What Does Your Baby Eat?

My 7mo eats brown rice cereal with apple juice for breakfast and carrots with green beans or potatoes for lunch. Between he has mommy's pumped milk. In the evenings and early mornings I nurse. On the weekends, he is pretty much strictly nursed, unless Daddy or Grammy feed him. The only baby food I buy is formula (to supplement milk when necessary) and cereal. I am trying to avoid buying baby food and just mash certain foods that I want him to try. I buy his food fresh (even the green beans) and cook it myself and mash it. For this first year, I don't even want him to eat restaurant food...nothing that doesn't come out of a kitchen that I trust with his little stomach. Maybe too protective, but I don't care.

I make my own food for our 9 month old, in addition to purchasing jars. Unlike your baby, mine opens his mouth to everything!! His 26 lbs reflects that!

I always recommend this website to moms who are looking for baby food ideas: http://wholesomebabyfood.momtastic.com/

The easiest things for me have been:

baking sweet potatoes and then mashing them, or taking the "meat" out of them and blending it with some breastmilk in a baby bullet. You can then freeze some and keep some for immediate use. Same with avocado.

I also just mash up a banana, add a little breastmilk, stir and serve!

Good luck!

I used all homemade food but didn't start giving it to them until they were each over 7-8 months. I wish I had some better advice but the only thing I did was hop on here and cafemom for some great advice on what was best and when was it best to feed them.
Good Luck!

At 7 months, our little one loved sweet potatoes, peas, pears, carrots, apple sauce, peaches, prunes, green beans, oatmeal, bananas, rice, ground beef, potato, egg yolks, watermelon, and those organic slushy foods in the packets i.e. the green one, the red one, the orange one. He was also incredibly fond of summer vegetable medley, and yogurt.

Just keep offering, I'm sure she'll come around.

One trick we tried, is to offer 3 bites of a favorite, and then sandwich in a bite of something he didn't love. He barely noticed the substitution, and you can get a lot of the disliked food in that way.

Good luck and enjoy.

Well, I became lazy with my 2nd child, and it worked great. I put him in his highchair at meals, and put very small pieces of whatever we were having on his tray (dry cereal and bananas at breakfast, bread, lunchmeat, soft fruit like canned peaches at lunch, pieces of ground beef, soft-cooked green beans, rice, at dinner, etc). If he wanted to try it, he did. If he didn't want to try it, he didn't. I gave him big enough pieces that he could pick it up himself and pretty much skipped baby food, with the exception of one bowl of cereal with fruit before bed to help him sleep better :). And it's totally fine. Babies don't need solid food at this age. They get nutrition from breastmilk/formula. The food is just for experimenting with. So let her do that at her own pace. No need to think of meals that are different from what you are already eating.

I didn't even finish one package/tub of rice cereal when my son was a baby. I filled him up with fruits and veggies and everything else first.
One thing he loved was bananas. He ate almost a whole banana for breakfast. I don't remember at exactly what age he was at - but I'd hand him the whole banana (peeled) and he'd hold it and eat bites till he was full or until the banana was gone. One a day.

His first veggie was yellow squash. I cooked it in the skillet, whizzzed it in the food processor (mini Cuisinart). I'd add rice cereal if it was too runny. Did the same with zuchinni.

As he got older I'd give him beans. I'd cook them fresh, put them in the food processor with a little bit of olive oil and salt, sometimes add rice. After 1 yr of age, I'd add chicken to the beans/rice mix.

In the fall, I'd cook him yams (sweet potato). Yams are a little bit sweeter. I'd just bake them like a potato and once the sugars started oozing out of the holes, they were done. He loved them.

I'd buy pear and apple, cook those on the stove. Sometimes I'd add strawberries, then dice/mash/whizz it in the processor.

To answer you question, we fed him everything 'allowed' or 'suggested' on www.wholesomebabyfood.com -- there was a chart about what foods are safest for what age (due to common allergic reactions). I put checkmarks on that chart and gave him just about everything on that list. He's a great eater now and will eat almost anything.