If your baby eats what you eat,

SweetPTater · August 2011

do you prepare it differently? Or is it really as simple as plopping some spaghetti and sauce directly on the high chair tray? Or handing him a pancake? Does it matter that whatever you're eating has salt in it?

I feel like I'm behind the train after reading the post about what your LO's are eating below. I've made most of his purees so he's used to thicker texture, and he's been eating mashed bananas and avocado since he was 6 months. I guess I just haven't thought as far ahead as to the transition to table food. He eats puffs and mumm-mumms, and ocassionally I give him small bits of chicken or the diced fruit cups so he's had a little practice. Are you dicing everything up small or giving them big chunks to chew on?

I feel like LO needed to come with an instruction manual or something.

Gingersnap_mama · August 2011

We literally just started giving table foods. Usually what I do just put what we're eating on her tray and let her have at it! I dice everything up really tiny (like the size of a cheerio).

If it's something that I don't think will agree with her, like something salty or spicy, I just defrost some frozen meals I've already made up. What I like to do is buy diced mixed veggies to cook real quick, or dice up some of my own, steam them, then freeze them. For meats, I have some jarred stage 3 meals in the pantry.

hippotree · August 2011

The only time I prepare it differently is if it's spicy. Everything else just gets cut up into manageable bits.

angelame1979 · August 2011

I made Spaghetti the other night and we literally just plopped it on the tray and she went to town. I cut the spaghetti up and she also ate a couple of cut up meatballs. We just kind of go with the flow and give her a little bit of what we are eating for her to try but are still giving her Stage 3's too. I feel like the feeding part also needs a manual but we just keep trying.

drewiekc · August 2011

Yep, its really as easy as just ploping it on their tray! I cut it up into bite-sized pieces first, but that's it.

CourtneyR2N · August 2011

I just cut everything up into small pieces.

With pasta I cook it a little longer than I normally would for us so it is easier for him to mush.

CinemaGoddess · August 2011

We just started giving them what we eat in the last couple of days. We cut things up pretty small and put it on their highchair tray. The only things we keep bigger are bananas and toast, which we cut into strips.

SweetPTater · August 2011

heckysue:

If he's eating with us I just dice it and put it on his tray. Usually he eats leftovers since he goes to bed so early, so I'll just pick out whatever is easy and set it aside for the next night. For example when we had Chipotle burritos recently I just gave C a big pile of the middle of my burrito on his tray. Last night H and I ate turkey brats, roasted carrots and onions, and corn on the cob for dinner. I saved C some roasted carrots and a turkey brat (healthy one with no nitrates etc.). I will dice the carrots and crumble the turkey.

If we have something unhealthy or that he can't eat I just have go-to foods I give him instead. But when they can mostly eat what you eat it makes life so much easier. I rarely have to pack much for him anymore.

ETA: He eats it seasoned how we do. Granted we're healthy eaters and don't eat too much salt etc. But I don't do anything special for him.

As stupid as it sounds, I never thought of giving him leftovers. He goes to bed around 7:30 so we normally wait to cook/eat dinner until after he goes to bed. I was wondering how I was going to find time to cook yet another meal. I'm obviously WAY overthinking this.

Another stupid question - do you also send table food to daycare?

Kara5109 · August 2011

I don't really prepare it any different. I don't give her anything with salt or something that is extremely spicy. Yes, I do just just plop pasta covered in sauce on her tray and hand her pancakes. She eats everything by hand.

Also, I don't dice anything up. She does fine with small and big chunks of things.

Aloe0l · August 2011

hippotree:
The only time I prepare it differently is if it's spicy. Everything else just gets cut up into manageable bits.

This - or also if it's something that is overly processed/salted and just not baby appropriate.

Aloe0l · August 2011

SweetPTater:

Another stupid question - do you also send table food to daycare?

And, DD gets the food that the school provides for breakfast & lunch - which is table foods (waffles, pancakes, chicken & rice, etc)

Rach21 · August 2011

hippotree:
The only time I prepare it differently is if it's spicy. Everything else just gets cut up into manageable bits.

THIS. I use lots of Mrs. Dash (salt-free and flavorful). If we need actual salt, I put it on the table for DH and me.

marcia1108 · August 2011

....when did you all start giving your LO food from your dinners? And when did you drop the 4 day rule? (sorry I am behind, I just jumped to the 9-12 month board from 6-9 months)

thanks!!!!!

kg_08 · August 2011

DD was totally done with purees when she was 7.5 months old. We feed her what we eat, and I don't prepare it special for her. We're not big salt eaters in general though.

As far as cutting things up, it depends what it is. Bananas I just cut lengthwise down the middle and let her go to town, PB&J she eats as a whole sandwich, ,... if it's something that's not soft though we do cut it up small for her.

kg_08 · August 2011

marcia1108:

....when did you all start giving your LO food from your dinners? And when did you drop the 4 day rule? (sorry I am behind, I just jumped to the 9-12 month board from 6-9 months)

thanks!!!!!

We actually dropped the 3 day rule pretty early around 6 months. She hadn't had issues with any foods up until then, and a lot of the stage 2 foods were mixed anyway. I made a mental note if she ate something new or not, but we didn't necessarily wait. She started eating table food sometimes around 6 months too.

avy930 · August 2011

We dice things up for her but we don't prepare them any differently. We hardly ever add salt to meals so that isn't an issue for us. We do like things spicy though and at first, we took some of whatever we were making out before adding the spice but she actually prefers it our way!

She has a hard time picking up spaghetti if it's too small of pieces so we leave that bigger but we just plop it right on her tray. Pancakes or toast we tear up because she will shove the entire thing in her mouth. We've never had a choking issues but I don't want to so I tear it up!

kdello · August 2011

She eats what we eat, unless it's spicy. (Spicy hot, not spicy flavorful. She LOVES strong spices like curry, cumin, etc, just not things that are spicy hot.) We just plunk it on her tray. She doesn't eat our food if it's fried or sugary, but that's unusual. She's older than your LO, but we did baby led weaning and she's never liked purees or being fed with a spoon, so I just give her half a banana or a peice of toast and she'll nibble away at it.

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