January 2011 Moms
SweetHurricane
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Veggies
SweetHurricane
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What kinds of veggies do your LOs eat? How do you prepare them (be specific)?
When we were doing purees, DD loved veggies, but now she won't touch them. I've tried all her favorites (and some others) and she won't eat them. I tried putting cheese on the broccoli, and she just sucked it off and threw the broccoli on the floor. I put ranch on cucumbers, same thing. I got her to eat a small amount of avacado by making it into a paste and spreading it on bread, but I'd rather not have to trick her if I can help it.
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Re: Veggies
My baby is a wackadoo. She'll eat almost anything if green onions are on it. I will say though that she usually doesn't like sauces, since she gets it on her hands and then is like, yuck mommy, towel plz. The one exception is yellow curry. I told you she's a wackadoo.
If she liked it before, it's probably just textural. Make sure you're cooking everything soft enough for her to chew with her chompers. Mine will only rarely eat the stalk on broccoli no matter how soft I cook it, but loves the flower part. Likewise she did not like tempura onion rings but BK onion rings were best ever (she loved the sweet potato and shrimp though, so it wasn't tempura in general).
Sam is still doing purees and mashed up foods. He needs to learn how not to gag on all foods. He likes the taste of everything, just hates their textures.
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JT is so darn picky with textures but I can't exactly figure out which textures he likes and doesn't.
Right now, the only veggies he'll really eat are peas. I buy the Steamfresh and make them in the microwave - then freeze. Each day I'll cut a bunch off of the frozen block and nuke them - he'll eat them up!
Today he had 2 small pieces of carrots but almost had to sneak them in there - I also steam those and then freeze. Nuke for dinner.
I am not disciplined enough to cook each night the way he needs so I really like to freeze and reuse and he doesn't seem to mind. I always taste it, if I wouldn't eat it I won't give it to him.
For a while he was liking sweet potato pancakes - those were easy to make and freeze too but now he's over them. Recipe on wholesomebabyfood.com
Oh also, my dr. said to just keep offering. Don't try to force or trick - maybe the 10th time they will pick it up and eat it. So based on that everyday he gets some broccoli (he used to eat them, not sure what happened - again I buy Steamfresh or fresh broccoli and I would steam it and freeze) but everyday it ends up on the floor.
Have you tried deli meat? DD will not eat chunks of meat, but snatches up sliced turkey/roast beef/ham like it's going out of style.
If I don't have food read, I buy frozen veggies that are cut up (peas, carrots, butternut squash, green beans, etc.) and microwave them and give them to DD. If I have food ready, she just eats what we're having. I find she likes spicier food more.
Some of things that are most successful for us:
Chicken vegetable soup (LOTS of veggies - carrot, parsnip, sweet potato, celery, onion). I take the chicken and veggies out and cut them up for her.
"Kugel" (it's an eastern European Jewish casserole - I make it with broccoli or potatoes)
Veggie pancakes - any veggie, flour/bread crumbs, egg, onion - puree and fry.
Turkey meatloaf with veggies mixed in (frozen peas and carrots, or ground carrot and celery)
Any kind of stir fry and I make spaghetti squash to put the stir fry on