I thought I would chronicle a day of meals because I really thought the visuals were helpful in other Bees’ previous posts. This was surprisingly challenging because I realized I never really prepare her food into visual portions – I give her a few pieces of food at a time from a bigger plate, which I also usually munch off of. Also I haven’t been consistently around for dinners this week, so 3 days of breakfasts it is.

When I originally began baby led weaning, I was worried about when breakfast would be more than just couple slivers of fruit, because it’s all about variety and to be honest, I’ve had cereal for breakfast everyday of my life. What I’ve been trying to do is cook up half a cup of steel cut oats, which lasts about 3 meals or so. Tuesday I got ambitious and made amaranth porridge (a teaspoon is pictured for relative size) and gave it to her before the fruit. It was kind of gelatinous and runny, but she was able to pick it off her tray like a piece of really wet dog poop or a big wet slug. Great breakfast visuals, I know. Amaranth is supposed to taste nutty, and it has an almost minute popping texture like quinoa, and I would say it’s kind of “grassy.” She can often eat almost an entire mango, but that day she ate about a quarter (I didn’t get to photograph the before) and then began dropping the pieces off the side of her tray when she was done.


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Cue gratuitous cute pictures. The amaranth seeds left perfect, round little freckles all over her face. She doesn’t eat with a spoon but wrangled it away from me after she was done with the mango.

Wednesday I started to get nervous about the last time she’d pooped so I gave her half a nectarine first so she’d get a good amount of fruit. They say that “p” fruits help with constipation – peaches, pears, plums, and anything with a pit like peaches, apricots, cherries, nectarines, avocados. After the nectarine she downed four heaping tablespoonfuls of plain steel cut oats. That’s the beast baby I know and love!

Thursday she had half an Asian apple pear (which was pretty large) first to maximize the fiber… she hadn’t pooped since maybe Sunday? She ate 50% of the skins, which is pretty impressive because they were kind of bitter and hard to chew up. Then she had just a teaspoon of the steel cut oats before she was done.

I still eat my empty starchy cereal beside her each morning, but eventually she’s going to want to partake in my sub-nutritious meal so maybe I should change my morning eating habits. Don’t get me wrong – I’m not into Lucky Charms or anything so sugary sweet, but I could eat Life cereal for months on end. I’m not ambitious enough to cook up eggs for breakfasts (sometimes I do for lunches), so porridge it is for the meantime.

What do you ladies do for breakfast for yourselves and your little ones?