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Kidney beans to babies

How to serve kidney beans to 14 months old? Just wondering about the skin

Incognito
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Do your partners like to eat all of your children’s snacks? 😂

Snacks in the household is for everyone but he’s been finishing them lately and there’s me thinking we had some more when reaching out for snacks for our daughter. Sounds so pathetic lmaooo but I literally have to top up yoghurt and ESPECIALLY the simple mills crackers every couple of days and from now on moving for...

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Picky Eater HELP

Any advice for picky eaters? I know it’s pretty typical for this age but man it’s hard. He just wants to live off berries, yogurt and snacks. He really does not want to try new things at all. Any tips?

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Breakfast

Peanut butter & oat pancake, mango rolled in coconut and Greek yogurt ice lolly.

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Food

Anyone having luck with solids? I am a nervous FTM trying to start solids with my son!

J
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BLW

I’ve tried looking at a couple videos but they’re all pretty different, how would you serve spaghetti to your 6 month old?? Or should I not..? He’s 6m and we don’t do BLW everyday so I’m just curious if it’s a good idea or not, or if I should just give something else.

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Ideas please!

Hiya lovely ladies Been doing homemade purees for a few weeks now and feeling ready to tackle some BLW. so far we've only done omelette strips, Cucumber and tomato Anyone got any things they'd reccomend especially things I can prep and put in the fridge / freezer. I'm big on meal prep as I find making things dail...

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What I offered my 13mo vs what he ate.

Breakfast Offered - porridge, toast and a banana Ate - 6 spoons of porridge and the banana Lunch Offered - Chicken and carrot muffin, grated cheese, cucumber sticks, apple yoghurt pouch, a plum cut into bite size, 2x sweetcorn melty ring Ate - one tiny bite of muffin, all the cheese, couple of bites of cucumber, ...

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What are your BF snacks?

Cause I’m just binging on kitkats! Help!

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Food before 1…

Keep seeing conflicting advice on feeding so…

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Refusing meals

What do you do if your toddler refuses a meal? Tonight my girl ate 3 pieces of pasta, and i don’t know whether to offer something else or just give her milk before bed?

Incognito
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Eating

I wish I could put anything in front of my toddler and he just eat it. Breakfast used to be good now it's just him saying no to everything that is offered. He will snack and eat those kinds of foods but what's wrong with having a breakfast and a sandwich some fruit for lunch. Followed by whatever I'm having in the ...

K
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What meals are we giving our babies

I feel so stuck on what to give him everyday, I want him to try a variety of food so he can get used to all different textures and tastes. I do both Baby led weaning and purres

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Eating handfuls of dirt

My one year old son gets to play outside supervised but I let him do his thing and watch my toddlers and him playing. He keeps finding small pots that have dirt in them and he will walk around with it in his hand just scooping dirt in his mouth he does it faster when he see me going towards him. Is he missing a mine...

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Nuts and nut butters

Has anyone introduced these yet and if so how did you do it and how did you stay calm? I’m about to introduce them to my LG and I’m a little scared especially after finding out she’s got a dairy allergy 😩

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Baby off solids when ill

Baby has been ill for a week and all he wants is purée or pouches. Should I worry?

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Anybody else’s kid eat like a grown man?

My sis in law was babysitting for me yesterday and was astonished by the amount of food my tiny girl can put away. She’s very tall but honestly, she doesn’t look the amount she eats lol. She said none of her kids could have ever had a portion my LG has & was so gobsmacked. Not in a bad way, I think she was so confus...

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13 month old hardly eating!

PLEASE tell me it’s not just me??? My LB has totally been off food for at least 2 weeks! He’s gone from eating everything we gave him to throwing everything on the floor - even his favourite fruits 🫠 I’ve even putting our lunch on the same plates and pretending like I’m feeding him my food!! Pleaseee tell me it’s…

C
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Food

Anyone else’s toddler loves fish? I can’t eat any around him without him stealing some, but he won’t touch mash potatoes. By stealing I mean willingly giving my food to him because he’s adorable 🥰

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8 month old weaning recipes /ideas

Hi, I keep making my girl the same stuff which is fine cause she loves it but wanted to introduce some new meals for her. She isn't BLW and has mashed food. Any ideas?

C
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