George Discovers Nectarines

We have been away this weekend so food has been at odd times and sometimes missed out all together! On Friday we had our normal meals so breakfast was banana and melon, the melon a bit under ripe still so this wasn't really looked at in much detail but the banana seemed to go down well again, I think I added a pear to the proceedings too at some point and from my (very blurry memory) I think he still likes it!

Lunch on Friday was a veritable feast with babyG being offered sweet potato wedges sprinkled with cinnamon and rice cakes with homemade hummous on them. For the hummous I whizzed up a can of chick peas, some oil, some garlic and lime juice, then a couple of sun dried tomatoes. This could possibly be the best thing that George has ever eaten and I did have to go and get more rice cakes as he was banging his hands on the tray and shrieking! Here's a picture of George looking quite messy after this meal!

Friday night turned into a bit of a nightmare though with George waking at 3 and staying up till 5, not sure why, perhaps it was the garlic??

On Saturday we were off to Aunty Caty's house so breakfast was foregone in favour of a 3 hour car journey however Cate had prepared sweet potato wedges and roast courgette fingers which George wolfed down, Hannah on the other hand disregarded the courgette in spectacular fashion flinging it aside in favour of pudding. We had to wipe the fromage frais from the sippy cup before George *shared* it however as I don;t think Fromage Frais classes as non dairy!

Sunday was again a one meal day, breakfast consisted of Pear and Nectarine. I have never seen George eat so much fruit, I quartered the nectarine and George really went for it, at the end of the meal there was only skin left and babyG excelled himself in front of family and showed his eating skills off magnificently to big cousin Hannah.

In a break from tradition, tomorrows meals include roast potato breakfast, tune back in for more details tomorrow!

Cupboard Breakfast

Owing more to the fact that they were the only thing left suitable in the house rather than any pre thought out menu, George had avocado and pear for breakfast...they both went down fairly well, with perhaps the avocado being favoured over the pear. Breakfast also saw the introduction of the sippy cup for the first time and Baby G seemed to know exactly what to do with it and once I'd taken the valve out which meant the water just came out he was pleasantly surprised by the whole thing. I'd left the skin on the avocado and it was quickly dispatched once George got used to the slimyness! Breakfast was followed with a chaser of calpol as babyG was screaming (prime suspect = teeth)

For lunch George had a variety of things including purple sprouting broccoli, some baked apple segments and an Organix apple rice cake (stage 2 suitable from 7 months...we'll show them at 24 weeks!) - can you tell I'd been shopping? All of this went down really well, but I have found out that purple sprouting broccoli has looser leaves than normal evidenced by the bits found on the floor after the meal.

The rice cake was dealt with really well and some of it even went down which I didn't think would happen as it is by far the driest food that George has dealt with so far, again lunch was polished of with calpol pudding...poor babyG.

In other news, we have been referred to a dietitian as George gets a funny rash over his eyes and top of his head when he is breastfeeding, despite the dairy free diet, so hopefully we'll start to get some answer to the whole rash, eczema and vomiting conundrum.