Egg free eggy bread is nice - mush up a banana, a splash of milk and dip the bread in then fry. Good if you are avoiding egg and tastes yummy but I made it with brioche which has egg in anyway and it was even yummier! (I know breakfast finger foods are nto supposed to be about ME).
I liked the idea of DS getting a variety or grains and vitamins for breakfast (otherwise in our house its wheat bread, wheat pasta, wheat crumpets, wheat pancakes... and the odd oat cake, DS wouldn't eat rice until he was about 12 months so he didn't even get that). Anyway, I used a shop bought baby muesli (it was aged 10 months I didn't care what the age on it was and gave it as 6 or 7 months) because it has a wonderful variety of grains and vits. Like Nuala with the wheetbix balls I made the muesli into balls by adding only a small splash of milk and letting it thicken. It doesn't work with adult muesli which is a shame. Sometimes I interchanged with another shop bought fortified cereal, an oat and banana porridge, it also rolls well into finger food balls. These days he has the muesli a bit sloppier and uses a spoon with some loading help (still sticky helps a lot as he tends to turn the spoon upside down as he takes it to his mouth).
The pancakes can be warmed carefully place on the top of a toaster if your LO doesn't like them straight from the fridge. Always good to have a batch of pancakes in the freezer ready to grab.
've actually been meaning to ask how blw babies transition to a spoon? MIL seems very worried about the fact that she eats with her hands... "Like an animal" she says
Eek! I'm not generally rude to strangers or other people's parents but has she not noticed that your LO wees and poops in her pants "like an animal"? or crawls on the floor "like an animal", or, perish the thought, walks in BARE FEET?
If it was me I just wouldn't be able to stop myself being very sarcastic.
My DS (now 14 months) has been using a spoon and fork (mainly fork) since he was 6 months old (I admit he cannot yet load them but he is getting closer and does sometime manage to jab something with his fork). He does still use his fingers to eat but it depends how the mood takes him, we had a hunger strike for several minutes whilst I worked out he was not going to eat anything at all until I gave him cutlery, so long as the option is there he will eat but he must have his spoon and fork at the table like very one else. Meanwhile I know some ladies who have gone the purée route to weaning who won't even consider letting their LO have a go with the spoon because it might make mess. At 14 months DS is considered 'weaned' I reckon but I like to still check out this board and offer my support and advice and this is a perfect example of when it is useful. Not only does DS use a fork but he also drops so little food that I rarely have to pick anything up. He will still get food on the table around his plate but at the end of his meal when he is full we have a clean up routine where he picks all these up and returns them to the plate along with his fork and spoon.
I'm sure babies weaned either way eventually learn to use their cutlery. I've never met an adult who can't use a knife and fork.
