Baby Food

Question: Homemade baby food makers, what do you feed your 8 month old?

(Posted by: Jaiden's Mommy on 2009-03-10 16:17:29)

Moms who make your own food, what kind of foods are you feeding your 8 month old now? I use http:/ / www.wholesomebabyfood.com so I'm aware of what foods you CAN feed, I'm just wondering what you DO feed. We are both full time parents whose schedules are wacky at times, so our daughter does not always get solids each night. She has been introduced to bananas, avocados, sweet potatoes, apple sauce, and carrots. She can't do finger foods to terrible well just yet, but she is doing great at chewing with all 6 of her teeth O_O

Posted by: MissS x on 2009-03-10, 16:26:57

Hi, my son is 7 months ol now and i have him in this routine: 8am 180ml sma gold 11.30 carrot and swede blended with apple cream after and 80ml sma gold 3pm 180ml sma gold 6.30 mixed veg blended then a yoghurt or rusk mixed with water and 80ml sma gold 9pm 180ml sma gold he does really well on these and sleeps solidly after his last bottle until 8am so works for us. a really god book to help is lorraine kellys weaning book its loads of useful recipies and is great from birth onwards xx

Posted by: Ember Halo on 2009-03-10, 16:29:10

At 8 months my baby was doing finger foods almost exclusively. she ate pretty much anything we did (sans allergens & chocking hazards). she got 3 meals a day.

Posted by: Do your own thinking! on 2009-03-10, 16:41:18

We did all self-feeding from the get-go, and at that age it was still a lot of steamed veg, a great deal of asparagus, also a lot of cold salad veg like cucumber and tomato, and toast and oatcakes and so on with hummus and tzatziki smeared on. There was some fumbling with a spoon with thick stuff like oatmeal and refried beans. May as well just give her what you're eating and let her shove it in -- really no point to 'baby food' or doing it for her, and much more fun for all concerned to just relax and share the meals rather than do, er, like the first answerer with a schedule and measured amounts.

Posted by: ILoveMyBabyPrincess on 2009-03-10, 18:10:28

I give jarred and my own and i give her my homemade steamed pureed carrots and green apples only so far.

Posted by: ♥♥Cheeky Monkeys Mumma♥♥ on 2009-03-10, 21:00:07

By the time Charleigh was 8 months she had eaten almost everything so i had no worries about allergies (except egg and honey and nuts), so she would have cereal with apple puree for breakfast, mashed vegies for lunch yogurt for afternoon tea and usually either a puree of chicken/ beef and veg or soups such as minestrone, chicken and veg or pumpkin but one of her fav dinner meals was pumpkin, sweet potato, parsnip and potatoe chips/ fries.....i used to cut par boiled pieces of these vegies into thick fingers spray them with olive oil spray and over bake until they were golden she would eat a whole bowl full.......actually i think i might see if she still likes them :)