Feeding Baby: 11 Months

As I've talked about before here and here, we skipped the whole baby food thing and have mostly been feeding Henry what we eat. Occasionally I'll use a jar of Earth's Best baby food to add some extra veggie-power to something (like a jar of carrots to his spaghetti). Sometimes he got baby food when I was traveling (though often he'd split a cobb salad with me - he got the egg yolk and avocado and chewed on the crust of whatever bread came with it).

Well, I thought I'd share what he's eating these days. He must be going through a growth spurt, because right now he's eating big portions! Here is our menu for this week, and what Henry gets:

Sunday - moo shu pork and vegetables and pancakes (Henry eats everything we eat - all the veggies and meat are shredded)

Monday - beef stew, french bread, salad (Henry eats stew - I chop his beef, carrots, and potatoes very small and he feeds himself)

Tuesday - breakfast for dinner by Daddy (I'm in class Tuesday nights) (Henry eats leftover stew with a jar of carrot baby food mixed in, and a little eggs and sausage)

Wednesday - linguini with clams, big salad (Henry hasn't had shellfish yet, so he has blueberries and strawberries from our salad and some leftover barley soup from the freezer)

Thursday - vegetarian chili, cornbread (Henry eats everything we eat)

Friday - French onion soup (Henry has leftover veggie chili and a little French onion soup)

As you can see, we eat a lot of soups and stews this time of year. In the summer you'd see lots of salads.

For breakfast he often eats eggs or yogurt or oatmeal and some fruit. He's especially fond of blueberries and bananas these days. He does like this, although I have a really hard time feeding it to him, because it looks like vomit. Yuck! Oh and give that baby a pancake and he is one happy little dude - no syrup required! I also usually have a giant freezer bag of whole wheat banana mini muffins in the freezer, which the girls and Henry have for breakfast or snacks during the week.

For lunch, he sometimes eats leftovers or just a bunch of random things on his tray - today he had small pieces of cheese, pears, ham and wheat crackers. I also freeze small portions of soup (I just make extra when I make it for dinner) and keep them in the freezer for the kids to have for lunch during the week.

Henry still nurses, though he's also getting (this) formula, because my milk supply dropped dramatically when I was pregnant and never came back. We're happy doing a combo right now and will keep it up for a while longer.