BLW- ideas

[babybchbum]

Owen has been on purees but we fast tracked him to level 3 foods bc he loves to mash things in his mouth.

My original goal was to do BLW and that fell through when I have into my husband.

Now we are working on offering a variety of foods and textures so what are the foods you started with and what did your babies love the most.

Owen had rice and real chicken yesterday night and liked it. I offered green beans as well and he didn't love them but ate them.

[sara76]

Amelia LOVED chopped up avocado and banana. Also cantelope, peas, steamed carrots, sweet potatoes and blueberries. The sweet potatoes are versatile. We started with purée but quickly started dicing, tossing in evoo and roasting. I'd add a different seasoning each time. She LOVED egg at 9 months bit we took it slow there. Once a week even though she could have eaten it all day long.

[sara76]

I'm all about the CAP lock lately for some reason.

[babybchbum]

Haha.

I'm scared to try seafood egg etc bc of allergies in my family.

I did banana slices today and he loved it. I think I will do swags and sweet potato next

[sara76]

Oh yeah if you have allergies hold off probably. We have no food allergies at all and I still held off on shellfish with Amelia because of the way she reacts to insect bites.

[etteyam]

I did straight up BLW with DD2 at 6 months. I started her on steamed broccoli. She would eat anything I put in front of her, but she especially loved sweet potato fries, bananas, steamed carrots.

[babybchbum]

Jan 13, 2014 14:20:14 GMT -5 etteyam said:

I did straight up BLW with DD2 at 6 months. I started her on steamed broccoli. She would eat anything I put in front of her, but she especially loved sweet potato fries, bananas, steamed carrots.

Good to know. I'm trying sweet potatoes tonight and broccoli tomorrow

[alzi]

Alex loves melon. I give her hunks of canteloupe honeydew, watermelon. Pieces of pealed grapes. Little pieces of tofu.

[babybchbum]

Avocado and egg plant have been hits!

[sara76]

I'm excited to start food with Ben! I had a lot of fun feeding Amelia.

[babybchbum]

Sara- I'm having a lot of fun feeding Owen too. Purees are no fun and we have texture issues with Triston but now that he sees Owen eating new stuff wins interested too

[surfbetty530]

BLW has made life SO much easier. Did you do it w your first? We did everything that was mentioned above and also steamed peas, diced baked apple & pears, and I'm sure there is more but I can't remember. Avocado, sweet potatoes, peas, chicken, salmon and broccoli were the main ones.

When we got the ok from ped, we also did scrambled eggs, and things w peanut butter (like toast cut into strips). GL!

[babybchbum]

No I did strictly purees with him encore going to table food. He has Autism so party of the food thing is sensory that we are slowly overcoming.