I feel like I’m half-asking food for my 7mo

[Anonymous]

Soft scrambled egg, tiny cubes of ripe avocado, smashed blueberries and raspberries, mushy steamed peas, mashed black beans, homemade hummus (garbanzo beans and evoo, no garlic), steamed and mashed apple or pear, finely diced soft peaches etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Give him food off your plate as long as it's not spicy or citrus. This is how we got our kids started. They're very healthy and eat everything

This is what I do. Except also spicy and citrus -- my kid refused plain rice but loved it with a bit of curry. OP, I am the queen of half-assing food for my babies because I simply don't bother to make them separate meals. I recommend leaning into it.

i'm still wondering about citrus.

i've read a lot about the importance limiting salt under 1. i don't see how that works if they're eating from my plate, unless I eat underseasoned food.

-- not OP

I didn’t worry about the salt. 🤷‍♀️

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Give him food off your plate as long as it's not spicy or citrus. This is how we got our kids started. They're very healthy and eat everything

This is what I do. Except also spicy and citrus -- my kid refused plain rice but loved it with a bit of curry. OP, I am the queen of half-assing food for my babies because I simply don't bother to make them separate meals. I recommend leaning into it.

i'm still wondering about citrus.

i've read a lot about the importance limiting salt under 1. i don't see how that works if they're eating from my plate, unless I eat underseasoned food.

-- not OP

I didn’t worry about the salt. 🤷‍♀️

For the little amount of food she ate off my plate didn’t worry about salt. But she did enjoy grabbing the lemon slice and biting into it and chewing the rind. This was around 13 months though. Never heard about avoiding citrus. At 7 months I would peel mandarin slices for her so she just got the inner part of the piece.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Give him food off your plate as long as it's not spicy or citrus. This is how we got our kids started. They're very healthy and eat everything

This is what I do. Except also spicy and citrus -- my kid refused plain rice but loved it with a bit of curry. OP, I am the queen of half-assing food for my babies because I simply don't bother to make them separate meals. I recommend leaning into it.

i'm still wondering about citrus.

i've read a lot about the importance limiting salt under 1. i don't see how that works if they're eating from my plate, unless I eat underseasoned food.

-- not OP

I didn’t worry about the salt. 🤷‍♀️

For the little amount of food she ate off my plate didn’t worry about salt. But she did enjoy grabbing the lemon slice and biting into it and chewing the rind. This was around 13 months though. Never heard about avoiding citrus. At 7 months I would peel mandarin slices for her so she just got the inner part of the piece.

Yeah the only thing I avoid really aggressively is honey. I don’t put a lot of salt in my cooked dishes and it’s easy enough to offer the baby things before I eg put (salted) butter on them.

[Anonymous]

I ran a baby food company and this is what I know: Give your baby spices early on. Flavors. Give your baby what you eat yourself. My babies who I did the whole rice cereal, banana, bland food thing are all very food sensitive. They don't like this or that. But my last baby - who I had while running the baby food company - got brazilian black beans and indian curries - she ate right off my plate from the start. I mashed it up and fed it to her.

Baby food companies had a reason to make American moms want to feed their kids pre-made cereals and bland foods first - they have to buy them from the companies. But that's led to a whole generation of kids that will only eat chicken nuggets and ketchup.

[Anonymous]

For those folks saying that they fed their kids diverse, flavored foods from a young age -- so did we. One kid is, nonetheless, extremely picky (he's 7) and one is not. Some of it is a crapshoot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Salmon is super easy to prepare for a little one.

Anything you want them to eat in the future, now is the time to be giving it. I'm all about green vegetables.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I ran a baby food company and this is what I know: Give your baby spices early on. Flavors. Give your baby what you eat yourself. My babies who I did the whole rice cereal, banana, bland food thing are all very food sensitive. They don't like this or that. But my last baby - who I had while running the baby food company - got brazilian black beans and indian curries - she ate right off my plate from the start. I mashed it up and fed it to her.

Baby food companies had a reason to make American moms want to feed their kids pre-made cereals and bland foods first - they have to buy them from the companies. But that's led to a whole generation of kids that will only eat chicken nuggets and ketchup.

Oh stop. As a baby, my kid got both the typical pre-made food and a variety of food off of our plates. He loved all kinds of food until he was 2, then became more picky. Now at 4, he's starting to branch out again. I'm confident he will grow out of it and we keep exposing him to a variety of food. This picky phase is extremely common. You just got lucky with your last kid.