I feel really silly asking this, but please bear with me. Re: food for baby

DS has been eating solids since 6 months. I make all of his food. He started with pureed fruits and veggies and now I just steam and cut up or very lightly mash (so it's still chunky but not too solid).

We started chicken (shredded with my fingers or little bite sized pieces). He LOVES chicken.

He tasted turkey at Thanksgiving and liked it, but we don't really make turkey throughout the year.

He LOVES spanish rice too. He ate a whole plate of it the other day! Not adult sized plate, but still).

I bought mini pancakes and he can easily eat 4 of them for breakfast. I've given them plain since I have no idea how else to give them to him, and besides, he eats them on his own so anything on them and he'd make a mess.

I still give him oatmeal made with formula.

But um, what else?

I feel like he needs to be eating more stuff, more variety of stuff, rather.

What can I give him for breakfast?

I'm going to try pasta for him - what types are best? How do I cook it (I assume cook longer than usual so it's softer, right?). Can I use any sauces? I assume so, but are any better than others for their little tummies?

I'm not stressing too bad about it just yet since he's not 1 year old yet, but I want to make sure I'm giving him enough variety and not literally the same exact thing every day.

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Yesi this sounds amaaaazing! Lucky henry!!!

I still add fresh or frozen blueberries to S's mini pancakes, he loves them. At around 1 year I would nuke the berries right with the pcakes, to soften them up, then moosh them with the fork a bit.

For pasta, ds won't eat it but I've tried everything, whole wheat, plain, flavored, colored, bowties, angel hair, with sauce, without sauce, moist from the cooking water, dried with a paper towel, NOTHING. Won't even try it

Have you tried scrambled eggs for breakfast?

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I tried anything we ate with her

So Salmon, catfish, etc
Veggies of all types, beans, peas, brocolli, asparagus, etc
pasta in red sauce, alfredo, etc
pretty much everything.

Good luck

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Some good things for when they are starting out:

Ditalini pasta with some red sauce, or a teeny bit of melted butter (if you do it this way throw some peas in there)

I give Quaker oatmeal
Pancakes
Cheese slices
Meatballs
Baked Ziti
Turkey Meatballs
Turkey breast
Grilled Chicken
Pork Chops
Mashed sweet potato
Raviolis
Gnocchi
Zucchini with some olive oil
Any of the Dr. Pragers selections.
Asparagus
Cheeseburger


I will think of some more! By a year he was fully eating anything that I ate.

Message edited 1/6/2011 2:57:09 PM.

Re: I feel really silly asking this, but please bear with me. Re: food for baby

ds eats the eggo mini pancakes too and loves them. I give them to him with a cup of yogurt, or a banana.

i ditched teh baby oatmeal and will make quaker instant oatmeal.

i got him to eat hummus on thin rolls for lunch last week. Maybe try that on a pita and break it into pieces.

mashed potatoes, french fries, raviolis, any sort of pasta with sauce, pizza, stuffing, green beans DS Loves.

i havent started on blue berries yet or grapes..im afraid of choking hazard.

english muffins or toast with peanut butter he will also eat.
and PBJ sandwhiches he eats too.

chicken is so so, turkey is ok too so far. Beef..no likey just yet.

Re: I feel really silly asking this, but please bear with me. Re: food for baby

Logan's favorite food is scrambled eggs - sometimes with cheese and spinach, or mushroom and peppers, or sometimes just plain!

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Yesi, if he doesn't have any allergy or sensitivity issues, give him whatever!!

Luce has been eating sauce on his pasta since about 8 months, maybe even earlier.

I made him ravioletti, tortellini, ziti, noodles. spaghetti and other long pastas are a ***** to cut up though. with some red sauce or some melted cheese (quick mac n cheese) or some butter or oil with parma!!!

for breakfast he eats farina, french toast, oatmeal, eggs, nutella on oat toast or croissants with banans. always has cut up fruit at breakfast. this morning he had a banana cut up with 3 kings cake. I also make things like banana bread, coffee "cake", and pumpkin bread and I give him that too.

for lunch he gets leftovers from dinner or eggs, beans, lentil soup, whatever.

he loves soup. beans, meat. haven't met a meat he wouldn't eat!

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I've been giving DS whatever we eat since he was about 10 months.

Last night he ate cheese and chicken quesadillas, rice, beans.

He love baked ziti, meatballs, lasagna, stuffed shells. These were early favorites.

I would just cook for yourself and give him whatever you make to try.

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Re: I feel really silly asking this, but please bear with me. Re: food for baby

Joey eats/tries everything we eat for dinner.

Some of his favorites are:

TJs Turkey Meatballs
TJs Meatballs
Pasta - homemade sauce (any WW pasta)
Waffles - any kind
Mini-pancakes
english muffin
eggs
quiche - LOVES quiche, so I fill it with veggies
Veggie burgers - dr. praegers & Amy's Cheddar ones! (Yummy)
chicken burgers
tukery burgers
regular burgers
Spinach,sweet potato, broccoli pancakes (praeger again)

I try veggies every night - sometimes he has no clue he's eating them, sometime he does

Fruits- I have yet to come across a fruit he doesn't like.

He spit out steak the other night (shredded)

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DD pretty much eats what I eat.

Today we had scrambled eggs for breakfast and grilled cheese for lunch. Tonight I'm making turkey tacos and I will give her ground turkey before the seasonings (she has had other seasonings but this isn't necessary with the sodium content) and diced up tomatoes and lettuce.

She has had almost every fruit & veggie (from blueberries mangoes, strawberries, to celery, avocado, beets, zucchini). Salmon & flounder. Chicken (steamed, breaded, francaise style), beef, turkey. French toast, pancakes, waffles. Meatballs with garlic and onions.

Go for it!

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Yesi, I pretty much let Adam try whatever we are eating. He's had:

spaghetti & meatballs (meatballs had garlic & onions in it)
chicken & mushrooms in alfredo sauce
hummus
chick peas
tofu (he LOVES tofu!)
steak
spinach
cheese ravioli
ziti
meatloaf
tomatoes
grilled chicken
sweet potatoes
zucchini
beets
papaya
eggplant
lentil soup
all the 'usual' fruits like pears, apples, bananas, mangos, etc.
squash
peas
soybeans
rice pilaf
waffles/pancakes

Re: I feel really silly asking this, but please bear with me. Re: food for baby

Thanks everyone!

I guess part of the problem is that DH and I don't eat much of a variety of food either, lol. Gotta work on that.

Re: I feel really silly asking this, but please bear with me. Re: food for baby