Hey chickadees and chickadudes,

Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions of meal ideas for my little mango who turned 1 last friday (how quickly did that go?!)...
She's on 5 meals a day and *still* on booju (erm.. breast milk lol) but i wanted to  up her raw food intake, but am not sure what else to give her as shes gettin the hang of eating stuff with her hands but to make sure she's all feed up i like to spoon feed her some stuff too.. she loves blackberries, but im pretty sure she needs mroe then that hehe
so I was wondering what a typical day of food looks like for mainly raw babies...?
anyone game to share?
luv kt
xox

Haha hey gorgeous!
long time no speak :oP
wow.. connor is a yr already?! i can't beleive how fast its all gone!! and another peice of bliss on the way Lo) how many bubbas will that make runnin around your household?

Here's hopin theres some raw mummas and puppas out there who have some advice )

luv kt
xox

That will make 3 under 3 which will be hard but we will get through it I am sure. I just cant wait till they are all running around I dont like newborn stage!!!!

My little one eats 4 times daily. He has most fruits and vegies, raw and cut up into bite-sized pieces. I try to stick to good food combining principles, but he has a few 'good' combos that he wont touch and other 'bad' combos he loves and eats without any problems - so let them guide you a little too.

Usually breakfast is melon of some sort. The two middle meals of the day are stone fruits, bananas, grapes and blueberries at the moment. The at dinner time he has an avocado and then a mixture of whatever I am putting into our salad. For example last night he had avo, tomato, capsicum and grated carrot.

I give him dried fruit, nuts and seeds a few times a week. He also has GS in iceblock form at least once a day.

My main aims are to offer variety, keep foods readily accessible for when he's hungry and of course lead by example. It's wonderful when he tries a new fruit or vegie and loves it.

Enjoy eating together!

Hi Katie,

Well my youngest is 18 mo.  He's breastfed....other than that he eats what i eat..nibbles, tastes, here and there. he will have about 60mls of my GS every morning after our usual morning boob..but throughout the day I couldn't really tell you how many times a day he eats other food or how many times a day he has the boob. I pretty much fed him the boob exclusively up until he was about 14 mo. I don't understand this need to rush to solids just because the 'experts' say so.  Babes imitate their careproviders...tastes, nibbles, here and there....i think it's too inconvenient to prepare separate food. much easier to whip out the boob, or chew a few mouthfuls of whatever you're having and passed it straight over, or little bits of food off your plate broken into pieces good for little fingers....takes away alot of the potential fuss around getting kids to eat some foods later on. But i rarely do things by the book so don't worry about me I know my kids are thriving.

anyway....to give you something a bit more worthwhile..some things that my babe loves;

banana blended with coconut flesh & maca
green smoothies
sun-dried tomato hommous
pesto mushrooms
dehydrated banana & coconut bars/apple bars
carrot cake (raw of course)
all types of melons, fruit..little bite-sized chunks..

Baby greens is actually a good book about this sort of thing...many of the recipes i've made for myself and we've shared.

many blessings on your journey.
xo

where does the time go?! sorry for not replying sooner.. life is hectic lol

Very informative post earthmum thanks!
Lea-ella is also still breastfed and is also fed a fair amount of 'good' cooked foods. Its easier for me to spoon feed her and then i can gauge how much shes eaten (typical fretful 1st time mum lol) but she's having fun munching on melon, balckberries and some other fruits.. tho i find that more ends up on the floor then in her belly lol... maybe i should just blend up the fruit that she doesnt herself and spoonfeed her the remainders...?
im making some almond and banana cookies in the dehydrator so ill see how she likes them (if i dont eat them all first hahahaha evil mother  ).
do you happen to have a recipe for the raw carrot cake? sounds yummy !

Emi - your a star
doyou remember what you fed him when he was 1-ish? Ella's getting the hang of feeding herself but mainly likes to squish her finger foods or feed them to me so im trying to think of some easy meals that are packed full of nutrients that i can feed to her or that she is safe chewing herself...? any ideas?

Thanks everyone for your replys
keep them comming!
luv kt
xoxoxox

Juniper loves sprouted brown lentils with herbal sprinkle at the moment, will much a handful.
She used to love the GS popsicles too but gone off GS all together now.
She also loves Buckwheat sprouts, they make a great cereal in the morning with some dried fruit almond/oat/any milk. do what ever, add banana, tahini, oats, finely grated apple, LSA.
We put cinnamon and honey sometimes, and allways with homemade yoghurt (she loves it!)
She is into red cabbage too, just sliced, and usually out of my bowl not hers?? dear thing.

Can I ask what GS is?