipes/food wise ideas for beginner (almost 6 months old)??

[ThomasMum]

Please share your homemade recipes for a beginner (almost 6 months old) with us!

Thanking you kindly,

Love Peace

ML

[Rell]

For a 6mth old I found the best things are mashed veges. Potato, pumpkin, sweet potato, carrot, spinich, beans, turnip. sweed, avacardo.
For fruit you can stew apples and pears. Add a bit of cottage cheese or yogurt to the fruit for something different.
Pured meat, veges and pasta is good.

[jarrahsmumma]

hi there,
i have used pumpkin and red lentils before, works really well just boil it up in minimum amount of water and then blitz with blender and freeze small portions. if you can keep some of the water to help thin it out it keeps the goodnessess :)

rice doesn't work too well, so dont try that yet. too gluggy

natalie

[wattle]

Hi. Farex wasn't popular, so we went straight to avocado which was a big hit! Now I cook up whatever vegies are in the fridge and whizz them up.

The last few meals has been a mixture of pumpkin, sweet potato, potato, zuccini and pear (pear is good for constipation) and a spoon of prune juice.

I also had some refried beans left over and I read the label - they had no preservatives, salt etc so I mashed them up too and popped them in with the vegies. DS seems to love it. He doesn't even care if it's hot or cold.

I might try some chicken soon.

Good luck.

[ThomasMum]

I shall try those!

Tyvm,

ML

[flower]

At 6 months I was pushing chicken through a seive...(I know......) but I didnt have a food processor!!! I just broil it first.......now I broil minced chicken then place the stuff into ice cubes....ready to go. I do the same with beef bolognese which I then add to baby pasta or ice cube pop outs of mashed sweet potato....and a cube of brocolli sometimes........yummo!!!!
o's mom.
P.S...Going to do cubes of lentil dahl for O next......freeze, freeze, freeze........ ;)

[ThomasMum]

I do the same with beef bolognese which I then add to baby pasta or ice cube pop outs of mashed sweet potato....and a cube of brocolli sometimes........yummo!!!!
o's mom.


Would love to try to give our Thomas bolognaise, but he might be wee bit too young for it because of the onion? Unless we change the recipe yeah? What did you put in your sauce, O's Mum?

Thomas's Mum

[flower]

Would love to try to give our Thomas bolognaise, but he might be wee bit too young for it because of the onion? Unless we change the recipe yeah? What did you put in your sauce, O's Mum?

Thomas's Mum

Hi T's Mum,
Not sure how old T is but O is 8 months and I chop the onion up v fine...as for the sauce...I use a can of tom puree..or those tetra bricks...so finely chopped fresh tomato, look for the ones withour sugar!
I also add finely chopped carrot, but if you had a cube of finely chopped/mashed broccolli..toss this in too.
Its pretty yum.
O's mom.
Actually if T is new to solids.....he might hate the mince! Mine was totally appaled when I first started to introduce 'lumps'. So......good luck! You might have to wait for this one!

[ThomasMum]

Thanks for the info O's Mum!

Thomas is 6 months and wee bit now

(Man they grow so fast!)

I'm cooking the spag bol tonite...i might let him have a "taste"

ML

[flower]

Thanks for the info O's Mum!

Thomas is 6 months and wee bit now

(Man they grow so fast!)

I'm cooking the spag bol tonite...i might let him have a "taste"

ML

I want to know how your bb spag bol turned out??
Curious?

O's mom.

[ThomasMum]

I want to know how your bb spag bol turned out??
Curious?

O's mom.

Mornin O's Mum!

Well he didnt seem to enjoy it much, pulled faces and basically giving me the signals that spag bol was ewww for him!

I'm not giving up ;)

We'll try again sometimes soon!

[flower]

Maybe he is still too young for lumps...mine gave me the most disgusted look when I first fed him chicken mince...absolutely appalled that I out bits in his food...kept them in his cheek, the spat them out around the house.........
Now...bits are good? Funny creatures!!
O's mom.

[ThomasMum]

I actually mashed his din-din. But you r right O's Mum, he's too young for the real spag bol (I didnt put any wine tho!)

Pls do don't be fret to give your recipes to us, even the Japanese-style ;)

Thomas'sMum

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Pls do don't be fret to give your recipes to us, even the Japanese-style ;)

Thomas'sMum

As you've asked: Gyoza and udon are a hit. Gyoza's are like Chinese dumplings stuffed with Lord know's what in a gow gee wrapper floated in miso soup with fat udon noodles. I reckon udon is better than spaghetti....but my monster will eat anything.....
H has been to a restaurant where the fish served was still gasping as they ate it....same with crayfish that walk off the plate. Another 'delicacy' is chicken (breast) cartilage.........but that's another thread!!
O's mom

[ThomasMum]

I reckon udon is better than spaghetti....but my monster will eat anything.....O's mom

Can't wait for Thomas's to try the real things! When its come to noodle oddles the udon is one of our fave! The Wagamama's udon menus are all yummos!

*drool*

[Funkychicken]

When my firstborn began on solids I made most of his meals following recipes from a great book called The Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner by Annabel Karmel. It was great and most of the recipes are basic to make. Another quick idea, especially now as all our summer fruits are coming around, is to puree melons such as canteloupe and honeydew and thicken them up a bit with baby cereal. My babes loved this. Happy cooking!

[lucyp]

Hey Thomas's mum!
I found that the good old Women's weekly - "Feeding Babies and Toddlers" was pretty good for recipes :) Also Robin Barkers book has some OK things in it too..... have fun! My DSs has just discovered the joys of ricotta - he will eat anything -if its mixed with ricotta or avocado!

[ThomasMum]

Thanks for the info Sal008, I went to visit her site Annabel Karmel, its pretty cool, check it out if you havent been there!
Its called Annabel Karmel.Com (http://www.annabelkarmel.com/)

Thanks also for the great stuff lucyp, my dear neighbour (he he). Oh I must try the ricotta and avocado stuff. I'm still not "brave" with the solid. Thomas loves his food tho, gee he can eat alright!

Thanks once again!

Thomas'sMum