Hiya - BLS one of my all time fave topics Welcome to the fun!

I'll just respond to your questions above:

We don't eat dinner with DD very often because of her bed time. Generally, I am cooking dinner while she is eating hers and DH sits with her and has a snack while she has her dinner. We all eat breakfast together though and try and eat as many lunches together as possible. It's not ideal and I wish I could change things but we'd end up eating baked beans every night because that's all I'd have time to prepare if we were all to eat together. Basically, DD gets last nights leftovers every night.

DD doesn't always eat what we eat. She's had a fairly bad cold for a while now so I am trying to get even more fruit and vegies into her. If we have bolognese, then we give her the same but add some extra carrots, broccoli etc to her part. We don't buy organic for her but we are careful with the types of foods we buy. Eg - we check the yoghurt we give her and I also try and make her snacks like muffins and savory slices instead of buying processed foods.

Yes - the freezer is your friend. I often freeze DD sized meals into tiny tupperware containers and then just defrost for her. It's sort of like pot luck - hahahah. I just make sure she has some fresh vegies or some cheese and fruit pieces (something fresh) to go with the frozen meal.


The schedule is whatever works for you and your DS. It is seriously so easy. We do bfast with sippy cup of milk/morning tea/lunch and then milk/afternoon tea/dinner and bedtime bottle but DD is almost 12 months. When we started, we were just doing 1 BLS meal a day but she loved it so we pretty much went to 5 meals a day within a month or so.

Good luck - most importantly, have fun.