Baby meals, possibly dumb questions

amyc216 · January 2013

I remember there was just a post about how much food the LOs are eating now and I just re-read it to get ideas of food for DS. I feel like I am so behind on his solid foods! I buy a lot of Gerber graduates meals, but he also still eats a lot of baby food. Anyway, do you let your LOs feed themselves or do you feed them with a spoon/fork? If you make them a sandwich, do they eat a sandwich like adults do or do you cut it into little bites? If you serve toast, do you just do plain or do you add butter or jelly or something? If you give them cereal, do you just do it dry or do you add milk? I feel clueless about this.

emunbalanced · January 2013

DD mostly feeds herself, but we still spoon feed her really messy stuff like yogurt or applesauce. She mastered the fork this week, so she's been pushing us away when we try to help. She usually eats whatever we eat switching between using her utensils and using her hands. I still cut and tear up her food into little bites because she has no teeth yet and just can't handle some stuff if it's not bitesized. Sometimes we put a little butter or jelly on her toast, but sometimes it's just plain. I feel like it's such a crapshoot anymore with her meals. She'll love something one day, and the next day I'll get an"ew" if I try to give it to her again.

Chunstad · January 2013

C sometimes uses a spoon, but it's only for a few bites. I usually lay out utensils and while he's trying to use them, I feed him with my fork. Sometimes they go flying along with his food.

I give him toast, sometimes buttered sometimes not. He loves his carbs. Sandwiches, I'll cut up small pieces, but he just deconstructs them with one finger and sometimes picks out a piece to eat, sometimes not. I wish that he'd eat tortillas (cut up), but he tries and gags on them.

I don't ever feed him the Gerber meals, I either feed him what we are eating or stuff I've premade and froze (homemade spaghetti-o's, toddler muffins, or turkey/chicken meatballs). NO JUDGEMENT ON ANYONE HERE, but I really don't eat pre-made meals due to the high sodium content and freaky stuff they put in there to make it shelf-stable.

anasazi17 · January 2013

Similarly to the previous posters, A eats most of her food by herself unless it is the messy stuff. We try to feed Ash what we eat, but she is currently on a hunger strike....and I'm unclear of her demands. The best motto I have adapted is that I control what she eats, she controls how much, which is nothing.

As far as adding things to bread, I try to make it as nutritious as possible. Fresh berries with cream cheese on a whole wheat bagel is our current favorite snack!

DD understands the spoon/fork thing but hasn't mastered it yet.

amyc216 · January 2013

Chunstad:

C sometimes uses a spoon, but it's only for a few bites. I usually lay out utensils and while he's trying to use them, I feed him with my fork. Sometimes they go flying along with his food.

I give him toast, sometimes buttered sometimes not. He loves his carbs. Sandwiches, I'll cut up small pieces, but he just deconstructs them with one finger and sometimes picks out a piece to eat, sometimes not. I wish that he'd eat tortillas (cut up), but he tries and gags on them.

I don't ever feed him the Gerber meals, I either feed him what we are eating or stuff I've premade and froze (homemade spaghetti-o's, toddler muffins, or turkey/chicken meatballs). NO JUDGEMENT ON ANYONE HERE, but I really don't eat pre-made meals due to the high sodium content and freaky stuff they put in there to make it shelf-stable.

What are toddler muffins?

Don't worry! I don't take offense. I am the crappiest eater and really don't want to pass it on to DS. I need to learn to cook stat!

Chunstad · January 2013

anasazi17:
Similarly to the previous posters, A eats most of her food by herself unless it is the messy stuff. We try to feed Ash what we eat, but she is currently on a hunger strike....and I'm unclear of her demands. The best motto I have adapted is that I control what she eats, she controls how much, which is nothing.
As far as adding things to bread, I try to make it as nutritious as possible. Fresh berries with cream cheese on a whole wheat bagel is our current favorite snack!
DD understands the spoon/fork thing but hasn't mastered it yet.

LOL!!!!

Chunstad · January 2013

amyc216:
Chunstad:

C sometimes uses a spoon, but it's only for a few bites. I usually lay out utensils and while he's trying to use them, I feed him with my fork. Sometimes they go flying along with his food.

I give him toast, sometimes buttered sometimes not. He loves his carbs. Sandwiches, I'll cut up small pieces, but he just deconstructs them with one finger and sometimes picks out a piece to eat, sometimes not. I wish that he'd eat tortillas (cut up), but he tries and gags on them.

I don't ever feed him the Gerber meals, I either feed him what we are eating or stuff I've premade and froze (homemade spaghetti-o's, toddler muffins, or turkey/chicken meatballs). NO JUDGEMENT ON ANYONE HERE, but I really don't eat pre-made meals due to the high sodium content and freaky stuff they put in there to make it shelf-stable.

What are toddler muffins?

Don't worry! I don't take offense. I am the crappiest eater and really don't want to pass it on to DS. I need to learn to cook stat!

I got the toddler muffins off of Pinterest, same with the spaghettio's. Both were a huge hit.

https://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Toddler-Muffins/Detail.aspx

https://penniesonaplatter.com/2012/07/09/diy-homemade-spaghettios/

pennysuedog · January 2013

I give Violet silverware at every meal sometimes she tries to use it but most the time it ends up on the floor. I give sandwiches whole and do not cut them up. I do cut up somethings like pancakes though because otherwise she will stuff the whole thing in her mouth. MH spoon feeds Violet some things because he doesn't like a mess, I don't though. I don't give Violet and baby food, although the other day we were at Target and Violet was hungry so I bought her her first pouch and she loved it.

blu-eyedwife · January 2013

We did BLW, so LBB has always fed himself, and never had baby food.

Handheld foods he ...holds with his hands.

Spoony-foods like soups and yogurt we either load the spoon and hand him, or let him work on it himself (depending on whether he wants to work on it, or wants to turn it over and dump it out)

Fork-y foods he uses a fork with.

I cut sandwiches in fours, just to make it a little easier for him to handle, but I think DH gives them to him whole.

Toast gets butter, apple butter, pumpkin butter, or peanut butter.

Cereal I tend to give dry for snacks, with milk for breakfast.

amyc216 · January 2013

Thanks evverybody! I feel better!

CMonkey515 · January 2013

DS eats what we eat or the most part. He does occasionally get a pouch if he's having a very picky day. Just to get some veggies in him. I feed him spoon foods, because he doesn't really get much if he does it himself. I do give him a spoon to hold at the same time so he can at least practice. For solids I cut tougher foods (like meat or cheese sticks) into bite sized pieces because he doesn't have much in the way of teeth yet. I also give him a fork which he has varying degrees of success with. Softer foods (like bread, quesadillas, pancakes, etc) I give in strips or larger chunks. He handles them pretty well. Toast gets butter, apple butter, or no sugar added preserves.

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