Baby can join in too!

I should let you all know that I am not only interested in getting the bigger kids to eat but the babies too, getting onto the right track from day one is very important. Don't get me wrong don't fuss or stress over it otherwise this will stress the baby out and you will get over anxious about how much you are getting into baby, it is important to get the right balance, you want baby to eat the right things but you also want them to do it in their own time.
Making your own food is cheaper and you also know what is going into it. I know not everybody has time to do this so don't feel I am excluding those who can't ( I used pots from time to time!!!) but you can freeze if you cook up a ulk and put it into to small pots ( I used silicone cake moulds to freeze mine in just the right portion size).

They can eat pretty much what we eat, but do be careful if allergies run in the family. I started off by really mushing down the meals for mine. Little by little they took handfuls of what was on mmy plate and I didn't bother anymore.

Your baby will "tell" you when they are ready to start, all of mine were early Aby was 3 months, James 2 1/2 months and Alex just 2 months. Do not let anybody dictate to you when they are ready to start with "food" you will know, Alex was taking 180mls sleeping ONE hour then taking another 180mls he was never full so I started him with some pureed apple and he was happy. I had someone tell me it was too soon it was because of the milk (a well known brand that many people use) that it was nutritional!!! I know my son he was hungry and he was happy eating and it didn't harm him. If he had been happy with just milk I would have kept him to just that until he was ready but I am not going to starve him!

I hope you have found this slightly useful either that or I have waffled on about nothing, isn't that what us mums are good at???

Fun for the little ones

I have been having a good think about this one and it suddenly daned on me. Kids love to get messy and kids love to create but they don't like to wait. So while you are waiting for the cake, the dinner (or whatever it is you have been cooking with your child) to cook, after you have cleaned up you can help them make their own recipe page. You take magazines and cut out pictures of eggs, flour, bowls and spoons etc and get the child to put them in the right order and stick them down onto a piece of paper, make it into a game to see if they can remember what they did and they can write the quantities and the number order (depending on their age) and you can put it in a special folder or their own "recipe book" that way the next time you bake that particular item they can look it up in their own book!
I feel this activity passes the time while waiting for the whatever it is to cook so you don't get the constant "is it ready yet??" and is also a good memory activity.

Have fun!!