Parents of 8 mos olds... What type of food (non-baby jar) do you give your dc?

Just curious!

Gianna has already eaten:

sliced banana (teeny pieces)
avocado
cheerios

and I would like to introduce more foods to her, but I'm not sure what, how much and what time of day to give this to her. When I do give these foods to her, it's usually at her lunchtime or dinner feeding.

What have you guys been doing, or what have you done in the past?

Thanks!!!

T

Re: Parents of 8 mos olds... What type of food (non-baby jar) do you give your dc?

Alexa has gotten a lot of what we have eaten for dinner.....itty bitty slivers of steak, chicken, cheeseburger, beans, pizza crust and even had Red Lobster cheddar bay biscuits last week

Her ped gave the go ahead on everything ( aside from the obvious peanut products, honey etc....) If its something we feel she can handle we let her experiment with it at meal time

Re: Parents of 8 mos olds... What type of food (non-baby jar) do you give your dc?

I give my DD everything we eat and I've done so since she was 6 months old. (She has no teeth either and she does just fine) She eats chicken, turkey, cheese, pasta, hamburgers, fruits, veggies, eggs, pancakes, waffles, etc. I just put pieces of it on her tray and she feeds herself. When she's had enough she stops eating. She still gets four 6oz. bottles a day as well but she's slowly been eliminating one of those bottles.

Edit - She's almost 1 now.

Message edited 8/27/2009 11:01:20 PM.

Re: Parents of 8 mos olds... What type of food (non-baby jar) do you give your dc?

anything we ate... he loved pizza and pancakes at that point..we also started eggs (as per ped ot was ok)....

Re: Parents of 8 mos olds... What type of food (non-baby jar) do you give your dc?

Yogurt, cheese, mango, mashed sweet potatoes, waffles

Re: Parents of 8 mos olds... What type of food (non-baby jar) do you give your dc?

im mostly vegetarian (except when im preggo and crave meat for whatever odd reason) but i did give dd chicken, and she hates it so thats fine with me..

i give her broccolli florets
cauliflower pieces
black eyed peas
lima beans
banana
avocado
cheddar cheese pieces
cottage cheese
whole wheat pastina (she hates it)
every fruit you can imagine
peach
papaya
mango
yogurt (yo baby)

Message edited 8/28/2009 9:27:34 AM.

Re: Parents of 8 mos olds... What type of food (non-baby jar) do you give your dc?

I haven't given much yet, but DS eats puffs, mum mums, yogurt and either small pieces of fruit or fruit through a mesh feeder (so far watermelon, cantaloupe, and bananas). I plan on giving him cheese this weekend and I'll probably try egg yolks sometime over the next few weeks.

Re: Parents of 8 mos olds... What type of food (non-baby jar) do you give your dc?

pancakes
toast
avocado
swiss cheese (she didn't like it)
Mashed Sweet Potatoes
Butternut Squash
Summer Squash
Pastina
Cut up ziti pieces.

Re: Parents of 8 mos olds... What type of food (non-baby jar) do you give your dc?

banana
avocado
cheddar cheese pieces
cottage cheese
every fruit you can imagine
yogurt (yo baby)
chicken
eggs
whole wheat pastina (DD LOATHES IT)
turkey meatballs

Re: Parents of 8 mos olds... What type of food (non-baby jar) do you give your dc?

my ped said no table food until 9 months. with my first DD, I gave most of the foods posted above.

Re: Parents of 8 mos olds... What type of food (non-baby jar) do you give your dc?

DS has really had no interest in table food. I have tried mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, pastina, chicken, egg yolks, broccoli and he spits it all out.

Right now he wants everything pureed. He does eat soy yogurt in additon to baby food and he loves to suck/chew on a dairy free teething cookie I found.

I would like to give him more, but I won't force it on him, I'm sure he'll let us know when he's ready

ETA: I do give him fruits in the mesh feeder, he'll chew on them for a minute or so before losing interest.

Message edited 8/29/2009 2:07:22 PM.

Re: Parents of 8 mos olds... What type of food (non-baby jar) do you give your dc?

Sweet Potato
Mini pitas-torn up
french toast sticks
pancakes-bisquick water and jar baby fruit or veg-squash, bananna, peach etc
Polenta
elbow noodles
Made a puree as a "sauce"-garbanzo beans, peas, garlic and white pepper
potato
carrots
bananna
peaches
Puffs0Happy Bellies makes a "green" puff I also iuse Targets peach mango(very sweet) bananna and sweet potato
My son is allergic to apples, pears dairy and peanut which is why i don't have any of those