10 month meal ideas

At 10 months MiniMe is still toothless! While this hasn't really stopped her from happily gumming most foods there are still some things that I am just too nervous to offer her.  One example is larger pieces of meat.  I shred pork and chicken for her, and crumble up mince and sausages but I just am not ready to give her larger pieces, yet.  I have also noticed that she isn't very good with gumming toast anymore. I don't know if it is because she is so used to chewing and swallowing that she gets impatient with things that take more work to break down.

Here are a selection of meals we have shared over the last few weeks.  We continue to combination feed so at breakfast I often offer her some sort of cereal and then fruit she can pick up and feed herself.  

Spring veg soup with giant couscous and cheese. Courgette, asparagus, peas, spinach  and green onions cooked in veg broth with giant couscous.

Weetabix with strawberries, blueberries and blackberries.  MiniMe loves berries, we tend to have them every morning.

Toasted bagel with almon butter, banana, kiwi and blueberries (and Cheerios). Surprisingly, she finds toasted bagels much easier to eat than regular toast.  Maybe because bagels are softer? 

Baked Potatoes with baked beans and grated cheese.  She ate the cheese waiting for the beans and potato to cool off. Grated cheese, and beans for that matter, is great for practicing the pincer grip.  

Cream of Wheat cereal (like Ready Brek in the uk but wheat instead of oats) with blueberries and banana. 

Chicken curry with sweet potatoes and peas, rice and naan.  I shredded the chicken up to make it easier for MiniMe to gum and she devoured the lot.