BLW recipes for 8 month old

[Jaimee]

We practice baby-led weaning with our 8 month old= feeding him slices of whole foods and letting him self-feed. now that his repertoire has expanded I'd like to branch out and start making some prepared foods for him to eat. But, I am a bit at a loss as to what I can cook/bake for him since we have not introduced many grains or eggs. I'm thinking there has got to be something creative I can make with what we have given him.

Any ideas with the following food items? Some sort of fritters or pancake type items that he could self-feed?

Pear
Carrot (cooked)
Avocado
Quinoa
Tapioca
Yogurt
Sweet potato
Blueberries
Zucchini

Thanks!!

[tzs]

we did blw albeit without actually reading the book but dd just ate what we ate. there were times, very rarely, that what we were having wasn't appropriate (caesar salad being an obvious one) or that i felt like she needed something "more" as in more veggies or something.
i think your idea of pancake type thing is on the right track. you can make potato pancakes/latkes with lots of different combinations although i don;t know how to do it without the egg....or the flour. maybe you could do just the yolks if you're concerned. and then the frying in olive oil would add good fats.

i've had them substituting potatoes with:
sweet potatoes
zucchini/carrot
carrot/apple

i've also had sweet potato kugel with just mashed sweet potatoes, egg, brown sugar (but you could omit) and then bake. it makes sort of a more solid pudding.

you can always freeze yogurt or fruit purees (either plain, mixed with yogurt, or mixed with coconut milk...yum) into popsicles that they can self feed. that's how i git rid of alot of purees that we had.

have you done any flour? i also made muffins with alot of this stuff. sweet potato/cranberry was the most vitamin packed. you could also do carrot/apple, zucchini. plus they're easy to freeze and pop out for breakfast/snacks.

[noobmom]

I fed DD cubes of avocado or sweet potato. She did fine with it. You could also make sweet potato fries (baked in the oven with some EVOO).

Mostly I just feed her whatever we're having in small bits. If the bits are too small for her to pick up I put the in her mouth, which I guess isn't very BLW. The only things I really do that with is meats because she can't really chew up a cube of steak or a chunk of chicken. So I do tiny bits or shreds of those.

I've also given her a spoon coated with whatever and let her just lick/suck it clean.

[Jaimee]

We haven't introduced wheat flour yet and don't plan to for several more months (maybe around one year). My daughter had a LOT of food allergy issues when she was an infant and I do not want to repeat that. So we have been very careful about the foods we introduce to baby #2. That means we can't just feed him off our plates and I won't be able to make gluten baked goods for a little bit. I can experiment with GF flours in a months or so, but I wanted to figure something out for now. I don't have a lot of experience with tapioca, but thought maybe it could help hold things together. Maybe I'll try some baked sweet potato, tapioca, quinoa fritters or something...

[Kmama2]

How about rice pasta?
We do baby led weaning too but I think the beauty of it is just feeding ds whatever we are eating. Chicken, pasta, rice, steak, steamed veggies, slices of fruit. Cheese, yogurt. etc.

[illumini]

Beans! We love beans around here!

[Jaimee]

I'm not doing rice just yet, no beans either. Those will come in the next few months. With food-allergy prone kids, you've got to go slow with the introductions. So, the list of foods in my original post is what I've got to work with for now. Any ideas with those?

[Knitting Mama]

How about regular seasonings? Zucchini and sweet potatoes roasted in the oven with seasonings are great finger foods.

Check this recipe out. It calls for a lot of different flours, but if you buy them and store them well, you'll have them for a long time.

[hapersmion]

You could do a stir-fry type thing, with quinoa and zucchini and carrots, maybe sweet potato, all tossed together.

Pear-and-blueberry yogurt parfait?

You could even get crazy and do some kind of sandwich, with zucchini for the bread and avocado paste in between, if the baby can chew that well.

[paxye]

I have never read anything, but I started BLW with my first 8 years ago when everyone thought it was weird...

We were seeing a doctor at the time and he had said not just give him what we were eating, so that is what we have done.... With all four we just give them bits of what we are eating at that time...

We have never went out of the way to make separate foods...

[Jaimee]

Originally Posted by noobmom

Mostly I just feed her whatever we're having in small bits.

Originally Posted by paxye

We were seeing a doctor at the time and he had said not just give him what we were eating, so that is what we have done.... With all four we just give them bits of what we are eating at that time...

We have never went out of the way to make separate foods...

It would be nice to do this and I think it's great that your LO's could handle it, but with allergy prone kiddos this just isn't a good idea. It's important to feed low allergenic foods one at a time and slowly move up the allergy scale. This way I can spot any reactions easily and eliminate the offending food. I might x-post this in the allergy section now that I'm talking about it!

[Jelinifer]

You might want to check the vegan/vegetarian threads too.... some of those folks have more experience with using tapioca as a binder and you'd probably be able to make some good muffin-type things using quinoa, yogurt and purees of some of the fruits you have listed...

[paxye]

Originally Posted by Jaimee

It would be nice to do this and I think it's great that your LO's could handle it, but with allergy prone kiddos this just isn't a good idea. It's important to feed low allergenic foods one at a time and slowly move up the allergy scale. This way I can spot any reactions easily and eliminate the offending food. I might x-post this in the allergy section now that I'm talking about it!

We do actually have allergies here also