Baby loves her food!

We have been introducing Esme to new foods for about a week now. So far her favourites seem to be watery foods like melon and cucumber. I think it's because they are soft so she can get her gums in and suck out the juice.

melon boats

 As with my own diet, I've been struggling for breakfast ideas. So with a little bit of help from the internet I've found some great ideas for a BLW breakfast.

• Drop scones
• fruit and yoghurt
• toast
• raisin bread
• eggy bread
• Savoury flapjacks (follow link for recipe)
• bitesize shredded wheat (dry or with a little bit of milk soaked in)

We had drop scones this morning - which went down very well.

I was a bit worried about food waste while doing the BLW approach, but with the exception of meat, our chickens seem to enjoy polishing off the leftovers.

Baby led weaning

We went down the purée route when we started Thomas on solids. This time round I liked the idea of BLW, mostly because I'm lazy and couldn't be bothered boiling up veg to mash up.

The beauty of BLW is that we can all sit down as a family for mealtimes and Esme can eat (or gum) whatever we are having.

Esme's first meal: marmite toast fingers!


Today's lunch was sandwiches, fresh pear and banana.


Tonight's dinner will be chicken breasts, potatoes, broccoli, carrots and gravy. I can't wait to see her get her gums into that!

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