Shepherds Pie - AT LAST

On Wednesday George had Cranberry wheats to start with. he was still creating after he had polished off a mahoosive owlful so I got him a banana for afters, he seemed to be a lot more satified after that!

Wednesday lunch consisted of Pasta leftovers from Tuesday night, we had had pasta and meatballs but George had Pasta and Pesto which went down well. He also had a pear for pudding.

Tea was a rather hurried affaor, occuring as it did before netball. He had sweet potato and parsnip wedges, although the 'snips were a bit hard so got left. For pudding he had some halved grapes which are always welcome!

Thursday saw George having wheats and banana again for breakfast, is there no end to this boys appetite?? Lunch was eaten at a friends house while sat on my knee, George excelled himself and ate sweet potato wedges, pear and plum, before throwing the rest of the bits on the floor, luckily Rach didn't seem to mind.

For Tea George had his first real meal (not that beef stew wasn;t real but you know what I mean). Finally he has tasted the Holy Grail that is shepherds pie. He had it without Gravy and brown sauce but still it went down quite well. The mince did make him gag a bit as although very small, and small enough to swallow, I think it was a bit rough on the way down!

Today Grandma and Grandad are back from France so who knows what delights he will have for lunch???

Things that have been happening

So, I know it looks as if George hasn't eaten for weeks and weeks but I promise you he has been having 3 meals a day everyday - and somedays he's managed 4!

We've been keeping a rigourous food diary on paper since I had to complete one for the dietician (which reminds me, I really must send that in..ooops) so I know exactly what George has been eating, rather than bore you all with the detailsI'll provide you with all the exciting highlights...Much like Match of the Day without the annoying commentary or analysis.

Breakfasts

George has mainly had mini shredded wheats for breakfast as they are a good size to handle, and he likes them. Prefences so far are for the blueberry ones but we're currently on day 1 of the cranberry ones so we'll see. Rice milk is the accompaniment to wheats and I must say I'm getting used to the taste too so it mustn't be too bad. On the days where we've not been organised enough to have not run out of wheats we have resorted to either toast or fruit combinations...George was going to have left over roast potatoes for breakfast morning again but he's since learnt the hard way that you have to be quick off the mark if you want left over roasties in this house!

Ooooh he must have had crumpets one day too as here he is from the 10th April having crumpet for the first time, with what appears to be a Blueberry Wheat chaser.

Lunches

George tends to have quick lunches but things he has had these past couple of weeks include Pasta with a homemade sauce, crumpets, fruit and veg. He has had lunch out once too (already, how posh!) after Yoga and had a variety of stuff, including a Marmite sandwich, Carrot poofs, Melon and an organix gingerbread man. Unfortunately he made a BIG mess, but fortunetely his little friend Isabelle was there to show everyone that BLW wasn'll all about mess and smushing food everywhere!

Here he is after his first pasta and sauce meal

Tea

Tea has been generally where I have made a bigger efort for George, he seems to like eating at this time more than lunch so always has a bigger appetite. I suppose this could be because he substituted a breast feed for this meal, so has always had food at this time.

Some interesting things George has eaten include potato cakes (or how to use up left over mash), pasta and sauce, a whole nectarine, beans on toast (I know you want to see the pictures!!), veggie patties (I had to add a lot more flour than expected to these), Pasta and pesto (dairy free one that contains Cashews...no nut reaction yet...yay!!) and Beef Stew.

Here's the pictures

Veggie Patties

Beans on Toast

Nectarine

Beef Stew

The Big 6 months, and what happened thereafter

I know it appears that George hasn't eaten for weeks but to be honest, we were really building up to the big 6 months, where he would be allowed WHEAT! I now know exactly what he ate as I have been keeping a food diary to take to the dietitian and have been writing everything he and I ate down (including my marshmallow fetish).

So - Monday 7th was Georges official 6 month birthday and he celebrated with a whole load of wheaty stuff! For breakfast he had 6 blueberry wheats (following cousin Hannahs lead here) 1 plum, a fig and half a banana...this was swiftly dispatched - the boy obviously likes wheat! After a morning spent studying him for any adverse reaction I decided that it was unlikely he was going to sprout horns and such like, and concluded that wheat was here to stay, which makes things a bit easier for future meals!

Lunch on Monday was George's favourite Roast Vegetable medley - mainly an orange affair with sweet potato and butternut squash but I did slip some roasties in there too and the 'rents will be pleased to know that operation Marmite has begun, George had a 1/4 roll with the brown yeasty nectar spread on it, and he didn't spit it out so that was a bonus!

Having turned 6 months George is also now having 3 meals a day and his tea consisted of pear and melon, he seemed quite upset about the size of this meal and could probably have done with some more real food, think I'm going to be out of a job if he carries on at this rate.

Even though it was such a momentous day I didn't actually take any pics so here's some from the week before hand!

This looks like it was an avacado based meal!

Orange vegetables again

Sippy cup hilarity

Roast Potato Breakfast

Well, as I was a lazy mummy and hadn't been to the shop George had leftovers for breakfast and I must say, he takes after his daddy on the roast potato front. They were thoroughly gummed and I had to go back for more! In addition to roasties George had a bit of melon, I thnk it was a bit cold for him, having come straight out of the fridge so it was mainly ignored then thrown on the floor.

Lunch was a lot more succesful having been shopping. George had some rice cakes with last weeks hummous spread on them (sparingly), a banana and a plum. The rice cakes were attacked rather ferociously, babyG obviously likes the strong taste of hummous, but it was the banana that swiftly became the main meal being throughly chomped on for about half an hour.

I think the hummous had dome something to babyG's inside though as there were a few ominous bum trumps throughout the rest of the day, with a bit of sickiness, and he smelt like garlic for a fair while too. He did however go to bed really well so it can't have been too bad.