are there any foods you won't feed your LO?

swedish-fish

and if so, why? 

sunnygyrl

Just for gas reasons:

broccoli and lima beans.

eris1995

I haven't given him chocolate yet - for some reason I though you were supposed to wait on that?

He also hasn't had fish - but that's because I don't like fish and we don't have it in the house.

Other than that he eats pretty much everything.

ETA - we haven't introduced peanut butter or any other type of nuts.  We're probably waiting until at least 2.

southernbelle82

I haven't given her seafood.  I hate seafood so we don't fix it.  I'm sure if we go to the beach this summer she will get to try some of Daddy & Poppy's seafood b/c that's all they eat down there

azzyberry

The only thing that I am staying away from is Seafood (mercury) and peanut butter - or any nut containing products (allergy).  I am waiting until DS is two years old before I introduce these things.

Rubygirl

Raisins.  Choking hazard.  They gave them to him this morning at DC and I asked them to take them away.  He got choked on one the last time he had them.

swedish-fish

I'll answer my own question...

I haven't fed her peanuts or any other tree nuts or fish.  I'm on the fence about when I'll introduce nuts.  Probably after her 15-month appt.  I think I'll hold off on shellfish for a good while, perhaps when she's 2 or 3.  My brother has an allergy and I'm nervous she'll have one, too. 

mom2anangel

honey - because the pedi said to wait till she's past 2

peanuts/peanut butter - pedi said to wait and I'm too scared to try sooner

fish - just haven't gotten around to it.

I don't want her to develop any weird eating habits on account of me so I offer her things that I don't necessarily like so except for waiting on a few things due to potential allergy issues nothing is off limits I guess.

gbtc01

We haven't given her seafood or chinese food yet. Just because we ten to eat later and that we don't cook seafood. I can't stand the smell of it and the taste is worse.

Lisichka

DD hasn't had peanut butter or honey yet (though I love both). We haven't given her any fast food - I figure she'll have plenty of time to have that later.

columbiamommy

Hot dogs - because DH and I don't like them.

cbwm

Fish. Because I can't stand it. LOL

Other than that, anything (and I mean pretty much anything) is free game. Except for soda.

Aprilsies

Probably shell fish is the only thing right now I can think of...for allergy issues. She loves everything else.

 

Aprilsies

sunnygyrl:

Just for gas reasons:

broccoli and lima beans.

DD could seriously eat a bag of frozen broccoli it I let her. No major gas issues either witch is wierd.

summer2819

Sugar. Decided on that before he was born to wait til he was older, nothing good in it and he honestly wont eat it now after so long. Tried giving him a birthday cake and spit it out, tried 4 months later at my birthday. same thing. Wont even touch things like sweet potatoes that have brown sugar on them. But I take it as a good thing.

Fish and nuts due to entire family being allergic. 

RebekahtheWife

Meat. My DH wanted her to be able to decide for herself when she's older and understands what it is before she eats it. We actually became vegetarian because its easier to enforce this if we don't eat meat ourselves (and it was a nice bonus to lose 14 lbs. in the first 5 weeks).

Corn syrup. To the best of my ability I don't feed her anything with it. It's pretty much impossible to keep it out of her diet entirely, but at least I know she's not getting much...

mlf625

Candy, soda, juice.  He'll have plenty of time to develop his sweet tooth later in life.  

momtoRaegan041008

I haven't fed her seafood or Fish.  We only eat Perch and it's too high in Mercury I feel to give to her.  I was just scared she would have a reaction to seafood, plus I don't make it at home.

inbetweendreams

I won't feed DS meat that is factory farmed for environmental and ethical reasons. The source of meat (and treatment of livestock) for DH and DS is very important to me. That's really the only thing I'm a stickler about in our house.

Is that a more serious answer than you were looking for?

mrsseguin

Nuts.  My brother has a severe allergy, and we were told to wait until at least 3 years old to give him any kind of nuts.  We accidentally fed him walnuts one time, and thank God, he didn't have a reaction. 

mrsain1105

Sadly, we can't give her bananas.  They are her favorite, but we will have 2 days of constipation for every banana she eats.  DD has crazy constipation issues - to the point that we have to see a GI specialist.  We also have never giver her soda.  She has very little sugar in her diet, but I do allow some.

Rubygirl

azzyberry:

The only thing that I am staying away from is Seafood (mercury) and peanut butter - or any nut containing products (allergy).  I am waiting until DS is two years old before I introduce these things.

There was actually a study done recently that showed early introduction was better than waiting to avoid peanut allergies.  I read about it in a couple of parenting magazines last year and ended up giving DS peanut butter on crackers at around a year or so and he did fine.  I found a link to a story on one of the studies:

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE4A66IB20081107 

Totally an individual decision of course.  Our pedi suggested waiting 'til 2, but I'd already given him honey nut cheerios by that point and he'd had no reactions.   

olivejuice127

Just anything that doesn't have nutritional value.

Juice, candy, soda...?

SenoraKristin

I do not give her soda or juice.

I feed her everything else though - no allergies.

*sallymad*

Wow I feel like a horrible Mom now after reading all the responses...... 

Serendipity*

hotdogs just because dh and i don't eat them so i'm not going to give them to him and i think the other obvious ones are candy and soda. i don't drink soda and dh only does at work so he never sees us with anything but water, milk, or juice

Mia Wallace

Nothing really comes to mind other than not loading up on unhealthy foods.

keg

Juice and soda because there really isn't any reason too.  I try to limit other junk, but will give them a taste if we have something.

Popcorn because it's a choking hazard.

Haven't tried peanut butter yet, but ped said it was okay (which is strange because overall she's pretty conservative).

Haven't tried seafood other than fish because we haven't had any recently.

Erin0528

We don't give DD anything with HFCS.  I also keep her away from sweets as much as I can, but she does love her graham crackers (aka "cookies").

lanie30

Carbs. We have her on atkins.

Mrs Manners

lanie30:

Carbs. We have her on atkins.

This made me snort. Primarily because I am on atkins and ds is obsessed with eating whatever I'm eating.

As far as things we don't feed him...we really, really try to limit the amount of processed foods he eats. There are some in his diet, but not alot. We try to eat a natural food diet of mostly dairy, fruit, veggies, meats, nuts. We do this because I've spent 32 years of my life eating absolute crap and being overweight and having health problems to show for it. When I finally realized that ds was going to eat what I ate and model his food choices after mine, I did a complete 180 on what, when and how much I ate.

KeepingItLowKey

pretty much anything processed, fried, or high in sugar. Anything with HFCS, partially hydrogenated oils, MSG, artificial sweeteners, or nitrites. We're striving for fresh whole foods right now while we can. She has her whole life to develop unhealthy habits, but I'd rather have control while i can and not develop nay bad habits early. Because she doesn't know what she's missing, she doesn't ask for anything i wouldn't want her to have right now.