For a while we were giving MiniMe a fromage frais every night for her "dessert". She would use a little spoon and dip it into the little yogurt pot and attempt to feed herself. She really surprised us with how quickly she figured out how to dip the spoon (after watching us) and bring it to her mouth. Sure, she was already used to self feeding from a pre-loaded spoon but the process of dipping and feeding presented a real challenge.
We started when she was about 8 months, and now at 12 months I can say that on most nights the mess (if there is any) is confined to her cheeks and is no longer all down her front, on the floor and all over the high chair tray.
After a few weeks though we realised that the amount of sugar in those little pots is just ridiculous! Sure, most of it probably occurs naturally through the fruit but it was still really high. So we started giving MiniMe plain full fat greek yogurt, but the problem was that there had to be a pretty large portion of yogurt in her bowl for her to be able to successfully dip and feed herself. UGH.
We tried using an egg cup...not enough yogurt, we tried a ramekin...not great (plus being ceramic someone had to hold onto it so it didn't meet its death crashing to the floor). THEN I came up with the ingenious idea to Up-Cycle a Tommee Tippee breast milk storage pot as a yogurt container.
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| Breast Milk Container being used as a yogurt pot |
So now we just plop in some plain greek yogurt and MiniMe can hold the pot and spoon feed herself! Sometimes I'll add in some fruit smoothy if we have some leftover, but it really isn't necessary.
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