Starting Solids - What was the first non-rice food you gave to your baby? Did you introduce vegetables or fruit first?

DS has been eating rice cereal for about 2 weeks now. We plan to introduce him to his first flavored food this weekend. Originally we going to give DS bananas as his first food but today I was told we should start with a vegetable or else he will always prefer sweets over vegetables.

What was the first food you gave to your baby after rice cereal?

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We did the following in the following order
Oatmeal
bananas
green beans
apples
peas
pears
sweet potatoes
prunes
apricots
carrots
peaches
spinach

My ped says its a myth that they will only like fruits if you start with them...

Alexa's favorite thing to eat are green beans and then bananas.....

Have fun!

Re: Starting Solids - What was the first non-rice food you gave to your baby? Did you introduce vegetables or fruit first?

If memory serves me correctly you are BFIng right?? BM is super super sweet, so I wouldn't worry about veggies vs fruits in that respect. We went from rice cereal to oatmeal before introducing fruits/veggies. When we did start non-cereal, we did veggies: peas, carrots, sweet potato (in that order); then bananas, apples, string beans.

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my doc said to start with yellow/orange foods-- i.e. sweet potato, squash, carrots.

Re: Starting Solids - What was the first non-rice food you gave to your baby? Did you introduce vegetables or fruit first?

I started with the orange/yellow veggies...then went to the greens...then went to fruits.

Re: Starting Solids - What was the first non-rice food you gave to your baby? Did you introduce vegetables or fruit first?

sweet potatoes

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Re: Starting Solids - What was the first non-rice food you gave to your baby? Did you introduce vegetables or fruit first?

we did rice than oatmeal and then bananas.. the bananas constipated him so then we tried apples then pears...

good luck- its fun!

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Re: Starting Solids - What was the first non-rice food you gave to your baby? Did you introduce vegetables or fruit first?

I skipped the rice cereal and started with oatmeal.

oatmeal
carrots - DD didn't like the carrots
sweet potatos - she seems to like this.

That's all we've done so far since we only just started her on solids.

I may start her on a fruit tomorrow - possibly pears.

Re: Starting Solids - What was the first non-rice food you gave to your baby? Did you introduce vegetables or fruit first?

we did fruits first, started with pears.

Re: Starting Solids - What was the first non-rice food you gave to your baby? Did you introduce vegetables or fruit first?

Sweet potatoes, then peas, then apples, etc. I wanted to get her used to less sweet foods first.

She actually prefers peas over everything else.

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i started a small amount of fruit in the cereal b/c DS was making nasty faces

apples
banans
oatmeal
peaches
pears

we started jars of veggies
sweet pot
carrots
hated - green beans and peas, so i mixed them half and half with the orange veggies

DS loves bananas and mangoes, apples and apricots, and other mixes from nature's best

Re: Starting Solids - What was the first non-rice food you gave to your baby? Did you introduce vegetables or fruit first?

I introduced veggies first because they are not as tasty as fruits and I want DS to like veggies, (unlike his mommy) lol

I think after rice cereal we did peas. (which he hated) lol

Re: Starting Solids - What was the first non-rice food you gave to your baby? Did you introduce vegetables or fruit first?

The first was bananas I believe.