BLW when out?

So the last couple of weeks I’ve transitioned my baby boy from only purees to BLW. He is still spoon fed porridge or weetabix or yoghurt most days for breakfast but all other meals are him self feeding finger size foods or pieces of food. It’s thankfully going really well but when I’m out during a mealtime I just take purée pouches and feed that to him! I’d prefer to take my own home cooked meals but I’m a bit confused. If I’m out all day I can’t exactly take a lunch/dinner box with meats and stuff as surely they should be stored in fridge? So I’m a bit confused. He actually loves the purée pouches but I’m just trying to prepare for when we start going out more often as I don’t want him having the pouches more often when we’re now BLW

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thank you for your reply! Oo what soup flask do you use if you don’t mind sharing? I’ve only ever given him unsalted fries when we’re out as I’m worried about the salt content in the rest of the food (he’s only 9 months) x

Whenever we go out I either take a pouch or blitz up our dinner, from the night before, and take it out in a flask. My little girl chucks so much, she thinks its funny, and I can only deal with that when we're in the house 😭 just do whatever works for you! I sometimes share my food with her if we're out but tbh, she's way more interested in looking around and I hate sharing haha 🤣 x x

Sometimes I’ll do a batch cook of things like cheese&broccoli scones, sweet potato croquettes, vegetable pastry pinwheels, etc. and then use them for lunches while out and about, plus take a pot of cucumber sticks/berries/cooked carrot sticks, etc. I have an insulated part of my baby bag where I keep the tuppaware and they tend to be foods that I know are okay for hours out of the fridge. Some BLW cookbooks and Facebook groups have handy batch cook finger food recipes… appreciate I probably won’t have time to do this once I’m back at work soon though 🤣

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