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Baby Food vs. Big People Food
Hi. My son is 12 mo. old now and I am having an extremely hard time
switching him over to big boy food. He ONLY wants baby food in jars. He'll eat crackers and peas, but that's about it. He screams hysterically when I show him the "big boy" food. When I say big boy food, I mean Mac&Cheese, spaghetti, cheese balls, etc. In fact he didn't even want anything to do with his birthday cake! If I pull out a baby food jar he opens wide. I even tried blending his food to give it that baby food texture. He might take one bite, but when he realizes it's not Gerber, he tries to pull the food out of his mouth and starts crying. I'm stumped! Do I give in and just keep giving him baby food or is there some secret I haven't heard about? Suggestions are welcome! Thanks! Amy |
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Baby Food vs. Big People Food
Amy Hunt wrote:
Hi. My son is 12 mo. old now and I am having an extremely hard time switching him over to big boy food. He ONLY wants baby food in jars. He'll eat crackers and peas, but that's about it. He screams hysterically when I show him the "big boy" food. When I say big boy food, I mean Mac&Cheese, spaghetti, cheese balls, etc. In fact he didn't even want anything to do with his birthday cake! If I pull out a baby food jar he opens wide. I even tried blending his food to give it that baby food texture. He might take one bite, but when he realizes it's not Gerber, he tries to pull the food out of his mouth and starts crying. I'm stumped! Do I give in and just keep giving him baby food or is there some secret I haven't heard about? Suggestions are welcome! Thanks! Amy Have you tried putting the mac and cheese in a baby food jar when he isn't looking and then opening it up in front of him with the mac 'n' cheese inside? What if you accidentally ran out of baby food? What would he eat then? scott |
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He's too smart for the old switch-a-roo routine. As far as running out of
baby food...he does eat yogurt, bananas, peas, crackers and other little things, just not family meals. I'm working on it! Amy Have you tried putting the mac and cheese in a baby food jar when he isn't looking and then opening it up in front of him with the mac 'n' cheese inside? What if you accidentally ran out of baby food? What would he eat then? scott |
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Amy Hunt wrote: Hi. My son is 12 mo. old now and I am having an extremely hard time switching him over to big boy food. He ONLY wants baby food in jars. He'll eat crackers and peas, but that's about it. He screams hysterically when I show him the "big boy" food. When I say big boy food, I mean Mac&Cheese, spaghetti, cheese balls, etc. In fact he didn't even want anything to do with his birthday cake! If I pull out a baby food jar he opens wide. I even tried blending his food to give it that baby food texture. He might take one bite, but when he realizes it's not Gerber, he tries to pull the food out of his mouth and starts crying. I'm stumped! Do I give in and just keep giving him baby food or is there some secret I haven't heard about? Suggestions are welcome! Thanks! 12 months is about the time to switch to solid food (meaning baby food, not milk). It may be a bit early for the foods you are trying for this particular child. Twelve months is a bit early for cake. Commercial baby food in jars are (in my opinion) a mistake ever to introduce to children---many are so loaded with sugar that the children start expecting high doses of sugar in everything. What are his favorite flavors? Carrots, peas? Try making home versions of those (blended still---chewing may still be a barrier to new foods). A good early food is baby oatmeal, cooked in breast milk. If you are not breast feeding and there is no allergy to cow's milk, then baby oatmeal cooked in cow's milk is good to try also. Cook the stuff with enough liquid that it is quite soft (not quite runny)---as the kid gets older you can switch him to oatmeals with more texture. -- Kevin Karplus http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~karplus life member (LAB, Adventure Cycling, American Youth Hostels) Effective Cycling Instructor #218-ck (lapsed) Professor of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz Undergraduate and Graduate Director, Bioinformatics Affiliations for identification only. |
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Baby Food vs. Big People Food
Hi. My son is 12 mo. old now and I am having an extremely hard time
switching him over to big boy food. He ONLY wants baby food in jars. Have you tried the "stages" baby foods that come in jars, but have chunks in them? |
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Baby Food vs. Big People Food
Amy wrote in rs.com:
He's too smart for the old switch-a-roo routine.**As*far*as*running*out*of baby food...he does eat yogurt, bananas, peas, crackers and other little things, just not family meals.**I'm*working*on*it! Is he fussy about which jars he has, or does he eat most of them? If he eats a wide variety, it might be the texture that matters. A friend of mine had this problem: she solved it using 'real people' food of the same flavour as the jars. So she would mash a very tiny amount - about a teaspoon of Heinz Baked Beans (in tomato sauce, a ubiquitous UK side dish) to a jar of Heinz Baby Baked Beans. Her baby accepted that, so she gradually upped the percentage of real baked beans to baby baked beans. -- Penny Gaines UK mum to three |
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Baby Food vs. Big People Food
Yes, I've tried the stage 3 food, but he does not like the texture. If I
had it to do over again, I would be making his baby food, not buying it in jars. I guess I will just keep experimenting until I find something he likes. Thanks. Amy |
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"Kevin Karplus" wrote in message ... Commercial baby food in jars are (in my opinion) a mistake ever to introduce to children---many are so loaded with sugar that the children start expecting high doses of sugar in everything. Well, at least here in the US, the ONLY ones that have any added sugar in them are clearly labeled as DESERT, so the sugar thing is a non-issue for jar foods. |
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Baby Food vs. Big People Food
Well, at least here in the US, the ONLY ones that have any added sugar in
them are clearly labeled as DESERT, so the sugar thing is a non-issue for jar foods. Sure it's not added sand? ;-) |
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Baby Food vs. Big People Food
In article s.com,
Amy wrote: Yes, I've tried the stage 3 food, but he does not like the texture. If I had it to do over again, I would be making his baby food, not buying it in jars. I guess I will just keep experimenting until I find something he likes. Thanks. IME, 1yos often start showing an interest in what everyone else is eating. I would keep giving him his jars, but do it at the dinner table while everyone else is eating a regular meal. Eventually he may want to try a bite of what you have. You might also try mixing a little stage 3 food into a stage 2 jar of the same type, to get him used to a little more texture, gradually. Good luck, and don't worry. --Robyn |
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