Baby Food Grinder

i started with the vegis because once you give ur chld the sweet fruit they will want the sweetness more than the vegis. my friend did the color thing and her child is so picky with vegi…. i would do one vegi a week and then another and so on.

The ideal would probably be to wait until baby is able to self-feed table foods, then just let him pick what he wants off the family table.

But if you’re going to start with babyfood — any order is fine. Your peds opinion is just that — his opinion. Ask 20 doctors and they will give you 20 ‘right orders’ for feeding solids. You could start with cereal, or jarred fruits, or jarred veggies. You could give them in any order. (All the fruits first, then all the veggies. Or alternate. Or make a rainbow. Or go alphabetically. Or put one jar of each in a hat and pull one out ever 3-5 days.)

It doesn’t have to be ‘bland’. If baby is ready for solids, he’s ready for food with flavor and texture. If he doesn’t like the food you offer first, try something else. If he doesn’t like that either, I’d probably just wait a few weeks. Since you ARE talking about jars, I’m assuming that he’s under 8-10 months, and so doens’t really need solids yet.

I started with just plain rice cereal to begin with just to see if the boys were ready to eat yet. After they had about a week or two of just that we started introducing more interesting foods. Then we would mix in the fruit/veggie with the rice cereal (made w/ formula or brstmlk). The stronger the flavor of a particular food the easier our boys ate them b/c mixing the food with the cereal made it more mild & easier for their little developing palate. A lot of the green veggies taste a lot milder when mixed and the boys seem to take to them better then with time mix half & give some just plain then you can gradually use less & less of the cereal. Despite what people will say about not feeding fruits first b/c of them developing a taste for the sweet stuff over the veggies know this: Breast milk & formula both are sweet and they crave that all the time! There are a few sweet foods in the veggie department too so I wouldn’t freak out about the whole veggies before fruit thing. Ultimately you offer your baby a variety of things and they will tell you yea or nay but don’t give up sometimes it takes a few times before they will eat that particular food. Also if you pair a strong flavored veggie with one they like that’s always a good tip (broc mixed w/ swt potato). The reason you go one food at a time is to see if the baby will have an allergic reaction to whatever type of food you are offering. After a few days of the one food with no reaction you can introduce another and so on until the baby is eating a good mix of foods.