8 month old solids

Hi ladies. At the risk of sounding stupid... if I wanted to give my baby ( 8 months) what we eat, can I literally just blend it (or do BLW)? For example we add lots of garlic and onion to our meals... is he OK to have those? I have been doing purees and offering finger foods up until now but would love him to start enjoying our meals. Any help would be appreciated. From a confused first time Mum šŸ˜‚ā¤

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Same as Tash. We don't leave salt out but use minimum and same with other seasoning and ingredients ( garlic mushrooms was a big hit haha ) x

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Oh yeh babe we just keep seasoning to minimum and mine ate everything

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Thanks so much ladies. I'm gonna go for it. Hoping he enjoys our meals šŸ˜

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Hi yes you can give him anything my baby eats spicy food and she is okay with it also I use a lot of garlic and onions whilst cooking and she eats it just prefers food we eat then baby food and jars x

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my son has what we have and I just use less salt, we don't leave it out and we use all different herbs and spices.

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Hey
My 8 month old eats everything we eat I haven’t blended or gave baby jar food since he was 7 months
He litrually eats everything
We put seasoning and salt and pepper
Just don’t put salt on top of his dinner
And he loves it and is fine if he don’t like something or gagging on it or can’t swallow he will spit it out xx

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This is amazing thanks to all of you for commenting ā¤ Question though so if I made a curry for example, do I let him pick at it himself (hands, doesn't use a spoon yet) or spoon feed him myself? Do you guys just let them feed themselves no matter what it is? Xx

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Personally I would spoon feed that, but people strictly doing BLW wouldn't (with mine I do a mixture of self-feeding and spoon-feeding). My baby loves a veggie curry and rice!

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Spoon feed them soft things let them eat it on there own x

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I do baby led weaning and I let him tuck into every meal with his hands and gives him a spoon etc to hold and play with mostlyšŸ¤£ā€¦ I sometime will pre load the spoon and leave it on his plate for him to pick up! Only meals he will be spoon fed is soup, porridge etc but if he wants to use his hands I won’t stop him x

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My 8 month old has biryani and currys don’t blend them they shred the chicken and the rice she has whole. No choking or gagging so far. We use chilli, onions, garlic and ginger and a little salt, plus the other usual flavours in a curry no problems.

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I put in in front of her on the try and she feeds herself with her hands.

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*tray

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Yes!! Absolutely!
As long as you haven't put in a heap of salt or sugar and strictly no honey!!
Onion and garlic can cause some gassiness and tummy pain if they have too much or too often so just keep an eye out for that and if it starts bothering them, maybe cut it down a notch

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