Simple Baby Meal Planner and Tracker

I did not anticipate deciding and making meals would be one of the most stressful parts of being a new parent, but for me it kinda is. My daughter is ten months old, has been on solids since six months. It was mostly purées which was easy, then around 8 months I become more confident at giving her finger foods and full meals. I thought it would be really fun, but it is not. Mostly because I myself do not eat great, for most of my life everything I eat has been from a packet or can, huge fan of anything quick and easy, with mostly zero prep on my end. Safe to say, I hate cooking and always have, so the things I eat are usually not the most healthy or nutritious. That’s when my issue begins, because I always hear people say to just give baby what you’re having, but I can’t exactly give her spicy ramen and microwave meals. It doesn’t help that she is not a fan of most meal components, like eggs, bread, rice, tortillas, cheese, chicken or fish. She likes pasta though, and so do I, so we end up eating more pasta than I’d like to admit. Even that is not for certain though and can often end up thrown on the floor. She loves her fruit and baby puffs, she can easily plow through a punnet and a half of raspberries a day, which in this economy unfortunately is not cheap. Still, if it’s all she’ll eat then I will make sure she has it. So yeahh, every meal time is a struggle and I spend a lot of time agonising over what to make for her. I definitely push myself out of my comfort zone daily to try cook new things for her but most of the time it’s not eaten, and my already very little motivation to cook is further depleted. I feel so bad though when there’s days, which is often, that all she’s eaten is raspberries and gerber puffs, not for lack of trying, but I can’t force feed her so I just try to accept it. She still nurses pretty frequently but I’m weaning at a year so I worry about solids becoming her main nutrition soon. I feel like a shitty mom because of it, and I’m trying to take it as an opportunity to hopefully start eating better myself since I don’t want her eating habits to be modelled off mine, but it’s tough, that’s all I can say.