Another food post...

Rachel5782

How often is you LO eating green veggies?  Usually for breakfast, LO will eat puree fruit or yogurt/some sort of grain w/ fruit mixed in.  For lunch, it's usually a meat/veggie (usually sweet potatoes or carrots) mix puree and for dinner I try whatever table food I have around the house.  It may be vegetables but it may be something else (tonight it was mashed potatoes and turkey). 

I feel like I'm not giving him enough green vegetables.  I try to give him leftoever veggies from our usual dinners (broccoli, peas, etc), but he kinda just puts it in his mouth and sucks on it or lets it sit in his mouth without swallowing.  Pure green veggie purees (peas or green beans) don't usually go over well with him and I'm lucky if I can get him to eat some if I mix it with fruit he likes.  He likes cucumber, but that's about it.

Anyone else have this issue?

cfisher2008

Make a smoothie and add spinach. You can add alot of spinach before you can taste it. I do this for DD at least 4x/week- she loves it!

Rachel5782

cfisher2008:

Make a smoothie and add spinach. You can add alot of spinach before you can taste it. I do this for DD at least 4x/week- she loves it!

How do you get her to drink it?? Straw?? LO doesn't drink from a straw yet.

CarlaAndJames

DD loves spinach in smoothies too, I usually give it to her in a regular cup and help her some, it just makes a big mess

But she likes green veggies only second to meat - her favorites being asparagus (she LOVES asparagus! She pulles it across her teeth and gets all the meat out and leaves the chewier outside), green beans, steamed zucchinni (does that count as a green veggie?), the stem part of broccoli, and sauteed spinach.

cfisher2008

I give it to her in a regular cup. But you can make it thicker and spoon feed her, if you'd prefer.

I also second Carla's suggestion of broccoli, asparagus, green beans, and sauteed spinach- DD loves all those, too.

klv

Green veggies give her awful gas. She ate about 5 peas tonight. She loves them but any more than that and we will be up all night long. We usually stick with orange and yellow stuff 

cassoppea

I agree with the smoothies - they are awesome. I also keep frozen veggies around and cook those up for her (and me). It just makes it so much easier, especially when I come home from work and have nothing in the house to give her.

chocoholicchick

I've been able to hide spinach in any fruit puree.  I mixed green peas and green beans with apples the last two days and DS ate it up, so I guess that works too.  lol.