Harry’s First Real Food
After several impromptu feeding sessions at the table with all the family we’ve decided that it’s about time Harry started to be weaned off his gallons of milk that he consumes and onto some solids. It’s not like this would be an alien experience for him as Daddy has been feeding him most things off his plate for a few weeks now and it’s fair to say he’s not exactly hated the experience!
Mum decided that like his eldest brother & his sister his first meal would be some pureed carrot & potato. The night before the big event Mum peeled & sliced some carrots & potatoes, bolied them and then mashed them with some butter. She then put all the pureed carrot & potato into the ice cube tray & froze it.
The next morning Mum defrosted 2 lego bricks worth of carrot & potato puree ready for Harry’s lunch that date. Lunch time arrived & Mum put Harry into his bumbo seat and started to feed him his food – to say it didn’t touch the sides would be an understatement, the food was literally inhaled by our little hungry horace, who then went on to drain his 8oz bottle of milk.
Mum says Harry is going to be a dream to wean as unlike Dan & Em he didn’t mess with his food he just ate it!
Update – March 2011
4 months on from Harry’s first taste of food it has been proven that Mum was indeed right – Harry has been a dream to wean!
He will eat anything & everything and is now on 3 full meals a day and whatever other food he can lay his chubby little hands on. His daily intake is now as follows:
- Breakfast – 1 weetabix or porridge or (weekend treat) 2 farleys rusk using milk from his 8oz bottle – then his 8oz bottle
- Lunch – a bowlful of food, usually something we have had for dinner previously (last week he had shepards pie & tomato soup to name just a coupl) followed by some fruit, followed by a 4oz bottle of milk
- Dinner – another bowlful of food followed by a yoghurt
- Bedtime – an 8oz bottle
Harry will also look longingly at anyone that eats food in front of him and he has been known to devour yorkshire pudding with gravy, banana, toast & chocolate fudge cake!!
