BLW - Baby led weaning support thread

Tacey, he has had it several ways. It is usually shredded in the tacos. He has also had whole leaves of baby greens and fresh spinach in salads. He's also had big pieces on sandwiches. He does fine with it. Usually he keeps it in his mouth until it is nice and soggy and then swallows it.

Pancakes with applesauce.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!

Hee hee TL, Sofia loves fajitas and goes absolutely nuts for guacamole too Just like Mummy and Daddy she loves lots of corriander (cilantro) in it.

Jo I started giving Sofia snacks when she was 8 months. When we were back in the UK she was being really whiny noe afternoon and my 2 year old niece said "Fia hungry" and lo-and-behold she was! Freaky. Now she has brekkie around 8:30, then normally a piece of fruit or something around 10, lunch at 12, snack at 15:00 (biscuit, cake) and supper at around 17:30.

By the way has anyone got any recipes for low sugar/sugar free cake?? I have one that I adapted, carrot cake, which is yum, but would like some variety..

TL, Your baby is so handsome!!! CUTE!

Faerie, I've read that if you halve the sugar in cake recipes it usually still works ok. I haven't dared put this theory to the test yet though! Recently I've made hot cross buns, which are quite low in sugar, Ruby goes mad for them.

Ooh, I might make some of my banana bread with half the sugar and see how it works out

Don't blame me if it doesn't! LOL

Basically with the carrot cake I made it called for 150g of sugar and I put in 1 tablespoon of sugar and it works out fine. Added lots of dried apricots anyway and they're sugary. I tried leaving out the tablespoon of sugar but didn't work, cake fell apart and tasted yuck.

TL - that video is *so* cute! I showed it to my DH, he is well impressed at how much/how well Otter is eating. DH has been very open to the idea of BLW, but I think that's him well and truly sold now