This week we tried spaghetti for the first time (definitely need to cut this up smaller for our next attempt as she really wasn’t happy about it!) and also tried fish, which Clara seemed to quite enjoy.
Weaning – week 8
This week we tried egg again, although we only used the yolk this time in order to determine if Clara will have an allergic reaction to it. I hard boiled it and then mashed it up with a bit of avocado and she loved it! No vomiting this time so we will test the egg white again soon to see if that sets her off, otherwise it may have been a false alarm which would be nice. We have also tried out buttered toast fingers, peanut butter, rice cakes, chicken and lamb for the first time so it has been a pretty adventurous week!
Weaning – week 7
This week Clara continued to try new foods, including some Organix red pepper hearts corn puffs (which she loved, and were great as they completely disintegrated in her mouth so I was less paranoid about her choking on these!). She also tried Organix multigrain mini cereal puffs, although given that she is still struggling to get along with the porridge, I think this was a step too far as it is basically all of the lumps from the porridge taken out and combined in one packet! Definitely going to need a little bit more work with this one.
Weaning – week 2
Week two of Clara on solids done and dusted and we are starting to get quite a stockpile of foods for her prepped and ready in the freezer! I’m finding it really convenient to have a couple of days where I cook up quite a few purees and have a freezing session as it means that there are always meals on hand in the freezer for any times when I don’t have the time to prepare something from scratch. I imagine this will become invaluable once Clara is onto two or three meals a day as well!
Weaning – day 7
So we have come to the end of our first week and today’s food was pea puree. I sieved this one to make sure there were no tough skins in it and ended up with a lovely smooth vivid green puree which Clara loved.
Weaning – day 6
Today was my favourite (and Jamie’s worst nightmare)… avocado! This was also definitely the easiest to prepare so far as well as no cooking or blending was involved – it was just a case of simply mashing it up to a puree with a fork. I did thin it down a little bit with some breast milk just to make it a bit smoother and easier for Clara to eat as it was slightly underripe, but other than this it was good to go!
Weaning – day 5
On to day 5 of solids and today we gave cabbage a go. I hadn’t steamed cabbage before but will definitely do this again in future as it was so quick! I managed to get this one to a really good consistency that I was happy with, although I did strain it through a sieve just to make sure that there were no stringy fibrous pieces left in it so it was very smooth (I also did this for yesterday’s green beans too).
Weaning – day 4
On today’s menu was green bean puree. Clara had been in a bit of a funny mood today – acting a bit erratically and having quite a few teething ‘moments’ so we were a bit unsure how dinner would go this evening and to be honest it wasn’t particularly successful. She pretty much turned her nose up at the food and just wasn’t really in the mood to hold the spoon so we kept meal time pretty short. We helped her to have a bit of a taste of it and a sip of water but we got her back out of her high chair soon after as she was about to kick off! Guess we will go back to green beans again at a later date!!
Weaning – day 3
Today I made cauliflower puree for Clara’s dinner which went down a treat. I’m loving making her food every evening so far, although obviously at this stage the ‘meals’ I am making her are very simplistic and just require a steamer and a hand blender. It’s great fun to put something on the table in front of her and watch her expressions to see what she makes of it and it has also increased the amount of veg that we are eating as a family too as I am having to find plenty of creative ways to use up the leftovers. Everyone’s a winner!
Weaning – day 2
Moving on to broccoli today – this was a bit trickier to prepare than the potato yesterday as it needed blending in order to get it into a puree as opposed to a bit of fork mashing and I struggled to find a suitable container to put the broccoli into in order to use the hand blender on it as it was such a small quantity. In the end, I shoved it in a cup which seemed to do the trick, albeit with a bit of splashback!