Feeding the kids

Had a good day today.  Went to Morrisons, which is not exciting in itself, but as we had literally no food in the house, I had to take Evie there for her lunch.  She had children’s macaroni cheese with garlic bread, and apple slices, and also polished off half of my mum’s chips with mayonnaise!  Eating out with veggie children is generally not much fun.  There’s often little choice as an adult, but for the kids it’s even worse.  It’s always macaroni cheese, pizza or spaghetti and tomato sauce.  I just wish they’d make a bit more of an effort and maybe do something with a few more veggies, or some lentils or something.  Some places will do small portions of adult meals, but often these aren’t much more inspiring.

Henry had a spinach and something or other pouch from Plum Baby – personally I thought it tasted weird because it also had apple in it, but he seemed to like it.

But the really exciting news is that he ate cauliflower!  A new taste, and also a bit of texture, because when you puree cauliflower, you don’t get a wonderfully smooth puree like you do with butternut squash, or sweet potato and the like.  You get sort of miniscule bits of cauliflower in a sort of watery base.  Sounds disgusting, and doesn’t look a lot better.  But I mixed in a bit of baby rice to sort of bind it all together, and then added some cream cheese to make it into a kind of cauliflower cheese.  At first he really wasn’t keen – I think because of the new texture, but after a bit of protesting, he ate the lot.  And then had some fromage frais.  I can’t believe how much he loves solids – totally different to Evie, who I’m sure didn’t swallow anything vaguely approaching real food until she was 10 months old!

I did quite a bit of baby cooking yesterday, so now he has some cubes of lentils in the freezer, along with some mini yogurt pots full of cauliflower, and red pepper and courgette.  The red pepper and courgette was actually quite nice pureed, and Evie had some yesterday as a pasta sauce.

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