Seeking Baby Food Ideas

Keep offering her the veggies and fruits. Don't give her what you know she shouldn't have. She WILL eat when she gets hungry. Children don't usually starve just because their picky. ;)

I also have a 10-month and have a similar situation to yours. I was thinking about noodles and some bland sauce, cheessticks, & maybe some rice. Haven’t tried them on my little one so hopefully it will help you!!! Good luck.

Have you been to the website www.wholesomebabyfood.com? I make most of my son's food and love their recipes, advice, articles, etc. My 11 month old's current fave is thinly sliced bananas dipped in pancake batter and grilled. They freeze great too. They also have a great article on spicing up food and what's okay for what age. Good luck!

I do grilled cheese (one slice of bread on bottom) , ground spaghetti, canned organic green beans, cheese pizza, veggie lasagna, cooked apples with cinnamon and sugar, bananas, canned peaches, lunch meat in little pieces, ground hamburger cooked, macaroni cooked, canned beans...tri-colored organic are great- cereal bars cut up, ...and then sometimes I think if I'm giving her a whole wheat cracker or an organic cookie, it is okay. She loves to drink her whole milk (I'm an organic girl), and sne loves soy milk, and loves to drink juice, and yes I do organic, and just once a day. These are all things she can eat with just eight front teeth. If I eat spicy or odd foods, I cut or grind it where she can taste and eat. Usually she likes it.

Anything you eat as long as you can mush it up, cut it up into pea-sized pieces and isn't too hard. Spicy is OK too in small amounts.

Besides fruits and veggies, you could try polenta,vermicelli, cous cous, pasta, rice.......ground meats, yogurt.......

My baby girl is the same way and started that at about 5 months. I usually do oatmeal, yogurt or soggy cherrios for breakfast. Lunch usually consists of some turkey, string cheese and maybe some applesauce. I usually make up this big pot of chicken and rice soup and she eats that often. Take chicken stalk/broth 1 cup carrots, 1 cup celery, 1/2 cup brown rice, season 1-2 chicken breasts as desired, I usually use garlic powder, seasoning salt, celery seed, and onion salt, bring brown chicken, add broth, rice and veggies, simmer until tender. Make sure all veggies are chopped up small enough for your little one and let them enjoy. All of the options above are pretty healthy and she loves them, let me know if you need more ideas.

I bought frozen mixed vegetables and just boiled them until they were pretty mushy. I put them in little condiment sized tupperware containers so they were properly portioned and portable. For an change, I would diced up and bake sweet potatoes or butternut squash. I also gave her deli turkey or chicken for protein, sometimes scrambled eggs. For everyday stuff you eat, try running a pizza cutter over it. It quickly shreds food into small pieces. If your looking for a portable treat, try peaches or pears in those single serve plastic containers. You can just stash a few in the diaper bag and you always have a snack. They'll keep forever. If you can get her to go for it, Walmart sells some vegatables in those containers.

I like to steam up a whole bunch of veggies and then freeze them in little zip locks or small tupperware. i can get just as much as I need out to feed my son. He loves all veggies (esp califower and asparugus). We also bake up sweet potaoes, diced, sprinked with cinnamen, or do the same with apples. We do soy nuggets, fresh fruit, avocaodo, pasta, grilled cheese, anything really is good. Just stay away from sugar and salt. They do not need it and it is really not good for them

I found a great cookbook that has recipes for all ages, it's called First Meals, by Annabel Karmel. The best part about the book is that it allows you to make food in bulk and then freeze it for easy to grab meals later. It does take time to make them, but then I store them in the leftover containers I have from all of the gerber stuff to make sure it's the right portion. It also makes sure that I am exposing him to foods that I use regularly like onions, but it starts with mild leeks and then moves up from there. My son's favorites include the cheesey chicken brocolli, he loves the chicken potato balls, the veggie bites and for breakfast, frozen blueberries with chunks of bananas. Like others, I also prep up yellow squash, sweet potatoes and other veggies in the same individual packages. I've also found that fruit is a huge favorite, especially watermelon and cantelope cut into small pieces. Good luck!

if she wants to eat what you are eating, just take out a portion for her before you add you spices.

Our son was like that also. We couldn't get him to eat things that didn't have some kind of spice flavoring added. We stayed away from the salt but he ate whatever spices we put on our food (garlic, etc.). We let him because his pediatrician said it wouldn't hurt him and it was the only way he liked his food.
We were living in a community that had a large hispanic population and their children are fed spicy food as soon as they change over to table food.
Our son was eating salsa by 13 months and grabbed a banana pepper off my husband's plate at 16 months and had it in his mouth before we could stop him. He took a bite, cried, we gave him a drink, and he promptly grabbed for another bite, cried, got a drink and so on until it was gone.
We would have been horrified and never let him have it if we hadn't just read an article that doctor's in California were saying it was ok and even in some ways could be beneficial if they have spicy or spiced food.
To this day, our son will not eat food or veggies unless i add some kind of flavoring to it. He is very healthy, and very willing to try all kinds of foods that many other toddlers turn their nose up at.