let's talk veggies...

flamencogal

What veggies is your DC eating? Scott is on all table food now for the most part but I'm having trouble working in enough veggies and I have a hard time even thinking of what to try.  He eats almost any fruit now but veggies are a different story, except for green beans which he generally gobbles up. So what veggies are you serving and how are you preparing/serving it?

ncbelle

We've only been at solids for a few weeks but so far kiddo loves chunks of roasted sweet potato, butternut squash and carrot.  We've also done green beans and carrots steamed.  He also had a bit of my zucchini and squash fritter last night and seemed to really like that.

jenhum

I was thinking about posting this exact same thing today. We are done with purees, but I keep wanting to buy more b/c I feel like she doesn't get enough veggies. I usually only give her veggies at dinner, although she does get carrots on ocassion for lunch.

Baby carrots (steamed and cut up)

Green peas

Green beans (steamed and cut up)

Black beans

Broccoli/Cauliflower/Carrot/Pea mix (steamed)

Sweet Potatoes (usually baked fries)

She also eats some of the Gerber Graduates meals which usually have several veggies in them, including edamame and spinach that I don't usually serve her.

It's just frustrating right now trying to fix veggies for her b/c she eats such small amounts and I feel bad making her eat the same thing 3 days in a row (although I don't know why).

raceyrae

Most of the veggies she gets are in the dishes we make vs. separate.  So she eats a lot of mushrooms, green peppers, onions, tomatoes (although I suppose that's a fruit), carrots.  She also gets peas as a finger food when our dish doesn't have a veggie in it..  She's not so into broccoli or green beans.

Oh, and tons of beans - kidney, lima, garbanzo, pinto -- almost every dish DH makes has some bean in it.

crescentmoon99

I feel like we have trouble working in enough veggies too.  I keep bags of frozen veggies in the freezer and heat up Liam-sized portions when I need to.  Like tonight, he had some mixed veggies while DH and I had corn on the cob.  For the most part, Liam's a pretty good veggie eater.  I mean he won't gobble a plate of broccoli, but he'll always eat some, and more if it's in stuff.

One way we sneak more in is that we'll often do a crockpot type meal or even mac n cheese, and then steam some fresh broccoli separate, but mix it in with the food when we feed it to him.  So it's got the nutritional value of being fresh steamed (vs cooked to death) but if you dip it in the cheese sauce or other sauce, he likes it much better.

We do a lot of steamed broccoli, mixed veggies, peas, corn, beans.  He's had spinach and collard greens (hit or miss depending on his mood).  We've got some lima beans in the freezer to try soon.  One of his favorites, and I think it counts as a veggie since it's made of garbanzo beans, is hummus.  Hummus on a pita or english muffin is one of his favorites for lunch.  He gobbles it up.