Pasta, pesto and peas is top of the charts round our way too, followed by:
Broccoli Muffins
Sweetcorn Patties
Sauteed Potato
Virtuous Muffins (Kami's version)

Hmmm....Small seems to have inherited my propensity for carb-loading. I'll just have to hope she has her father's metabolism to rescue her from Large-Bottomed Hell.

Wait, just wait for my dispatch from the Land of Quinoa, it's proteiny as well as carby but behaves like a carb... i think it may save us all from Large-Bottomed Hell...

Can't BELIEVE I forgot the glorious Lentil & Cheese Wedge. (I blame starting-nursery-anxiety!)

I know she's ill or teething if she won't eat banana, broccoli or bread. The 3 Bs, as opposed to the 3 Ps.

Not sure if it counts as a 'meal' but toast always gets eaten. As does yogurt. Almost as certain are broccoli patties (which is odd as he won't touch broccoli on its own, sweetcorn patties, lentil patties, in fact anything called a patty. Anything fishy, especially smoked mackerel, though he only has a tiny bit of that as I worry it is made entirely of salt. And raspberries, which I suspect he would eat until he turned pink and burst.

Spanish omelette/frittata type things are never refused, they are soaked in garlic but the garlicky the better it seems with the Pickle. I actually have to make sure she can't see exactly how much I've made otherwise we have to deal with a tantrum if I don't give it to her.

Courgette, cheese & garlic pancakes exceptionally popular as well.

Something that's easy and very quick to prepare - baby gnocchi gets hoovered up with barely a blink of the eye.

Mashed potato with poached salmon and a spinach white sauce also a big favourite.

And don't forget the wonderful blueberries.......

Hi all, this is the first time I'm posting. I've checked in to the site here and there (thanks all). I'm in the US, and bug is 11 mo. We've been blw since almost 6mo. He is doing splendidly with eating solids, but very little actual *weaning* seems to be happening:)

Anyway, our failsafe foods are:
blueberries
roasted carrots (esp if from roast chicken)
chicken meatballs
broccoli

he's allergic to dairy, so no pasta with pesto and peas yet, but I can't wait . . .

oh, and scrambled eggs with a little salsa. a mountain of them.

Pancakes all the way - she has never been known to refuse a pancake, and they're so handy, as you can put pretty much anything into one. Also blueberries. I'm pretty sure she stops eating when she's hungry, but am concerned that if given free reign with the blueberry, she'd end up like the girl from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Violet?

Hello... we're new too.
S is six and a half months old and I've been reading this blog for *months* (from well before he was born, in fact) so I'm almost indecently excited now we've started on solids.
His favourites so far are roasted carrots and roasted courgettes, and mangoes -- he'd live on those yellow mangoes from Pakistan if we let him.

Mushroom pasta.....fry one garlic clove (whole) in a little butter, add half of a large mushroom chopped up and when cooked add a bit of Philly....there should be some of the cooking juices to thin the philly out.....toss into spagetti.....delicious.

Also...rice noodles....with any veg, tossed in sesame oil....

We haven't been too hardcore with meals yet so much because we JUST got over serious gagging and spitting out at nearly 8 months. The bubs loves broccoli with abandon, likes his porridge pancakes a great deal and honestly... if something is attached to cheese in any way, he'll storm the castle to get his mouth around it.

I just wanted to shower the newbie BLW babies with kisses and say thanks to their mums for joining in. It's all over in a flash, this weaning business, so i really appreciate you joining in to create a bank of information for other people new to BLW.

Hi, this is our first post too (thanks for the great source of information). Tink is 7 and a half months now and been BLW since 6 months. She loves anything with pasta, cleared the plate of lentil bolognese the other day rather than just playing with it. She also loves porride pancakes and feeding herself yoghurt.

Pea and parmesan rissotto. Which I'm about to send you the recipe for, Aitch, because it works hot, cold or tepid, on the move or at home, freezes well, can be eaten with hands or cutlery and as far as my rudimentary grasp of nutrition tells me, is a pretty healthy and rounded meal. And it's a grown-up meal, which goes down very well with guests. It's never been refused by IzzyMouse, who even at her most settled and compliant can be off the random scale in what she will and won't take a fancy to on any given day.

Yoghurt is also favourite, particularly with passion fruit. Makes my tongue curl, personally, but as we've all discovered, there's no accounting for baby taste buds.

Hi
Is the pea and parmesan risotto recipe here - couldn't find it but that may just be my furry brain!
Thanks

don't k now actually... must hunt down Mij for it. (although i suspect it's a white risotto with frozen peas added a few mins from the end).

Lydia has been on BLW since 6 months and am now getting braver with the food options. But one new thing we've discovered which she adores is rice (any type) with parmesan cheese and butter. The butter and cheese improves any slightly "old" rice making it moist and sticky (more like a risotto). She loves it with any type of veg but particularly mashed artichoke.?!!

i gave this when my baby was 8 months old. It's quick and easy microwave liver pate. First, combine raw liver (chicken) and onion in food processor, grind well. Put mixture in bowl, and microwave for 1-2 minutes until it firms up just nice. Not too long in microwave or it becomes too hard and it will not "melt" in the mouth. Cut into pieces. This pate is hard enough to handle by hands but will melt in the mouth.