Got the baby led weaning book by Gill Rapley this weekend and have nearly finished it. It has really geared me up towards starting Jess' weaning and I'm very excited about it now! The basic plan is to start when she's about six months or when she's ready and let her take charge. She'll still get all the goodies she needs from me and she'll explore food in her own time. No purees, no aeroplane noises and no trying to force feed her stuff she doesn't want. It'll all be done in her own time and she'll be eating the food John and I eat.
Which leads me on to the second bit.... As many of you know, John is a vegan, I'm a carnivore and Jess will be a vegetarian until she can decide what she wants to do. I try to cook vegan at home for our joint meals usually with added cheese for me but having received an old vegan cookbook from my brother in law I'm feeling very inspired to make our meals more varied and healthier. I want Jess to be eating exciting, healthy food so makes sense that all three of us do. I'm not saying I'm going vegan but dairy will hopefully play a less central role in our shared meals.
If the courier turns up with my phone and lets me pop out for supplies we may well be having black eye bean burgers tonight. Yum!
Feeling very foodie inspired!
Snap! My other half is also vegan and I'm a carnivore. I did go vegan for a few years, then veggie before going back to meat. Jake didn't like or eat meat until recently - and even now he only really eats it at nursery as I rarely cook meat at home. Most of our meals at home are vegan, most of the time I don't even feel like adding cheese to things.
ReplyDeleteHo hum. If you're not doing purees you might not find this relevant but, anyway, I'm quite enjoying this new microsite which is my favourite food blogger on feeding her new baby. If for nothing else than marvelling at the fact that it's apparently possible to take attractive-looking pictures of goo.
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