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Essentially she found a fun way to prevent meal me Essentially she found a fun way to prevent meal meltdowns and get kids curious and interested in the food before the meal even started!

If you want more expert-made feeding tips and guides to help you navigate the picky years without pressuring, bribing or meal meltdowns comment LINK PLEASE 

@chelsea_explains you nailed it!

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Why haven’t I posted a what my 9 month old eats in Why haven’t I posted a what my 9 month old eats in a day yet?

Because I personally feel like months 8, 9, and 10 were ROUGH for us. 

Sleep was all over the place and if there was a regression or leap we hit every. single. one. 

There’s so many changes going on developmentally in the first year schedules and feeding can be such a moving target. 

That’s why I love having simple and quick meals that I know are nutrient-rich on hand for my little one. Comment BLW APP if you want over 700 dietitian approved recipes, a year of meal plans and feeding guides to ease the mental load of feeding your family. The app also has a free library that shows you how to safely offer over 100 foods by age-and-stage! 

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Double tap if these are also your hobbies. Bonus p Double tap if these are also your hobbies. Bonus points if you are dissociating while watching this.

Oh and give yourself some room to breathe by checking out our meal plans so you don’t have to figure out what’s for dinner tonight or breakfast tomorrow (link in bio)
This one’s directed at our parents with toddlers o This one’s directed at our parents with toddlers or older that have a veggie disliker 🥦❌ 

(Babies are still learning so we don’t necessarily say they like or dislike something before 1) 

Increasing veggie intake can be tricky for many families. You want your kiddo to eat balanced meals and get in those important nutrients — but they just aren’t having it 😝 What’s one to do?

To start…
💚 Keep experiences positive
💚 Get creative with how veggies are offered
💚 Offer liked alternatives to meet nutrient needs at times

In the Tackling Non-Preferred Foods Guide inside our app 📲, you’ll learn how to support your picky eater in increasing their “liked” foods to make mealtimes easier. Download it with the link in bio
Who else has a baby shark that stuffs their mouth? Who else has a baby shark that stuffs their mouth??

Have you tried this?

For more info on learning how to chew and take bites you can download our app 📲 and get our starting solids guides! Comment LINK PLEASE and we’ll send you the link ❤️.

Leah here (pediatric dietitian)!

Nico is at his prime in mouth stuffing phase, it’s a phase I went through with King Luca and I truly dislike it. We didn’t do this all the time but found it was a nice way to teach him to take bites and to pace the meal a bit.

It works best with foods like breads, pita, naan, or some softer finger foods like sweet potato. But feel free to try it with what you have!

Send this to a friend who is starting solids or navigating mouth stuffing💚 #startingsolids #toddlermom #babyfoodideas #kidsfood #babyfoodrecipes
🗒️Comment “PRINT” to get our PDF showing you how t 🗒️Comment “PRINT” to get our PDF showing you how to prepare finger foods for baby.

Baby-led weaning (BLW) is an approach to starting solids where babies self-feed soft, appropriately sized finger foods. This method encourages babies to explore textures, practice chewing skills, and learn to listen to their own hunger and fullness cues. Research suggests BLW may help support fine motor development, independence at mealtimes, and a positive relationship with food. ✨

💚For more information on baby-led weaning and a Free Food Library with how to offer over 100 foods safely, download BLW Meals App. The link is in our bio.
💩Constipation isn’t just related to food! There a 💩Constipation isn’t just related to food!

There are many different factors that could be going on if your little one is having slower than normal stool patterns.

First, when your baby starts solids it’s common to see changes in how frequently they stool. This does not necessarily mean they are constipated! We go more into detail in our Poop guide about what signs to look for, what may be happening, and a plan to help. 

📱If you want access to know more about what foods are stool softening comment FREE APP and we will send you the link so you can download our app to access our free food library.

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Have you heard of food chaining? Food Chaining is Have you heard of food chaining?

Food Chaining is a way to help reduce your child’s picky eating. You can read more about food chaining in our food chaining guides in the app. 💚 Comment 40 to download it📲 today is the last day to grab the sale price! Only 1.75/month for a year of meal plans, 700+ recipes guides and more!

🔁Food Chaining essentially starts by building upon their favorites to add more variety, options and flexibility to food.

Kid’s will often like to eat their favorites over and over because they are predictable in flavor taste and texture.

☝🏼But if we offer the same foods without slight variations, we run the risk of them burning out and also perpetuating their pickiness.

First, we want to do this slowly and build trust with them. It’s never about “hiding” the food or “tricking.”

1. Speak neutrally about the food and make a connection to something they like and enjoy. “This cracker is cheesy like goldfish crackers, but it’s shaped like a penguin!” 🧀

2. Slowly change the brand and keep flavor profiles similar. They will taste different, and depending on your child’s temperament you can acknowledge that. Try to tie in the concept of “Similar but different” with descriptive words like “this is very crunchy like the goldfish cracker.”😉

3. Change the flavor but make is close to the favorite. You can do this with flavor masking or by mixing the foods 50/50 or keeping the flavors similar like cheesy cracker to cheesy cracker

4. Change the shape of the food. This provides a different mouthfeel some kids need to get used to! Compare it to other things in their life like “This is square like our blocks.”🟧

5. Take your time! No pressure if you’re not in a place to make this a priority. It can happen slowly. 🙃

Every food can be a starting place for learning another food! What food would you like to food chain with? Drop a comment below. ⬇️ #Startingsolids #babyledweaning #babyfood #pickyeaters #kidsfood
Spacing out the top 9 allergens safely is key! Th Spacing out the top 9 allergens safely is key!

That way you know exactly what the reaction is likely coming from. 

*Some allergies such as shellfish, peanuts and treenuts tend to be more lifelong. However there is some exposure therapy research and trials that are making big moves in the the allergy space! If your little one has one of these allergies, ask your allergist or healthcare providers if your child may be eligible for OIT. 

Other notes: Having the antihistamine benadryl on hand is not recommended for introducing new allergens. 

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This recipe satisfies Mac & Cheese lovers while of This recipe satisfies Mac & Cheese lovers while offering added vitamins, minerals and fiber! It’s also a great way to switch things up so your little one doesn’t get stuck on eating the same foods over and over 😉

📱BLW Meals App has over 700 recipes like this one that were developed by dietitians and nutritionists to help busy parents feed their little ones! 

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🧀CAULIFLOWER MAC & CHEESE

Ingredients:

- 1 cup (100 g) dry pasta of your choosing
- 4 cauliflower florets
- 1 tablespoon (15 ml) olive oil
- 1/2 (60 g) onion, chopped
- 1 clove garlic
- 1/2 cup (50 g) shredded mozzarella cheese (low sodium if possible)
- 1/4 cup (60 g) cream cheese
- 1/2-1 cup (120-240 ml) milk (of your choosing)
- Black pepper, to taste
- Salt, to taste (only for 12 months +)

Directions:

1. Start by heating the pasta water. When it boils, add the pasta and cook according to package instructions.
2. Steam the cauliflower until tender. This can be done in a pan with a little bit if water or in the microwave. Refer to Cauliflower in the app’s free food library for steaming options.
3. Meanwhile, sauté the garlic and onion in a pan with olive oil until soft and fragrant.
4. Blend the sautéed vegetables with the cauliflower, cheese, milk, and black pepper until smooth. Adjust the texture to your preference, if it’s too thick, you can add more milk or pasta water. If too thin, add more cream cheese and mozzarella.
5. Pour the sauce over cooked pasta and stir to combine.

Suitable from: 6 months + as long as allergens (wheat and dairy) have been introduced and salt is omitted.

How to offer:

- Add to pasta and let them eat with their hands and get messy.
- Responsive spoon-feeding, where baby leans in to take a bite and eat.
- Offer pre-loaded spoons for baby to eat/explore.
sorry I didn’t text back… I was busy getting you a sorry I didn’t text back… I was busy getting you a year of meal plans😌

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✨ Real tips and answers to all of your feeding questions from now through childhood, from real experts

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POV: It’s 5:27 PM, your baby is hungry, you’re exh POV: It’s 5:27 PM, your baby is hungry, you’re exhausted, and you have one tab open for Googling “how to cut strawberries for a 6 month old,” and another open trying to find an easy recipe for dinner.

All while running on reheated coffee.

Starting solids can feel like another full-time job that comes barreling along just when you thought you had a grip on milk feeds.

Suddenly the google searches go from: “how many ounces or how long should I nurse each side” 

to:

What foods do I serve?
How do I cut them safely?
Can my baby have this food?

That’s exactly why we created the BLW Meals App 💛
Inside the app, you’ll get:
✔️ Safe food prep guides for 6 months +
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✔️ Trusted guidance from pediatric feeding experts to even help you through the picky toddler stage and beyond. 

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Hi guys-Emma here (Speech-Language Pathologist who Hi guys-Emma here (Speech-Language Pathologist who specializes in feeding and swallowing).

We always hear from parents that gagging is scary and I totally get that, but I want you to know gagging is actually a protective mechanism and is a natural, normal part of learning to eat-BOTH with purees and finger foods. 

Gagging is common, choking is not. 

If your baby is gagging, you do not need to intervene, just give them time to work it out. 

Choking IS something we need to prevent and you most certainly need to intervene if it’s happening. 

It helps to know that if you can hear your baby making sounds like talking or loud coughs, know that air is moving through the airway. Choking is typically silent (though sometimes you may hear wheezing sounds). 

You can help prevent choking by knowing what foods are a higher risk for choking incidents and how to offer safe textures and shapes to your baby based on their developmental stage💚.

Inside BLW Meals app we have a guide on gagging versus choking + we show you how to safely offer over 100+ foods to your baby in our (free) food library. Everything inside our app was made and approved by our board certified pediatric feeding team of dietitians, SLPs, behavior analysts and pediatricians so you can confidently feed your baby. 

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Save this easy, delicious high-protein cookie reci Save this easy, delicious high-protein cookie recipe!

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This recipe is actually an adaptation of another 4-ingredient Peanut Butter Cookie recipe that is in our app. Since that recipe was so popular, we decided to make a version that was fruit-sweetened to offer added fiber and vitamins and also make it a little less sweet. And guess what? They were a big hit!!

🍪4-Ingredient Date PB Cookies

Ingredients:

- 1 cup (268 g) creamy peanut butter
- 1/3 cup (80 g)pitted Medjool dates, ~3-4 large dates
- 1 large egg (50 g; or flax egg)*
- 1/2 teaspoon (3 g) baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon (1.5 g) sea salt (optional)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C).
2. Place the dates in a small bowl and cover them with hot water. Let them
hydrate for ~10 minutes. Add the soaked dates to a blender or mixer and
blend until it forms a paste-like consistency, if necessary you can add a spoonful of the soaking water to make it smoother.
3. In a mixing bowl, mix all of the ingredients together until smooth.
4. Using a tablespoon or small cookie scoop, scoop cookies onto a greased baking sheet. These work best if you have a non-stick surface like parchment
paper, a silicone baking mat or a cookie sheet.
5. Space the cookies a minimum of 2-3 inches apart because they will spread.
6. Bake for ~12-14 minutes (I have a gas oven and baked them for 14 minutes).
Allow them to cool for 2-5 minutes prior to serving. These will feel
fragile when they are warm but when cooled will be chewy and soft.

For flax egg:
Mix 1 tablespoon ground flax seed with 3 tablespoons warm water and let 
sit for ~5 minutes. Cookies made with flax egg will be soft/ gooey in 
the middle.

Servings: Makes ~8 cookies, depending on how you shape them.
Storage: Can be kept in the refrigerator for 3-4 days or up to 3 months in the freezer.

Suitable from: 1 year+ due to the texture

Prep time: 5 min.

Cook time:12-14 min.

Ready in:17-20 min.
If you’re not a morning person and you want a year If you’re not a morning person and you want a year of breakfast ideas comment “40” to get it for less than a cup of coffee each month. 

Leah here- Breakfasts are my least favorite meal and I can’t even hide it. 

I truly only love to do one or two things including:

-Something I can quickly reheat or VERY quickly cook + 1-2 things I just need to chop 

So that’s why I made the breakfasts in our meal plans to have some room for leftovers or repeated meals… because let’s be honest, I repeat some of these foods often! You’ll even notice in the graphic I have multiple repeats of foods and allergens. For example: If I’m opening a can of pumpkin, you best believe I’ll try to find another recipe that needs pumpkin too. 

Many of these recipes I even prep the night before! Like the pumpkin or banana oatmeal, the pancakes or the yogurt. 

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🥞AVOCADO BANANA PANCAKES

Ingredients:

- 1/2 avocado (~70 g)
- 1/2 ripe banana, mashed (~1/4 cup, 60 g)
- 1/4 cup (60 g) Greek yogurt
- 1/4 cup (60 ml) milk of your choosing
- 1 egg (50 g) (or 1 flax egg: 1 tbsp ground flaxseed (7 g) + 2.5 tbsp water (38 ml)
- 1 cup (90 g) oat flour - gluten-free if necessary
- 2 teaspoons (9 g) baking powder
- Butter (or oil of your choosing), for greasing

Directions:

1. In a medium bowl, mash the banana and avocado.
2. Add the remaining ingredients (except for the baking powder) and mix well, the batter will be thick and a bit lumpy.
3. Gently fold in the baking powder.
4. Heat a non-stick skillet on medium heat and grease with a 1-2 tsp of butter (or oil). Be sure to spread oil evenly across the pan.
5. Pour ~2 tablespoons of batter onto the skillet. Cook on medium-low heat until bottom side starts to brown (~1-2 minutes), then flip and cook the other side (~1-2 minutes). These are easier to flip and cook of you make
smaller pancakes.
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✅ Make folders of your favorites (like pinterest!)

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And as always, you can always send us a DM if you have any questions! Someone on our pediatric feeding team will always get back to you 

 References for protein recs in the post:

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/canada-food-guide/resources/nutrition-healthy-term-infants/nutrition-healthy-term-infants-recommendations-birth-six-months/6-24-months.html

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/food-nutrition/healthy-eating/dietary-reference-intakes/tables.html

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6492513/

#startingsolids #babyledweaning #blw #babyfood #babyfoodrecipes
Allergen introduction can feel SO scary, right? 😅 Allergen introduction can feel SO scary, right? 😅

But the advice has totally changed…

For years, parents were told to wait.

Now we know: introducing allergens early + often may actually help reduce allergy risk.

Especially for peanut + egg (research-backed by a LEAP study🙌).

So what are the “top allergens”?👇

🥜 Peanut

🥚 Egg

🥛 Dairy

🌾 Wheat

🐟 Fish

🦐 Shellfish

🌰 Tree nuts

🫘 Soy

⚪ Sesame (newest addition!)

How to introduce them (without spiraling):

- Offer in the morning so you can monitor
- Stick to ONE new allergen at a time
- Skip right before naps (you want to observe)
- High-risk baby? Talk with your pediatrician first

No need to overcomplicate it-you don’t have to delay anymore 🤍

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