Meal ideas 🙏🏻

Can anyone help by sharing their go to meals? I feel like I’m stuck in a bit of a rut making the same things over and over, and I’m struggling to come up with new, baby safe meals that we can all eat.

My little boy still doesn’t eat very much, which makes it harder because I tend to fall back on foods I know he’ll eat (spag bol, macaroni, risotto, cottage pie). I’ve tried offering more finger foods, but most of it ends up on the floor, and I worry about choking with a lot of options.

For breakfast, the only thing he’ll reliably eat is Greek yoghurt. I’ve tried porridge, but he’ll have one spoonful and then refuse the rest. Same thing when I try mixing fruit into his yogurt. For lunch, I usually give leftovers from the night before.

He also has a soy allergy.

Any suggestions would be really appreciated. Thank you in advance! 😊

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Feel free to have a look at my IG profile where I share meals I make for my little girl :) Dinky.dinners. Hope it will help a bit 🤍

My little boy is like this too!

Will only take yoghurt at breakfast. And will categorically not pick any food up, hes 100% spoon fed! He refused any food until 9 months and its took forever to get him where we are today!

We are CMPA and I struggle with foods for him! X

I use a really good app called baby lead weaning cookbook. It costs £5,99 to download but has absolutely loads of ideas for each meal

For breakfast have you tried ready break with something he likes mixed in, fruit or peanut butter as it’s thinner than porridge?
Or we do toast or even wheatabix .
Lunch is always a struggle and a rush but something like pasta or rice and dinners just whatever we have but sometimes modified.
My boy has CMPA so I understand the struggle and keep doing the same foods. He’s always so fussy x

Breakfast and lunch are quite boring for us. Usually oats, yogurt, fruit, pancakes. Lunch is usually toast or leftovers.

Some dinners I’ve planned this week - hope it can help

- fish, chips and green veg (basa grilled in oven with butter, garlic and herbs, chips in airfryer. Steamed peas and broccoli for baby), grilled veg for us.
- beef and veggie soup - can serve with buttery toast. Will use low salt stock cubes and blitz up a bit if necessary
- red pesto, chorizo and goats cheese pasta (took the chorizo out for baby - a bit more salty meal than I’d like but balanced over rest of the week)
- homemade meatballs, mash and steamed veg for baby (peas and broccoli again)
- chicken pot pie - will cook puff pastry separately for baby, again Blitz stew bit if needed
- chicken, paprika potatoes and veg tray bake
- pork belly chow mein (pork belly done in oven and chopped small with bought egg noodles - didn’t add chow mein sauce to his, can add peas as well)

He really just fits in with what we eat and I adjust it slightly. I do need to try make more baby bits but I struggle to find the time tbh!

A good pasta option is just cooking and blending whatever veg you have, add some cream cheese and tomato paste if it goes in a blender and use it as a pasta sauce for baby.

Breakfast we do - crumpets, porridge, toast with different toppings
Lunch - scrambled egg, toast with different toppings, pinwheels or homemade sausage rolls
Dinners - pasta with pesto or avocado and cream cheese, sausage casserole, meatballs, beans on toast, homemade fishcakes, home made chicken burgers

I get a lot of recipes from instagram but also baby led weaning app

Breakfast - Sausages / cheese on toast/ waffles / crumpets
Lunch - boiled egg on toast / pizza crumpets / sausages rolls / ham sandwich
Dinner- chicken nuggets (homemade when possible), mash and veg / beef casserole / sausage and mash / spaghetti bolognese / cauliflower cheese gratins
Snacks - watermelon / mango / cucumber sticks/ organix crisps

My go to recipe book is what mama makes, currently trying to branch out to other meats atm she’s mainly had chicken which we shred

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