If you follow me on Instagram you’ll know that I regularly post photos of what Erin eats. I like to make new things for her to try and I love seeing her get a bit messy. However, last week we had our first family meal… kind of!
Up until recently I have been cooking everything completely separate for Erin. Last week though I decided to make me and John and slow cooker beef stew. When it came to giving Erin her dinner on that day I varied from the normal plan. I gave her some of our stew as a bit of an experiment.
Generally, Erin likes carrots and she likes potato in some forms but she’s never had beef or gravy before so I didn’t know how this would go.
As you can see from the pictures above, Erin’s thoughts were a bit mixed! She started off really excited because it was dinner time and because I put a bowl in front of her. Erin immediately reached out for the bowl and the food on it. She loves trying to feed herself now. However, Erin’s was not impressed. The carrots and potatoes were slippery and the beef was such a foreign texture to her. Luckily, Erin persevered and ended up really enjoying her stew! The bowl was nearly clean by the time she was done.
The stew was a MASSIVE hit.
After John and I had helped ourselves and Erin had her small bowl I had a bit left over. Erin now has 4 tiny pots of beef stew and dumplings in the freezer waiting for her.
I love that we have a meal we can now eat as a family. Normally John and I wait until Erin has gone to bed because of me cooking something different but we don’t have to with this meal! Being this excited about being able to have a family meal is probably a bit silly but it will be really nice to all eat together when we can.
Do you remember what your first family meal was?
I love her cheeky little smiles, so adorable! We used to do that too, freeze some food for little T when she was that age 🙂 x
Thanks!! Freezing food does make it a lot easier!
Aww! How lovely! That looks very tasty!
Our first family meal all together was Christmas dinner….hehehe
Aww that must have been lovely!
Ah there is something so great about your first family meal but it definitely comes with some challenges!
mmmm stew looks delicious! I bet she can’t wait to have more! Well done you for starting to cook one meal for the family – a great habit to get into!
She looks so cute, it looks delicious. well done for your family first, I’m going to start doing it next week…wish me luck!
Good Luck! It’s an exciting time 😀
Aw she was really happy to have her stew bless her! I am not surprised though it looks great!
Thanks Ana!
I love how excited she is. Its brilliant when they can start eating with you, makes such a difference. Plus its good for them to learn that meal times are social x
Erin gets so excited about meal times sometimes, especially when it’s something she loves.
Erin looks so happy in they pictures, she’s very cute! I remember our first family meal… didn’t go anything like yours that’s for sure haha. It’s great when you can start all eating together.
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It will be so much easier! Erin’s food is taking over the freezer
Oh this is so sweet and adorable!
Thanks!
I can’t wait to eat together more often!
Archie wouldn’t eat anything with gravy so if we were having stew I’d just pop his veg in a little separate pan so at least I wasn’t cooking a totally different meal
That’s a good tip! Erin does find the gravy a bit salty!