ISO ideas for feeding dd

**dz_blonde_girl** · 02-09-2003, 10:09 AM

She's getting a lot better at solid food, but still only has 6 teeth. This baby food thing is getting out of hand. It's good for day care and shopping trips, but there must be something different I can do at home.

She eats cheese, vegetables, dry cereal (like cheerios) pretty successfully by herself. She wants to feed herself sooooo bad. I break up a cheese slice for her and give her some canned fruit or veggies and some cheerio's or crackers. I guess she should be getting all of her protein needs from all the milk she drinks.

She doesn't seem to have enough patience with herself to feed herself until she gets full. Attention span probably. It's been forever since I've had a little one. Does anyone have ideas on what else I can give her to eat? I would get bored with the same thing day after day too. (This is just to cover 1 meal a day)

**pita1213** · 02-09-2003, 10:54 AM

look at the things offered in babyfood and see if you can make them yourself or buy them cheaper in adult packaging. my ds loved spagettios and raviollis. sometimes you can find the pasta rounds near the other noodles. the pasts that looks like eblow maccaroni has been cut up was eay for my dks to grab onto and it will slide onto a spoon easy too. i'll do some more thinking and see if i can remember anything else.

**Jerseygirl** · 02-09-2003, 11:17 AM

Pasta, canned veggies(they seem softer and are already small) french fries, kidney beans, any cereal. I am a big believer in at that age anything is finger food. I am really in the habit of slipping a little of almost anything I am cooking onto the high chair tray and seeing what happens, especially if I'm doing something with ground turkey or beef since it's already soft and will almost crumble for them.

**mrscornbread** · 02-09-2003, 11:30 AM

eating with their fingers, especially when it is small and needs to be picked up with the thumb and forefinger helps in hand-eye coordination, dexterity, and small motor skills. It keeps mommy skinny too bending over to clean all that small stuff up. Anything soft and small should be okay.

**aylasmommy** · 02-09-2003, 12:46 PM

My dd has maybe 8 teeth (not sure since she wont' always let us look)

We've been feeding her for several months now:
cooked Rice
Pancakes
Scrambled eggs
chopped cooked spinach
Just about every fruit/veggie there is
any meat she'll eat just about
garbanzo and kidney beans(she prefers garbanzo's)
yogurt/cottage cheese
bread
soups
ice creams
crackers/cheese
cereals

Basically she eats anything there is, there are maybe 2 foods we've tried on her that she won't eat...
I agree with JerseyGirl, I try just about any food i'm cooking, with her. And while I'm eating at the couch, and she's awake, anything is fair game for her

**frugalmel** · 02-09-2003, 10:35 PM

With our ds I kept him on babyfood for a while. With dd, I couldn't keep her out of our food. she refused baby food and reached for ours. I finally just started dicing everything up to microscopic pieces. If you have a blender or food processer/chopper you might try part of your dinners that you eat. I would hold off on the meat or blend it really smooth.

HTH

**mylittle4** · 02-09-2003, 11:41 PM

My kids loved the vegetable soup with alphabet pasta. I just drained the broth off and they could eat it with their fingers. Scrambled eggs are good, bananas, ground hamburger, cornbread,(it doesn't gum up like sandwich bread), cut up bologna. I would just experiment.

**aylasmommy** · 02-10-2003, 01:31 AM

gerber grads meat sticks are really great too, they are mushy. I started her off on those...only they are so expensive I only get them when there are coupons out

**dz_blonde_girl** · 02-10-2003, 07:10 AM

Thanks! I thought about the soup and have coupons for Campell's vegetable. Bananas, duh, why didn't I think of that! I haven't given her meat sticks yet, I was worried they weren't mushy enough.