We honestly couldn't be more thrilled with our decision to do Baby Led Wean (BLW) with Peanut. It works for us. We are three months in and she eats (or at least tries!) absolutely everything except for honey, which she will eat at 12 months. We are now up to three meals a day along with nursing 5 times. 9 times of out 10 Peanut eats what we are eating, with the exception of weekday breakfast. My husband and I still drink green smoothies and will introduce them to Peanut when she gets better with using a straw. She is fantastic at feeding herself and using a sippy cup, but we tended to spoon feed her things like soups, oatmeal and apple sauce. Her fine motor skills are pretty strong and we attribute that to BLW. Her pincher grasp was developed by 8 months and makes the whole BLW thing a lot easier. We love being able to take her anywhere and not have to worry about packing food for her since she always eat what we eat. Today we took her out for lunch with us and she ate some of my fish tacos and had cheese and artichoke dip. I'll admit that I have a stash of cheerios in the diaper bag for emergency purposes. Here is a list of some of our favourite and easy meals;
Breakfast
Oatmeal mixed with unsweetened apple sauce or mashed banana sprinkled with cinnamon
French toast dipped in apple sauce or yogurt
peanut butter on whole wheat bread
Baby muffin (new item!)
Lunch
Deconstructed sandwiches (cheese squares, lunch meat, bread squares, avocado chunks)
chunky soups/stews (chunks removed onto highchair tray, stock spoon fed)
Cottage cheese
leftover dinner
Cubed cheese
Avocado
Dinner
Chili (chunks removed onto highchair tray, stock spoon fed)
roasted veggie chucks (sweet potatoes, squash, carrots, zucchini, onion, etc.)
Deconstructed tacos
crockpot meats (they are tender to eat)
Pasta
Pizza
Grilled cheese
Dessert
Cubed pears
Bananas and peanut butter
apple sauce
high fat Greek yogurt
Cubed oranges/clementine's
cheerios
k.bye.
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