Weaning Diaries // Week 9

They say that babies are able to tell when they are full up, and therefore stop eating. I’m not sure that this rule applies for Florence because on Sunday lunchtime she was sitting in her highchair for one hour, ONE HOUR, just grazing through her lunch. 

Chris and I have bought another little under counter freezer because there just wasn't enough space for all of Florence's food in the others, which is quite ridiculous. However, of course I didn't stop when we had more space... I then filled the new freezer up with more delicious meals for Florence. Like previous, all of the meals are recipes from various Annabel Karmel books. When making this batch of food I made sure that it had a quite large lumps in so that she could get used to managing more textured food.

We introduced Florence to Red Meat in the middle of Week 9. You often hear that babies don't start off enjoying Red Meat as it has a richer flavor than other meats., but Florence enjoyed Beef Casserole (I'm starting to wonder whether there is anything that Florence won't eat!) 

We also let Florence try Peanut Butter this week. There are mixed opinions as to whether you should give peanuts to a child under a certain age. However, seeing as neither of our families have a history of allergies we didn't see a problem. Of course, she loved it! (Yuk!) 

Here is Florence's food diary for Week 9 -

  

Week 9	Breakfast – 9.00am	Lunch – 1.00pm	Dinner – 4.00pm	Bedtime – 7.00pm
Monday	Bottle Ready Brek with Pear and Raspberry  Purée	Bottle Sundried Tomato Pitta Bread Sticks and Cucumber	Bottle Salmon with Tomato and Sweet Potato Sauce	Bottle
Tuesday	Bottle Weetabix with Apricot Purée	Bottle Rice Cakes with Peanut Butter, Cooked Pasta, and Grated Cheese.	Bottle Creamy Chicken and Vegetables	Bottle
Wednesday	Bottle Yoghurt with Peach and Mango Purée	Bottle Pitta Bread, Cheese, and Tomatoes	Bottle Chicken Bolognese	Bottle
Thursday	Bottle Ready Brek with Pear and Strawberry   Purée	Bottle Rice Cakes, Ham, and Cheese Orange Segments and Raspberries,	Bottle *Pasta Stars and Macaroni Cheese Sauce Strawberries and Banana	Bottle
Friday	Bottle Weetbix with Blueberry and Mango  Purée	Bottle Breadsticks, Cucumber, and Quorn Tikka Strips	Bottle Beef and Carrot Casserole Apricot and Pear Purée	Bottle
Saturday	Bottle Yoghurt with Pear and Blackberry  Purée	Bottle Steamed Broccoli, Mangetout, and Carrots.	Bottle Creamy Chicken with Sweet Potato	Bottle
Sunday	Bottle Ready Brek with Apricot  Purée	Bottle Houmous and Grated Carrot Sandwich, Tomato, and Cucumber Pineapple and Blueberries	Bottle Pasta Stars with Tomato and Mascarpone Sauce Apple and Cherry Fruit Pot**	Bottle

  *The Pasta Stars we use are from Boots! There is no reason for us giving Florence Gluten Free pasta, we just couldn't get hold of any normal small pasta.

**I used to make all of Florence's fruit Purées but we have just started to use Organix Fruit Pots. The pots are made from 100% pure organic fruit with no added nasties so I really don't mind giving them to her. They come in many different flavours for variation and Organix also sell pots with small fruit pieces to add texture!

Weaning Diaries // Week 8

We started offering Florence fingers foods at the start of Week 8. Before this, I was spoon feeding her both Breakfast and Lunch. A few days previous we started to give her little pieces of food that we were eating and she really, really took to it so we decided to start offering her Fingers Foods for lunch instead of a Purée. This means that Florence has gone from two meals a day to three meals a day, what a little piglet! Towards the end of the week we started giving Florence a couple of cubes of Fruit Purée for pudding after her Dinner.

Here is Florence's food diary for Week 8 -

Week 8	Breakfast - 9.00am	Lunch – 1.00pm	Dinner – 4.00pm	Bedtime - 7.00pm
Monday	Bottle *Florence had an early Hospital appointment so we missed breakfast*	Bottle Philadelphia Sandwich, Cucumber, Cheese, and Strawberries	Bottle Butternut Squash, Pea, and Tomato Purée	Bottle
Tuesday	Bottle Ready Brek with Apple and Blackberry Purée	Bottle Rice Cakes	Bottle   Jacket Potato with Cheese and Sweetcorn	Bottle
Wednesday	Bottle Weetabix with Pear And Strawberry  Purée	Bottle Jam Sandwich, Ham, Cheese, Strawberries	Bottle One Pot Chicken	Bottle
Thursday	Bottle Yoghurt with Raspberry and Peach Purée	Bottle Tomato and Cheese Tortilla Pizza	Bottle Sweet Potato and Spinach Mash	Bottle
Friday	Bottle Ready Brek with Blueberry  Purée	Bottle Cooked pasta with Steamed Mixed Vegetables	Bottle Cheesy Fish Pie with Potato Apricot and Apple Purée	Bottle
Saturday	Bottle Weetbix with Strawberry and Peach  Purée	Bottle Bread Sticks, Philadelphia, Ham, Cucumber, and Tomato	Bottle Swede, Carrot, and Parsnip  Purée Apple and Raspberry  Purée	Bottle
Sunday	Bottle Yoghurt with Mango Purée	Bottle Philadelphia Sandwich, Cucumber, Organix Tomato Slices	Bottle Cheesy Mashed Potato with Tomatoes Strawberry and Blueberry Purée	Bottle