What does your 6-7 month old eat for breakfast?

Sam's going fabulously with his vegetables - he eats pumpkin, sweet potato, carrot, potato and corn and really seems to love all of them in whatever combination they come in, just so long as there's enough pumpkin!

I'm trying to keep him to vegetables at night and fruit in the morning, but we're having real issues with breakfast. The only thing he'll eat is the Heinz apple and oatmeal or the only organic apple custard. He used to eat straight apple or pear puree, but now refuses to touch them. Sometimes he'll eat the heinz apple and blueberry muesli.

Jars of baby food are so expensive - I have him eating my purees for dinner (slowly getting lumpier and lumpier), but I can't seem to get him to eat food I cook for breakfast.

I have a freezer full of apple puree that I've made - I've tried mixing it with the bellamy's oats to get something similar to the apple and oatmeal he scoffs down but he rejects it completely. I've tried mixing apple puree with rice cereal (and mixing in a little of his formula) to make it similar to the apple custard, but again it meets with complete rejection.

Any suggestions? Or is it time to resign ourselves to the fact that he's just going to have to eat breakfast from a jar and be thankful that he will at least eat home-cooked stuff for dinner?

Oh yeah, straight rice cereal or oats made up with his formula wasn't just met with closed lips, it was actively spat out, so that doesn't seem to be an option either.

BW

Are you interested in doing BLS ?
Miss M usually has toast and a piece of fruit, and has done since 6 months.

I would try the porridge again, but this time mix a fair amount of fruit in with it and make it with water instead of milk. It was always a huge hit with Alister. You could possibly try introducing some vegemite/promite toast fingers for him to suck on if he is able to sit up quite well in his highchair. Not every day, just every few days or so as something to break up the 'usual' breakfast for him kwim?

Arimeh, I was at one stage interested in BLS - but he's just hungrier than his coordination can feed. And no teeth yet.

I didn't know that bread/toast was ok at this age... which is probably stupid as there wouldn't be a huge amount of difference between bread and his teething rusks.

Trillian, did you use the Bellamys porridge, or is there another one out there? I'm starting to suspect it's the oats... judging from the smell, they can't taste too pleasant (it's one of the few items of his food that I haven't been able to bring myself to taste!)

BW

We give ds toast crust (under close supervision) - he doesnt have teeth yet either but he likes to knaw at it. its time consuming watching him though. He also has jelna yoghurt most mornings with or without banana mashed in.

You could try some weet-bix, crumbled up with warm water or formula and then some jar fruit over stirred in... DS loves that. Initially I had to use lots of fruit, but now we are mostly milk and a little fruit for sweetness.

ETA - I used bellamys porridge for ages, and DS loved that too... And there is the apple cinnamon one too? I think... he liked that one sometimes...

I would give my DS wheatbix made up with formula, this is one of his favourates. I also tried youghurt, custard, you can also add babys fav fruits. I also gave baby porriage with mashed banana and/or avacado, or other fruits. We also gave fingers of toast +/-vegemite.
After we intorduced eggs, yolk first, I mixed the yolk with hot mashed potato and grated cheese. Now we do omlettes and scrambled eggs.

Just thought I would highlight an other disscussion on weetbix
http://forums.bellybelly.com.au/foru...t-bix-not.html

Darcy never (and still to this day) like porridge made with milk. Like Trill said she prefers watery...I never gave her specific baby porridge though...dunno if that makes a difference. I just used quick oats ground up in the processor.

Im sure I posted here a few mintues ago...:scratchhead:

anyway Darcy has always preferred her porridge made with water and not milk even now at 3. She also hates it sweetened for some reason.
In the beginning we used to mix it with whatever she liked at the time. Sounds gross but pumpkin/sweet potato/carrot.

woops there it is...wasn't here before....

Try the wheetbix, heated so its nice and warm on these cold mornings!
Miss B loves them!!!

Toast with cream cheese has always been a fav of Emily's even at 6 months (we do BLS) she still doesn't have teeth but amazes me how much she gets through! She didn't like the Bellamy's oatmeal but would eat normal Uncle Toby's oats.

Thanks BW for starting this thread I am in the same position as you, so its good to read the replies.

porridge - just normal home brand quick cook oats, boiling water, a teaspoon of malt (excellent for their vit b very good for you) and a cube of fruit puree (homemade)
Easy as. She ate rice cereal for a while made with BM, but wont do porridge or any cereal for that matter, with milk now, has to be water lol dont understand that though!

Just me, but I would never give her anything out of a jar, would rather make it myself. Once they realise there is no other options than what you offer, they will make a choice iykwim. I made and still do all of her purees for the month she ate them, and all of her food...too much sugar and rubbish in the premade stuff

Why dont you try mixing the apple with a vegetable? It goes with almost anything! Nothing wrong with veggies for brekky ;)

Raffertys cereal is much better for a bub than weet-bix too.

add some banana to the pureed Apple :) That's what worked here. Ash was the same, he would eat the jar apple fine, but not mine. They tasted the same to me so I had no idea why. I fork mashed half a banana to a bowl and he ate it so fast :)

We also have oats or a banana or some toast with apricot jam :)

around that age DS liked to have Raffertys multigrain cereal or bellamys porridge, now hes a bit older he has weet bix too, i try to give him something differant every day so he doesnt get used to the one thing. and i always mix with differant fruits, depends whats in season but stewed pears or mashed banana are always a hit!
i would try and perservere with the cereal. i always found after a few rejections he would then take it if i kept offering.
all the best :)

DS only recently started eating 'breakfast' foods. Before that he would have whatever fruit/veg was going (usually the same as lunch & dinner, poor chap). If he likes the stuff you give him for lunch & dinner, why not give him that for breakfast too?