Getting One Year Old to Eat Veges

I am in the same boat. Unfortunately I stopped giving him the baby food and now I can't get him to eat that either. He is 20 months and just the other day I got him to eat a little bit of peas until I gave him meat and then he didn't want the peas anymore. Try offering the vegies first and don't let her see the other stuff. Otherwise just keep giving her the baby food so she'll get the nutrients. Good Luck, C.

my son (15 months) still does this even though he has been eating table food and solid veggies since 9 months. the only way i can get him to eat his veggies is to either add melted cheese or to mash it up and mix it with a potato. just about any veggie will work to mash up and its fun for them too even when they get older. i tried it 1st with my niece and nephew (3 and 5) and they loved it and thought it was really neat to eat green or red "mashed potatoes".

My daughter will be 2 at the end of August and she still prefers the baby food veggies mostly. We are getting her to eat more and more veggies that she has to chew up, but to guarantee that she gets them we feed her the veggies, or she does and makes quite a mess, but she has fun at it. We figured that it was a little sacrifice to get her to eat veggies. Try some small stuff periodically and eventually something will work out.

K.,
I am so glad you posted this! We are going through the same thing with my daughter, 14 months, except it's with both fruits and veggies. She'll eat crackers, cherrios, cheese, toast, waffles, pancakes, etc but won't touch the other stuff unless if pureed. I thought we were the only ones...The only thing I have discovered with the other items is that I just have to put it on her tray and keep letting her try it. I still feed her the jarred food, but I know she will eat them eventually. They say sometimes you have to offer foods up to 20 times before children will eat them.

I had trouble with my son until I boiled them and added shredded cheddar cheese. Works like a charm! Zucchini, squash, and green peppers do very well this way.

K., It's good that you want your child to eat veggies. I know some kids (and adults)that won't eat anything green. When my son was one and eating 'finger foods', I gave him DelMonte green beans. I put them on his plate, cold, not warmed up, and let him play. It worked because they were soft and he could pick them up with his fingers. He was doing so well I gave him some more until he ate the whole can. His teacher at the day care had something to say about it the next day when she changed his diaper. Just keep trying with your little one. There is a saying, you have to put it in front of them 20 times before they actually adjust to a new food. K. L.

With kids I think it's best to take what you can get. Keep offering the whole veggies but give her the baby veggies if she turns them down.

K.,
I had the same problem when my daughter was little. I just mixed the two. Little bit at a time. Most of the time its about the diffrence in the texture between baby food and real food.
I also mixed the veggies in other things she liked. Rice cereal.
The other thought would be getting the real veggies and and putting them in a blender and making them just as creamy as the real baby food. Then work up to the chunky stuff later.
Did you give her the foods that would feed a toddler or the older babies?
I know it how this can drive you nuts, but let me tell you that what you have coming up in the next two years this will be a walk in the park.
The picky eating and the not eating at all or only wanting this or that. I end up throwing more food away, then anything else. Looking back I wish it was as easy as finding the right texture of food. Hang in there and keep working at it.
I really wish the babies would come with owners manuals. I spend most of my time reading about what I should be doing or not doing with my child or ideas about what to do with what she is or isn't doing.
The only thing that will keep you sane is knowing your not alone!! Out there somewhere is someone going through the same things.
Congrats on baby # 2.