Solids poll

momofcatan · February 2014

I was going to make this a clicky poll, but figured non-clicky would work better. How much of what your LO is eating is purees/spoon feeding vs. self feeding/finger foods or small pieces of real food you feed LO. Also feel free to add how many solids meals you are doing these days.

momofcatan · February 2014

I would say we do 50/50 between purées and finger foods. Some meals (usually when I don't feel like struggling to clean her up) are completely purees and some are completely finger foods (usually bread with a spread and some fruit). Most are a combination. She also gets a handful of Cheerios after almost every meal to keep her busy while I clean up. Sometimes she also seems to not be in the mood to self feed, but if I take the same food and feed her small pieces with a fork or spoon she eats it all up.

ETA: she eats 3 meals a day. Probably 3-5oz at each meal, maybe more? It's hard to gauge since there is usually some finger food.

musicalsilver · February 2014

We're doing BLW - so it's kinda hard to tell how much LO is actually eating, but it's definitely all finger type foods. On the upper bounds it's probably something like half a banana (or about that volume) and sometimes it's just a couple little bites.

We do at least two meals a day (one at daycare where they'll also sometimes do a snack, and one in the evening with us) and sometimes three if we have time for cheerios and some fruit in the morning.

LaBellaVida · February 2014

I mostly do puree and feed him with a spoon. But he does mum mums, puffs, cheese ect.. By himself.

Right now i offer solids two times a day.

Cricket81 · February 2014

LaBellaVida said:

I mostly do puree and feed him with a spoon. But he does mum mums, puffs, cheese ect.. By himself. Right now i offer solids two times a day.

Pretty much exactly this, except we haven't done cheese yet (on my shopping list for tomorrow). In the morning I do fruit/cereal/yogurt in some sort of mix and then in the evening I try to do something green and then sweet potatoes (his favorite).

AlsGal01 · February 2014

He started refusing purees and only wanting what we were eating. so now he eats when we eat (3 times a day) and what we eat (within reason). I give him food to let him self feed, but I also offer bites with a spoon of the same thing since he's not all that great at self feeding. He will get puffs or a mum mum sometime during the day as well, no strict schedule here.

peachnectarine · February 2014

He has all purées, two times a day. And a big no to feeding himself.

KellenHi21 · February 2014

3 solids meals a day plus random tastes sometimes of things. Usually one meal is finger food type stuff. He also likes teething crackers and puffs. But the bulk is purées. I'm just glad he is finally liking food! Lol

Nix55 · February 2014

She gets 2 oz purée for lunch and the BLW for dinner.

BC&LM · February 2014

He does almost all purees, two meals a day. In terms of finger foods, he likes gnawing on hunks of bread and rolls on occasion, but never was into fruit slices like banana that we gave him in the past other than just licking them. We gave him some teething biscuits for the past two days, though, and he ate over half a biscuit each time. We will be trying sweet potato slices tomorrow, and if that goes well, we will start trying more finger foods.

CoffeeBeanFiend91 · February 2014

50/50 she gets a few pieces of fruit cut up in the morning along with some oatmeal, yogurt, or cottage cheese. For lunch it varies. If I do a veggie purée I will give her cut up fruit. Sometimes I'll just put some peas or cut veggies on the tray. Dinner it's veggie, meat, and grain purée if were eating something she can have. Otherwise I give her chunks of what we're going for dinner. Now that she's slowed down with bottles I've been making sure she eats three meals and enough of them purées so that she actually gets food in her tummy. I want to make sure she's getting enough calories

benny713 · February 2014

BLW here, so I'm not always sure how much she actually eats. We do two meals a day, breakfast and lunch. Breakfast is usually a fruit, oatmeal, or a bite of whatever I'm having. Today she shunned the banana and ate my corn chex. Lunch is usually veggies, and we just started some meat. I do have pureed sweet potatoes in the freezer for when I run low on groceries so I have something to feed her. I fill up the spoon and hand it to her, and she goes to town (same with the oatmeal). We are adding dinner and a snack soon because she is starting to smack her lips at me around 4pm, and I think she's ready for three meals a day.

numbersgirl08 · February 2014

We definitely do a lunch meal, some type of purée, about 3-4 oz. if we eat dinner before she goes to bed then she does finger foods. We've really only done bananas, sweet potatoes, and avocados at dinner though. I thought we would do BLW but it isn't really for us. I'm just a little too paranoid.

chelsmcl · February 2014

She eats 3 meals a day.
Oatmeal with a fruit purée in the morning.
A veggie purée at lunch, then I let her feed herself some finger foods like little pieces of chicken, fruit, some Cheerios.
Dinner is oatmeal with fruit again.

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