Food portion sizes
What sort of portion size is everyone giving their 6 moths old? Are they finishing it all or leaving some, and are they one just the 1 meal per day?
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We've been following the 30 day plan in the "How to wean your baby book" by Charlotte Stirling-Reed and our little girl is HATING it š we're almost at the end and i think she's successfully chewed and swallowed maybe 4 of the foods we've done so god knows what will happen when we try going on to two meals a day š
BUT! They say "food before one should be fun" - their main source of food will still be milk at this point so don't stress too much! X
My little one does 35g a day out of 90 usually half we stop when she's full
Thanks, I haven't heard of that book I'll look it up. My little boy loves his food he's eaten everything we've given him so far and sometimes clears his bowl (not always), was just interested to see how much people are giving and if I'm giving him enough or should offer more if he finishes it.
Hopefully she'll start to enjoy food soon! š
I dont measure, he just gets a small amount of what we have. He doesnt often finish his plate, but sometimes he will - but i don't particularly care whether he finishes. My 3 year old rarely finishes his meals either.
Yesterday I gave our baby two strips of chicken thigh, a tbsp of rice and two pieces of tenderstem broccoli. He ate about half.
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My little boy is almost 7 months and we started weaning slightly early, so heās probably been eating now for just over a month! Weāve tried to make it so he eats as similarly to us as possible - for example at the start he ate the raw/basic ingredients of our meals like if we had fajitas heād have avocado and plain roasted versions of the veg. Now heās moved on to no salt versions of what we eat and is loving it!
Tomorrow, Iām making veggie fish tacos but I make them with fake fish fingers lol, on Yuka they score 75/100 and have less than 1g of salt (only just) but obviously they are UPF, would you give it?? We eat very little food that we donāt make from scratch so it would really be a one off. I have tofu in as a back up so it still looks like our food(ish), I feel like Iām going crazy and Iām so worried of him not ending up with a good relationship with food š«£
Iāve added a picture of his lil meal from tonight which was all from scratch just to make me feel better š
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