I have been unable to find a good and practical online meal planner for the first stages of baby weaning: the one here seemed rather too complicated, and the only other one I could find – Annabel Karmel’s in the Complete Toddler and Baby Meal Planner – is not available online. Therefore, I have decided to devote a full page of my blog to recording our own meal plan (i.e. what the Boy has been eating since the day he turned 23 weeks old). The menu is inspired from both sources I have mentioned, and it is obviously only a guide for anyone who might choose to use it. 
So far, I have prepared all his meals by simply boiling the vegetables or fruit until they are soft, and then pureeing them with the help of the NutriBullet Baby, a gadget that I am finding extremely useful, and that I credit with the success of weaning so far.
I have also found the 3oz Babypotz very useful for storing the food when I make it. On average, I put 2 pots in the fridge and 2-3 pots in the freezer each time I cook, and I feed the Boy the new food for 2 consecutive days most of the time, and then bring out the frozen meals when I need them. The Babypotz have done extremely well in the microwave, dishwasher AND the freezer, so they really are a superb help to the weaning process.
(And no, NutriBullet and Babypotz are not paying me to say this, I am genuinely a fan).
Here is the plan, with new foods marked in bold:
WEEK 1:
- Day 1 (Mon 31/08): lunch: sweet potato purée (and milk for all the other meals and snacks too)
- Day 2 (Tue 1/09): lunch: butternut squash purée
- Day 3 (Wed 2/09): lunch: carrot purée
- Day 4 (Thurs 3/09): lunch: butternut squash purée
- Day 5 (Fri 4/09): lunch: carrot purée
- Day 6 (Sat 5/09): lunch: baby porridge
- Day 7 (Sun 6/09): lunch: sweet potato purée
[This week, I have made sausages with sweet potato mash and gravy on Monday, and butternut squash soup on Tuesday, in order to tie in with the Boy’s meals.]
WEEK 2:
- Day 1 (Mon 7/09): breakfast: pear purée with baby cereal; lunch: sweet potato purée
- Day 2 (Tue 8/09): breakfast: pear purée with baby cereal; lunch: carrot and parsnip purée
- Day 3 (Wed 9/09): breakfast: apple purée with baby cereal; lunch: carrot and parsnip purée
- Day 4 (Thurs 10/09): breakfast: apple purée with baby cereal; lunch: butternut squash purée
- Day 5 (Fri 11/09): breakfast: banana purée; lunch: butternut squash purée
- Day 6 (Sat 12/09): breakfast: banana purée with baby cereal; lunch: carrot and parsnip purée
- Day 7 (Sun 13/09): breakfast: pear purée with baby cereal; lunch: carrot and parsnip purée
[This week, we had apple pie with apples from our own tree, and I gave the Boy bananas from the constant supply I keep for my breakfast smoothies, but otherwise his food has been really easy and cheap to prepare.]
WEEK 3:
- Day 1 (Mon 14/09): breakfast: pear purée with baby cereal; lunch: potato and sweet potato purée
- Day 2 (Tue 15/09): breakfast: pear and apple purée [proportion – 2/3 apple, 1/3 pear] with baby cereal; lunch: potato and sweet potato purée
- Day 3 (Wed 16/09): breakfast: pear and apple purée with baby cereal; lunch: carrot and parsnip purée
- Day 4 (Thurs 17/09): breakfast: banana purée with baby cereal; lunch: sweet potato and peas purée
- Day 5 (Fri 18/09): breakfast: banana purée with baby cereal; lunch: sweet potato and peas purée
- Day 6 (Sat 19/09): breakfast: peach purée with baby cereal; lunch: courgette and carrot purée
- Day 7 (Sun 20/09): breakfast: peach purée with baby cereal; lunch: courgette and carrot purée
[This week, I bought peaches for the Girl, so I decided to introduce them for the baby as well. I made him courgette and carrot because it was on my list, but I must say, the taste was fairly unimpressive, and I’m not sure I will give them to him again until he can have them griddled or inside ratatouille.]
WEEK 4:
- Day 1 (Mon 21/09): breakfast: apple and pear purée; lunch: potato and sweet potato purée; dinner: peas and carrot purée
- Day 2 (Tue 22/09): breakfast: peach and banana with baby cereal; lunch: broccoli with sweet potato; dinner: peas and carrot
- Day 3 (Wed 23/09): breakfast: peach and banana with baby cereal; lunch: broccoli with sweet potato; dinner: potato and carrot
- Day 4 (Thurs 24/09): breakfast: peach and banana with baby cereal; lunch: broccoli with sweet potato; dinner: potato and carrot
- Day 5 (Fri 25/09): breakfast: apple and pear with baby cereal; lunch: squash; dinner: potato and carrot
- Day 6 (Sat 26/09): breakfast: apple and pear with baby cereal; lunch: squash; dinner: sweet potato and spinach
- Day 7 (Sun 27/09): breakfast: apple, peach and dried apricot; lunch: squash; dinner: sweet potato and spinach
[First week of 3 meals a day, and I used things that we mostly have at home – like broccoli, the Girl’s favourite, and which I always have in our fridge. I used a bit of the spinach we have for salad and deliberately bought seasonal squash for a bit of a change – sure enough, it was much more yellow and not quite as intensely flavourful as butternut squash.]
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