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Re: ideas to get him eating cheese please
« Reply #30 on: April 27, 2011, 19:50:15 pm »
Eeek!  My LO is a cheese monster, happily eats extra mature and vintage cheddars at 11 months.  I think putting it in foods would be a good option. 

Here's a pasta sauce recipe from my blog that I often serve with grated cheese.  It is pretty messy though...

Chicken and Tomato Sauce - made approx 5 portions for 11 month old (to serve with pasta)

Ingredients

500g Carton of passata
1/2 red, yellow or orange pepper, chopped into 3-5mm cubes
1 small courgette chopped into 3-5 mm cubes
1 chicken breast chopped into chunks
1 clove garlic
Olive oil


Method

Fry the chicken breast in the oil until starting to brown.  Add the garlic and other vegetables then add the passata.  Cook until the chicken breast is cooked through and the vegetables are done.  Blend the chicken in a blender with a small amount of the sauce.  Serve with pasta.
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Re: ideas to get him eating cheese please
« Reply #31 on: April 29, 2011, 20:02:40 pm »
I came up with another recipe on my blog which might be a good one for this.  Contains cheese but no other dairy.  Very simple and you could put in some other veg if you want.  You could also gradually increase the cheese quantity and strength so he gets used to it.

Potato Cakes - 6 months plus if accepting finger foods (or baby led weaners) - 1 portion for my hungry horace!

Ingredients

1 cold jacket potato (cooked)
A handful of the cheese of your choice, grated
1dsp chopped frozen spinach, defrosted and drained (optional).
Herbs of your choice (optional) chives or garlic chives would be good
Oil

Method

Scoop out the flesh of the potato and mash or pass through a potato ricer.  (I love potato ricers, I'm rubbish at mashed potato but they make it almost foolproof.)  Mix with the other ingredients apart from the oil.

Put some greaseproof or baking paper on a try and brush the greaseproof paper with the oil.  Form the mix into small cakes (and I mean small, think a 10p piece in diameter and about 2/3 cm thick).  Put on the tray and brush lightly with oil.

Store in the fridge until ready to cook.  Bake at 200 degrees C in a preheated oven for 15-20 mins (18 was perfect in my oven.)  Take out and allow to cool till at a safe temperature before serving.

This is the link which has my inexpert photography as well: 

http://mamacook.blogspot.com/2011/04/potato-cakes.html
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Re: ideas to get him eating cheese please
« Reply #32 on: May 11, 2011, 05:46:42 am »
jenny, so sorry, somehow missed your post! how's it going? did you get the neocate advanced or is he making you do more dairy/soy challenges? i've got to do cows milk and soy by his 18mth paed appt in order to keep getting scripts.

mukta, how's your LO getting on with cheese now?

lemonthyme, thanks for the ideas, def going to try those potato cakes they sound delicious!

well we are about to try parmessan cheese over the weekend (glutamates challenge) but i am not too hopeful since he keeps failing on peas which are a small amount of glutamates by comparison. BUT i feel i need to do a 'proper' challenge to see if it really is glutamates IYKWIM.




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Re: ideas to get him eating cheese please
« Reply #33 on: May 11, 2011, 08:25:29 am »
I think that's a sensible idea.  Also glutamates are the things which make food taste yummy so it would be sad if he missed out on them.
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