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I've gradually worked my way up gradually with our 7-month old. We started with just lunch and fruit and veg, then I started adding toast fingers with various things on them, and have now started occasionally making more of effort with things like scrambled egg and thing I have made in advance (e.g. a couple of days this week he had some courgette and mozzarella balls from the River Cottage Baby and Toddler Recipe book). I roast a bunch of veg at the weekend as a standby and he has yoghurt or fromage frais for dessert on spoons that I hand him. We added in breakfast and tea at some point. Tea is just a couple of rice cakes at the moment. Breakfast is usually banana or other fruit followed by cereal of some description, currently shredded wheat.
I think it's a balance between working out what you can cope with but going at with enough gusto that they do actually get used to the whole idea of eating.
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Date: 2011-06-25 10:31 am (UTC)I've gradually worked my way up gradually with our 7-month old. We started with just lunch and fruit and veg, then I started adding toast fingers with various things on them, and have now started occasionally making more of effort with things like scrambled egg and thing I have made in advance (e.g. a couple of days this week he had some courgette and mozzarella balls from the River Cottage Baby and Toddler Recipe book). I roast a bunch of veg at the weekend as a standby and he has yoghurt or fromage frais for dessert on spoons that I hand him. We added in breakfast and tea at some point. Tea is just a couple of rice cakes at the moment. Breakfast is usually banana or other fruit followed by cereal of some description, currently shredded wheat.
I think it's a balance between working out what you can cope with but going at with enough gusto that they do actually get used to the whole idea of eating.