Lunch and supper – selection of finger foods and a bit of mush.

Finger foods

Fruit – apple slices (steamed), pear, peach, apricot, plums, mango, grapes (pipped), cherries (pipped), dried apricot (soaked), dates, sultanas (better if soaked), apple crisps, banana

Veg – courgette, cucumber, broccoli, cauliflower, parsnip, potato, carrot, sweet potato, avocado

Pulses – white beans, butter beans

Meat and fish – hand sized pieces (boiled/baked chicken and fish)

Home made fried rissoles type things – falafel, cabbage and potato, salmon and white bean, tuna and rice balls, chicken and potato or bean, mini beefburgers

Organix products

Grains – rice cakes and other puffed grains (which are easily available in Hungary and are great finger foods)

Mushy food

Mashed veg – spinach, butternut squash, cabbage, courgette, broccoli

Mashed fruit – almost anything, usually mashed with a fork, but Lea particularly loves stewed apple with a bit of cinnamon and prune

Grains – brown rice, quinoa, white rice, barley, oats, corn, barley, buckwheat

Dairy – yoghurt (plain yoghurt with mashed fruit and a bit of oats)

Stews – red lentil stew (initially just plain lentils, and later with onion and bits of veg), barley vegetable stew, tuna and tomato, rice and mixed veg.  Sometimes I add bits of meat, but mainly I cook the meat separately and she can eat it whole.