Food!🤯

When you say you are not a great eater, what do you mean? Tbh I have found nutrition hard since birth but since giving food to baby, I’ve had to up my game so I just make one meal for us both. Yesterday as an example… Breakfast was weetabix with fruit. Lunch was a few chips off my plate while we had lunch out with a friend. Dinner was salmon, egg fried rice (home made) with broccoli, one cherry tomato and a few cucumber strips. He had some plain yoghurt with mashed raspberries after dinner.

Try the “how to wean your baby” or “what mummy makes” book. They were godsends with both of my boys

I've started giving baby smaller portions of whatever I've made for myself. Yesterday she had prawn curry and rice (the prawns were chopped up very small) for lunch and for dinner she had some of the beef stew my husband made with potato. Generally she and my 3 year old son will either have toast or weetabix with some fruit for breakfast together

Agree with Ayshe about those books, they have lots of recipes you can batch cook and freeze so that you have stuff readily available for when your not eating yourself. But we usually give her the same dinner as us each day.

Breakfast - overnight oats, porridge, scrambled eggs and pancakes, peanut butter on toast Lunch - leftover dinner from night before or things like smashed avocado and bananas, mashed potato with peas and broccoli Dinner - whatever we are having mashed up or finely chopped (e.g. last night we had chicken and rice)

I just give baby whatever I’m having, just served in a baby friendly way (he has a good pincer grip so I cut into bite size pieces now). I already follow a low salt diet, so that does make it a bit easier. He’ll eat everything - curry, beans on toast, chilli, pasta, eggs etc. If I’m really struggling toast is normally my go to, with some peanut butter or squashed fruit on top (in place of jam). Eggs are normally a quick one to prep too - either scrambled or as an omelette

I always prep dinner for a few days normally 1 portion for all of us that night, 1 portion in the fridge often lunch the next day and a portion in the freezer, I probably cook a fresh meal 3 times a week. Building a stock in the freezer is great so those days I can't be bothered I'm defrosting something and cooking rice or pasta etc to have with it. Also the slow cooker is great I shove it all in during the morning and it's ready for dinner, great for curries, stew, chilli etc

For dinner my baby tends to have what we have. I’ll save a few portions so I’ve got a freezer stash. She often then has what she had for dinner for lunch the next day. For breakfast she rotates between porridge, baby rice and scrambled egg. We are currently living in Falkland Islands which is rubbish for getting fresh food and so expensive so we stock up a lot of frozen and tinned veg. For fruit unless I can get apples and pears fresh I just use Ella’s pouches. It’s not ideal and I don’t like using pouches but it’s best for her to get some fruit in there. I just try not to overthink it and knowing I have a baby to feed and it’s easier her eating what we eat makes me think about my own nutrition. She’s had chilli, bolgnese, stirfry, curry, lasagne, chicken dinner, risotto all sorts really!

And how much are your babies actually eating, I don’t know if I’m offering to much or she just doesn’t eat much.

My baby eats loads (more than my 2 year old most days 🤯), however my first was barely eating anything at this stage. I think milk is still the priority, so I wouldn’t worry too much, just keep offering a variety of foods :)

@Em mine is the same! She eats so much more in terms of volume and variety than her 3 year old brother (she's currently stealing bites of his sandwich and apple while his back is turned 🤣)

I feed until she doesn’t want to feed anymore she often starts spitting it out. If she finishes off her food I’ll offer her fruit pouch or biscuits