6+ months into Baby Led Weaning and Waylen pretty much eats like the average adult. (I’m talking quantities too ha!)
He eats three solid meals a day with one snack and gets a glass of milk in the morning and before bed. After 100+ items he’s really only disliked one thing- cottage cheese! He’ll eat a few bites but then he’s done.
Here’s my list of every item we’ve offered him in our house:
1. Broccoli
2. Sweet potato
3. Avocado
4. Zucchini
5. Carrots
6. Greek Yogurt
7. Eggs
8. Yellow Squash
9. Butternut squash
10. Acorn squash
11. Spinach
12. Strawberries
13. Chick peas
14. Mahi mahi
15. Raspberries
16. Watermelon
17. Banana
18. Blueberries
19. Cauliflower
20. Peanut butter
21. Mango
22. Turkey
23. Green pepper
24. Orange pepper
25. Red pepper
26. Feta cheese
27. Goat cheese
28. Cheddar cheese
29. Motzerella
30. Provolone
31. Tomatoes
32. Oats
33. Flax seed
34. Coconut flakes
35. Coconut flour
36. Chicken
37. Almond flour
38. Pineapple
39. Apples
40. Orange
41. Ground beef
42. Shallot
43. Onion
44. Pasta
45. Kale
46. White beans
47. Almonds
48. Bread crumbs
49. Basil
50. Cinnamon
51. Olive oil
52. Coconut oil
53. Vegetable oil
54. Black pepper
55. Garlic
56. Pumpkin
57. Cucumber
58. Yogurt
59. Potato
60. Green pear
61. Asian pear
62. Portobello Mushrooms
63. White Mushrooms
64. Eggplant
65. Blackbeans
66. Pork
67. Chili powder
68. Cayenne
69. Old bay
70. Shrimp
71. Parsley
72. Celery
73. Lemon
74. Nutmeg
75. Raisins
76. Pork Sausage
77. Olives
78. Spaghetti squash
79. Cantaloupe
80. Corn
81. Rice
82. Green beans
83. Deer
84. Peas
85. Lamb
86. Rosemary
87. Kiwi
88. Lobster
89. Crab
90. Cottage cheese
91. Blackberries
92. Cashews
93. Tofu
94. Sunflower seed butter
95. Salmon
96. Tempeh
97. Pistachios
98. Asparagus
99. Flounder
100. Quinoa
101. Sugar
102. Cool whip
103. White flour
Obviously those last three aren’t on our regular menu, those were for his smash cake! I also didn’t include foods we’ve tried at restaurants so his list is probably a little longer.
This is what meal time for Waylen looked like yesterday.
- 7:00 – 8 oz. Milk
- 8:30 – 2 sweet potato apple muffins and 1/2 banana
- 12:00 – tofu and veggie stir fry
- 2:30 – coconut nom noms snack
- 5:30 – lamb meatballs with butternut squash
- 6:40 – 8 oz. milk
Now I know BLW is all about having the babies eat what you eat but that can be hard when you don’t eat healthy all the time! Ha. (Aka healthy muffins for Waylen, Dunkin Donut muffins for mama.) I also don’t like allllll the foods Waylen loves so sometimes I do make myself something different. When we make eggs for breakfast we both eat them, we share stir fry’s, smoothies, yogurt, meatballs, etc. Dinners are still eaten separately too though, mainly because I don’t eat dinner at 5:30 ha.
Honestly though I couldn’t say anything bad about BLW! It has led my (previously) toothless little babe to eat a variety of food and improve his motor skills in the process! I love that it taught him how to chew his food first and let him control what and how much he ate. I think it’s so important to take cues from your baby and wait until they are actually ready to eat! Waiting until they can physically feed themselves makes it really easy to know they’re ready. (Sitting independently, chewing on toys, copying parents when eating, and losing their tongue thrust reflex are all signs they are ready.)
We really only had one small gagging incident and it was seriously NOTHING. He basically coughed on some broccoli sprigs and it lasted less than two seconds. And you know what? Kids can (and will) gag at all ages! It’s a normal occurrence when learning how to eat.
We have seriously come so far! I mean look at that little babe! To check out the beginning of our BLW journey go ➡️ HERE.
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