Feeding the Little One

The Little One is growing and growing and growing. She is such a little person now, and clearly no longer a baby. I think the growing is due, at least in part, to our ongoing habit of feeding her. The Little One is pretty good at clearly communicating when she needs feeding - usually by waving her arms around and whinging, and a lot of pointing at anything she recognises as food and that is visible to her (today there was a whole lot of pointing at the bananas sitting on our kitchen bench).

We've kind of done the Baby Led Weaning thing, but our own mix of it - and kinda just doing what works for us and what feels right.  I've been working on making batches of food for her that we can easily freeze, particularly lunchy type things that the husbeast can easily pull out and feed her during the day.  My most recent success has been pea fritters (they were going to be sweetcorn fritters, but we didn't have any sweetcorn so I used peas).

 Recipe for pea fritters

1 cup of flour
1 tsp of baking power
1 egg
1 cup of frozen peas

• Take the cup of frozen peas and sit them in a bowl of boiling water for about 5 mins.  Rinse under cold water to cool them off and drain them.
• Mix the flour and baking powder.  Break the egg into the flour mixture and mix it in.
• Add the cup of peas and mix. Add a couple of teaspoons of water if needed to get batter to the right consistency.
• Heat a tablespoon of oil in frypan.  Drop tablespoons of batter in to frypan. Flip when browned.
• Yumm (for those who like peas).