My Little Muncher: 2016

Weening my son has been an interesting journey so far, I am extremely fortunate that he loves his food and tries everything I put in front of him. I love watching his little face light up as he tastes something new for the first time, it's just wonderful! It is important to me that Theodore gets a varied, healthy diet full of different flavours and so I cook him everything from Indian spicy fish curries to Italian chicken with pesto and Chinese chicken noodles. I am determined that Theodore will not be a fussy eater and so far it's paid off. His diet includes all kinds of meat, fish and vegetables with gentle spices and herbs to tickle his tastebuds.

I follow a mix of baby led weening and traditional weening. Offering Theo some finger foods with each meal as well as a main course and dessert item which I feed him with a spoon.

This blog is really for me to record what I am feeding Theodore so that I can look back at our journey. However, I hope it gives some inspiration to others on how to make weening your baby a fun and interesting journey. All the dishes on here are aimed at 7 months plus. Theodore does not have any food allergies as yet and so I urge you to be cautious when weening and ensure that when you cook with allergy foods such as nuts or shellfish, that you do so with caution. Also please ensure you check fish thoroughly for bones etc before cooking for your little ones.

Some of my recipes can be found on my recipe blog; http://ramshalleat.blogspot.co.uk/

Monday, 12 September 2016

Dinner 12/09/2016

•Steamed asparagus & broccoli

•Cheesy bread

•My homemade super veggies & beef bolognaise

•Raspberry & strawberries

•Full fat natural yoghurt

Lunch 12/08/2016

•Steamed asparagus & broccoli sticks

•Slice of tomato, cube of low salt feta cheese and a piece of lambs lettuce

•My homemade vegetable dhal

•Full fat natural yoghurt with smashed raspberry

•Blackberry & strawberry

Monday, 22 August 2016

Lunch 22/08/2016

•Steamed sweet potato sticks

•Steamed courgette sticks

•Lamb tagine with vegetables and almonds

•Sainsburys own full fat Greek yoghurt with mashed banana

•Strawberries

Breakfast 22/08/2016

•White pita bread with Meridian peanut butter

•Porridge made with oats, whole milk and chopped banana

•Blueberries and strawberries

Saturday, 20 August 2016

Lunch 20/08/2016

•Tofu sticks (which I coated in flour and gently fried in olive oil until golden)

•Oven roasted new potato

•Vegetables & tofu (steamed and mashed sweet potato, carrot, red cabbage, onion, kale, red pepper and broccoli mixed with broken tofu pieces)

•Pineapple & strawberries

Breakfast 20/08/2016

•Pineapple & strawberries

•Wheetabix with warm whole milk

Friday, 19 August 2016

Lunch 19/08/2016

•Roasted new potato wedges (simply oven roasted in a little olive oil)

•Cooked king prawn to chew on

•Sardine & tomato pasta

•Strawberries & blueberries

Thursday, 18 August 2016

Breakfast 18/08/2016

•Omelette

•A handful of mini shredded wheat with warm milk

•Golden kiwi fruit and pineapple

Wednesday, 17 August 2016

Breakfast 17/07/2016

•White toast & peanut butter

•Porridge with vanilla

•Blueberries & strawberries

Sunday, 14 August 2016

Dinner 14/08/2016

•Steamed baby courgette

•A little lamb burger (lamb mince fashioned in to a short finger and gently fried until thoroughly cooked, cooled to room temperature)

•The 'Ella's Kitchen' purple cookbook sardines pasta for a ten month old baby. I really love this cookbook it's got some great recipes in it!

•Sainsburys own full fat natural yoghurt with a drop of vanilla bean paste mixed in to it

•Blackberries

Breakfast 14/07/2016

•Orange slice cut in to quarters

•Blackberries

•Wheetabix with whole milk

Saturday, 13 August 2016

Lunch 13/07/2016

•Broccoli & courgette sticks (steamed)

•A small piece of cheese on toast

•My homemade 9 vegetables & lentil curried dhal

•Sainsburys own full fat yoghurt with smashed up strawberry & blueberries

•Banana stick

Friday, 12 August 2016

Breakfast 13/08/2016

•Banana

•Blackberries

•Porridge made with oats, whole milk, and mashed blueberries & strawberries

Thursday, 11 August 2016

Breakfast 12/07/2016

•Banana

•Blackberry

•Weetabix with full fat cows milk

Dinner 11/07/2016

•Steamed baby courgette

•Steamed broccoli florets

•Grissini stick with creamed cheese

•A simple bowl of steamed (equal quantities) potato, carrot, parsnip, turnip, courgette, tomato

•Blackberries

•Yoghurt

Lunch 11/07/2016

•Half a steamed baby courgette

•Steamed broccoli florets

•A simple bowl of steamed (equal quantities) potato, carrot, parsnip, turnip, courgette, tomato

•Half a low sodium thyme cheese biscuit

•Red & green grapes cut in half

•Sainsbury own full fat natural yoghurt

•Heinz mango baby biscotti biscuit

Wednesday, 3 August 2016

Breakfast 03/08/2016

•Omelette made with 1 whisked "Happy Egg" microwaved for 1 minute until set then cut in to strips.

•1 Wheetabix with warned full fat Cravendale milk stirred until it's mushy

•Red & white grapes cut in half

Monday, 1 August 2016

Dinner 01/08/2016

•Steamed green beans

•Breadstick & houmous

•Salmon fish finger - my recipe is here http://ramshalleat.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1

•Homemade veggies, quiona and cheese

•Yoghurt

•Banana

Sunday, 24 July 2016

Breakfast 25/07/2016

•Blueberry pancake - the recipe is on my recipe blog http://ramshalleat.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1

•Banana porridge made with whole milk

•Strawberry

•Tangerine

Saturday, 23 July 2016

Breakfasr 23/07/2016

•Blueberry pancakes - recipe is here http://ramshalleat.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/baby-blueberry-pancakes.html?m=1

•Strawberries

Friday, 22 July 2016

Lunch 22/07/2016

•Salad of couscous with chopped tomato, basil and chopped cooked prawns.

•Broccoli stick

•Strawberry, tangerine & blueberries

Breakfast 22/07/2016

•Eggy bread

•Yeo Valley full fat natural yoghurt with forest fruits

•Half a banana

•Strawberry & blueberry

Thursday, 21 July 2016

Dinner 21/07/2016

•Steamed broccoli

•Oven cooked white potato wedges

•Salmon, veggies & cannellini bean stew

•Strawberries

•Blueberries

Lunch 21/07/2016

•Homemade oven cooked white potato wedges

•Steamed courgette stick

•My homemade chicken, vegetables & pesto

•Yeo valley full fat yoghurt

•Half a banana

•Blueberries

Breakfast 21/07/2016

•eggy bread; my recipe is here http://ramshalleat.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1

•strawberries and tangerine

Monday, 11 July 2016

Lunch 11/06/2016

I've not been blogging much recently because I've been in Spain visiting my mother and in the kitchen inventing new recipes for Theodore to try. Here's two brilliant ones!

• Spinach & cheese samosas recipe is here http://ramshalleat.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1

•Steamed courgette stick

•Fish noodles

•Coconut & mango rice pudding recipe is here http://ramshalleat.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1