BLW recipes

Hi everyone so I’ve started my baby on weaning and I am struggling to find new recipes for him to have I am not a good cook anyway so I’ve just been giving him banana pancakes , toast , cucumber, broccoli and avocado things like that but I’m running out an ideas .
Can people please comment very easy recipes I can do for him 😁
Also any meals that I can prep and put in the freezer aswell will be a great help

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Omelettes, scrambled egg, cottage cheese white mashed fruit, anything potato based with veg in (made to fritters), porridge, wheatabix, sausages with veg, pasta with homemade sauces.

We give our kids basically what we eat just less salt, less spice and no honey before 1 x

Wow I never would have thought omelette and scrambled egg 🤦🏼‍♀️thank you , also what are fritters? Xxx

you can boil some potato (normal or sweet), with some carrots, broccoli etc, then mash it all together with a little grated cheese and/egg then mould the into any shape really (mozzarella stick size or like a burger) and then pop them in air fryer/oven or even fry them 🙂 x

there are lots of video tutorials on Facebook, type in baby led weaning ideas and then they will just keep popping up every day lol x

Moon & Rue: The Baby-Led Weaning Made Easy book is amazing, there is recipes recommended by age and they have weekly/monthly meal prep examples too x

Look at the baby led weaning cookbook app - also insta as she sometimes shares recipes on there. Everything’s like 5 ingredients or less x

Egg cups! Silicone cupcake holders in a cupcake tin, one egg, and whatever else you want to add!:) I’m sure you can look up an easy recipe as far as how long to cook them

https://eatingwithzion.com

always recommend this recipe book:

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59f75004f09ca48694070f3b/t/6399bc0f662238394803e28d/1671019543599/Eating+well+the+first+year+enlivened+for+web+14+Dec.pdf

These you can make into purees or a proper BLW meal but it’s a lot of combos I’ve written down in the first few months or weaning

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So I just wanted to come on here and sort of vent and get a non biased opinion. Me and my partner live with my parents to save some extra money to hopefully move out by the end of the year. My partner has been out of a job for 3 months, I gave him the benefit of the doubt the first 2 months but now i’m noticing he’s not really putting in the effort to look for a job. I work full time and on top of that, getting child care for our daughter, for him to be home ALL DAY play video games, smoke, shit, eat, sleep and repeat. It’s getting harder are the days go by, i have been coming home at 9 to find the room the same way it was when i left or find clothes piled up in a corner just to get it out of the way. I’m not asking him to cook me dinner or make me lunch. I just want help around the house and it seems like even the bare minimum is asking for alot. I’m debating alot if it’s best we stay together or separate. the reason that’s making me want to leave him is the fact he called his parents to tell him my parents are abusing him!! (by making him to chores around the house BTW) He’s not working, yet thinks doing house work/yard work is abusing him? making him a “slave” to my parents .. like bro ur not working, u don’t look after our daughter, u don’t actively look for work.. WHAT EXCUSE DO YOU HAVE?! Mind you, homeboy BEGGED and CRIED to my parents to let him move in with us because his parents were doing the same thing and “abusing” him by making him clean after “everyone” and they would actually physically abuse him. Now.. he’s claiming he’s forgiving his parents and now hates my parents for “abusing him” by making him do house work. I’m just so mad yall .. this has been happening for 3 months and my parents gave him until the end of june to find a job or he’s out.. i tried fighting and standing up for him but Im ready to give up.. should i or not? /:

I think I need Nanny 911

So my girl is very strong willed. There is no telling her nothing. She wants what she wants when she wants and how she wants.

My mum said I used to be like this too when I was younger. None of my siblings were. No matter how many times I got spanked or told off I just wouldnt listen and do it again. I'm Caribbean so I didnt come from a gentle parenting background either, I was just very strong willed.

Any who going back to my daughter. She is 2.5. Peak of tantrum phases, hits, bites, shouts, wants her way.

We have tried Everything! Nothing works. Nursery are having a hard time also. (to clarify we don't spank her)

Whats crazy is she never used to be like this. It's once she started nursery there was a shift in behaviour.

She had the biggest meltdown on he plane the other day. (Like we were those parents. Trying to calm her and correct her behaviour while other looked in horror!!!)

Any tips?
What can I do?

Does your husband help at all around the house?

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