Baby led weaning typical food day

Today:
X1 Gluten Free Pancake with Smashed Raspberries on top
X4 Strawberries Chopped

Lunch: x2 Eggs, x2 cherry tomato for tomato scrambled egg and 1/2 avocado

Tonights Dinner:
Small portion of vegetable+chicken noodles and bit of rice

Breastfeed, then 30-60 minutes later breakfast- weetabix, fruit, toast with peanut butter, pancakes or eggs.

Lunch- left overs, sausage, eggs, toast, pancakes, fish fingers, veg and fruit.

Dinner- whatever we have but adjusted for babies; pastas, roast, fajitas, pizza (on tortilla wrap base), noodles, rice, chips.

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Breakfast: porridge with fruit (and sometimes spices like cinnamon or nutmeg) or nut butter (peanut or almond)

Lunch: normally either slice of toast with something spread on it or a 1 egg omelette with some veg in it, plus a bit of cheese or puffs or cucumber sticks, followed by half a banana or half an orange

Dinner: whatever we're having (adapted where necessary) - e.g. spaghetti bolognese, chilli, roast, egg fried rice, creamy pasta, noodles stir fry, curry, homemade burgers, homemade pizza, fish and potato and veg.

Breakfast - porridge mixed with banana and a teaspoon of peanut butter

Lunch - scrambled eggs and avocado, plus a smoothie pouch.

Dinner - mushed up cottage pie (our own dinner), bread with hummus, half a banana for dessert


I typically give her what we eat anyway. We had scrambled eggs for lunch so she got the same, same for dinner

My daughter is nowhere near this. She still has a very small appetite and mostly plays with her food.
Breakfast is usually 1/2 crumpets/toast/bagel with some fruit.

Lunch she's still not a fan of could be leftovers, pancake, some veggie crisps, raw veg like cucumber/tomato, maybe some fruit if she won't have anything else

Dinner is whatevr I'm making for dinner so some veg and usually a protein like fish/chicken and most nights a carb like pasta/couscous/rice and some fruit usually orange/tangerine/kiwi

Most of her food usually ends up on the floor, there's lots of chewing but very little swallowing! lots of spitting out. I've resigned myself to the fact that she'll start eating in quantity when she's ready but right now she's just exploring flavours and textures and that's ok

awww yeah, I should add to my comment that most days the food is on the floor, but that doesn't matter to me. She's become so good at coordination and chewing, so even the fact that she successfully took a bite out of some chicken is a huge win. You're right in highlighting that for many babes lots of food still ends up on the floor. We have a lot of waste too, but thankfully on most days she tastes and tries everything - so the hope is she is enjoying the idea of food and meals with us, so that as she grows older she has a positive association to meal times.

Our priority at the moment is exposing her to lots of textures and flavours, not filling her up.

... Not memories of mum force feeding her against her will.

Thank you ladies, much appreciated