Hermione much prefers to feed herself to being fed.

Does anyone have any sites with ideas on foods and how to cut and serve the food. She's just eaten broccoli, cauliflower and carrots.

I don't have any sites but you can basically give her anything cut in any way. I found fingers of pineapple and melon good. Chicken works well cut into slithers. Boiled potatoes can be cut up. Baby sweetcorn works well and its already finger food size. Erm we used to give toast in slices. I used to make pizza occasionally and give him a bit although probably not until he'd been eating for a bit. Pear worked well chopped up and so did cheese. I posted on here when he was about 7 months asking what else I could give him and listing the foods. Will see if I can find it for you

http://www.babiesandall.com/t12849-what-else-can-i-give-him

There you go. This was the list of food I was giving him by 7 months. HTH

Thank you

Egg works well as well. Even from early on I hard boiled them or made omlettes

Loo I'll try that. I'm making French toast for brekkie for her then banana on toast the next day.

Was stuck on things like meat, cheese and eggs. What cheese can I give her? And what meat and should it be cooked until it falls apart?

The hv told me to stick with chicken to begin with as that's the easiest for them to digest but we moved fairly quickly to everything else. We cooked it until it was fairly tender but not falling apart. We just gave him cheddar. I have a feeling they're not supposed to have things like brie but could have things like red leicester. He used to love the babybels and they were useful for taking out.

I stressed about it a bit for the first 6 weeks or so but then I just started trying him with what he wanted. He tended to want a bit of whatever we were eating so had some of that. He had bits of sausage meat and things like that.

If you have fish you're probably better giving her that than fishfingers because by the time you take the outside off they just fall apart. I just don't really eat fish but do eat them so I had them.

I would just try her with anything and see how she gets on. It doesn't matter what she eats at the moment as she's still getting her goodness from milk. Mind you, haven't you been weaning for a while so she's probably better. We didn't start Jamie until he was 6 months as there's so many allergies in our family and certainly for the first few weeks he didn't really swallow anything.

I'm fairly certain the only things they can't have are certain cheeses, honey and whole nuts and only 1g of salt and you'll know all that anyway from before.

Thank you. She's been having home pured food since 4 months. But she's always preferred finger foods. If we eat together she likes to eat finger foods. She's been on jars this week stage two as I wante to see if she was ready for lumps and she is, so want to do the baby led weaning now.

Though she ate a fair size piece of broccoli, cauliflower and carrott oh and pasta for tea, then polished of a stage 2 jar. But I think that's cos she's not eaten much today because of her teeth (second has just come through)

We use things like pasta tubes in sauce, bits of cheese, most veggies you can cut into sticks like carrots, brocolli, cauliflower, potato (also give her mash and let her dig in its hysterical), fruit like melon pear, banana etc

TBH i tend to just make awen what we are having and wang it on the highchair tray and leave her to get on with it. Lunch today she had cheese, ham and mushroom omelette then had 2 fans of watermelon and a stick of pineapple. She also likes bread dunked in soup and handed to her and if we go to a harvester etc she has a bit of anything we are having plus a bowl from the salad bar (she LOVES beetroot and slices of tomato). I started her at 5 months with BLW so by 7 months i wasnt giving seperate foods to watch for allergy anymore just normal meals. Spag bol is a good one to watch!

Yeah spag bol is fun. Casserole is too

we are having spag bowl tonight so i'm going to strip her down to her nappy for that.

She's just demolished a whole boiled egg (bar yolk), two browan bread crusts and some cheese