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Hi! I'm Gemma and I live in Liverpool UK in a house full of boys: Blake born November 2010, my husband Shaun and Bailey our crazy labradoodle puppy. I'm passionate about food and obsessed with giving my boys the very best I can. I'm vegetarian although the boys aren't and I try to make all our meals from scratch. I look forward to hearing about your own Baby Led Weaning journeys.

Baby loves lentils!

baby led weaning pasta

Today was one of those days where no amount of MMP (Mummy’s Military Planning) would make things go smoothly and follow the schedule I’d set out in my head.  We missed the 4pm deadline when the supermarket closes to do this week’s big shop.  It meant I had very limited food in the fridge and…

Eating off the menu for the first time

Baby led weaning in restaurants

Recently we took Blake out for his first meal where we were to pick something for him to eat from the menu.  This was a huge deal for me.  I have spent months making absolutely everything he eats myself, from scratch but my husband and I decided it was time to take him out into…

Baby led weaning and Mess – Does it Matter?

baby led weaning mess yoghurt

I loved this video from Jess showing off Ben’s brilliant spoon skills and I’d been waiting all Summer to chuck Blake in the paddling pool outside and get him to try the same thing.  Unfortunately here in the UK our Summer actually happened way back in April (no joke!) and so it’s never been warm enough…

Mama’s slow cooked mega bean chilli

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I love my slow cooker!  It allows me to chop chop chop the night before, bung it all in the cooker in the morning and get on with my day without worrying about rushing back to get dinner started. This was the first time I had made vegetarian chilli for Blake and I decided to…

Introduction – Gemma & Blake

"You've missed a bit!" enjoying roasted red peppers (pout also generously included!)

Hi everyone!  I’m Gemma, 29 from Liverpool UK and first time Mum to Blake who is now 9 months old.  I’ve been following this blog for months and months, long before I started to wean Blake and it’s always been a brilliant read and source of inspiration for me.  When I first started to tell…