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Food?

BrownMaBrownMa member
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Aiden puzzles me food wise, he went from hating solids to looking them.  Right now he'll eat anywhere from 4-8 oz a meal.  He will eat any table food that is dry and crunchy but nothing moist or mushy.  I offer him daily what we eat, and he spits it out or plays with it.  He won't let us put it. In his mouth either.  Once he picks up something mushy he won't put it in his month.  Any recommendations? We're going through about 6 plum organic pounces a day, us that too much pur?e?  He'll eat any flavor!
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  • jmccall79jmccall79 member
    Ian confuses me some days too.  Some days he LOVES mandarin oranges, some days he won't touch them.  Some days he'll love this or that and then won't touch it.  I still offer whatever he might have an aversion to at a later time as he might change his mind.  The only thing that he'll really refuse every time it's offered is cottage cheese.  If it's something new, he will typically spit it out.  I give it to him again, and he'll eat it.  It's almost like he was expecting "it" and with the next bite he's fine.  As for the pouches of purees, if he's not really eating anything else, I don't see that 6 a day would be excessive necessarily.  Ian has been known to eat 2 pouches of something at a meal, but not eat anything other than those pouches at that sitting.

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  • Jen0204Jen0204 member
    Have you tried stage 3 purees that have a little bit more chunkiness to them?  How many ounces are the pouches?  If they're 3-4 ounces each I wouldn't think that's too much.  With purees I think the girls averaged 18-20 ounces/day each.  But I would stop offering him as much of those with the hopes that he'll eat other stuff.  We've started with bargaining when they won't eat something - you can have a bite of yogurt if you eat a green bean.  Mine are usually good about eating whatever, but sometimes they get stubborn and only want a certain thing and I don't want us to get into the habit of giving them whatever they want or them to learn that with enough whining they can have whatever they want.  If they won't eat whatever the food is that they don't want then they don't get the food they do want either.  But I will say that mine eat and eat and eat all day so I'm never worried that they haven't had enough in a given day.
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  • BrownMaBrownMa member
    He literally just peels apart the green beans when we give it to him and anything else mushy.  However I know he won't starve he's a big boy and eats well other the table food.  What are some table foods your Los love?
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  • Jen0204Jen0204 member
    It takes the girls a few times before they get the hang of anything new.  They've had chicken, turkey, ground beef, corn, green beans, pears, oatmeal, scrambled eggs, apples, bananas, toast with cream cheese and jelly, crackers, potato chips, french fries (hands down their favorite), a taste of ice cream, cookies, all kinds of stuff.  The toast with cream cheese and jelly was interesting.  Olivia would take a bite, somehow eat it all except the crust (I was a bad mom and forgot to cut it off), then open her mouth and leave it on her tongue for me to grab.  I cut two pieces of toast into 4 strips and gave them each 4 strips and they each threw two on the floor.  Anything they don't want gets thrown over their shoulders.  They do eat veggies but those are definitely the foods that they're least excited about.  I just bought some pouches of veggies because those are the easiest way to get them to eat them.  Oh, and yogurt, they love yogurt!
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  • preggyamypreggyamy member
    I found a few  things  in the frozen food section that LO loves.  Sweet potato cakes (basically shredded sweet potato molded into a patty), brocolli bites (brocolli and potato molded into dino shapes), cauliflower "fries", and veggie burgers.  These are all organic, low sodium, and easy meals for when I don't have anything else. 
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  • kristin172429kristin172429 member
    6 pouches a day doesn't seem like too much. I would just keep offering the finger foods.  The pouches, in the meantime, help you make sure he is getting the nutrients he needs.  I would just give him time and keep trying.  He will likely start realizing finger foods are good, too!  Have you tried cheese?  Ben loves the little cubes I make from block cheese - it is not mushy or moist, so maybe it would work?  I normally give him that and grapes cut up as a snack.  
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