So, I have been trying for the past couple months to get Landon eating regular food instead of baby food. He has always had an issue with texture...he won't really eat the baby food that has chunks in it, he just spits it out. He loves the real mushy baby food though! He will eat bread NO problem...he loves it. So, I've done toast, bread with butter etc. I have tried pasta, plain and with sauce, macaroni and cheese and all of it he will put it in his mouth and then spit it out right away. Same with beans, alphagetti, cheese, ground beef, chicken. The other day he ate a few pieces of chicken nuggets so I thought I'd try making my own, and he spit them out. He will eat fishies, crackers, yogurt, applesauce and stuff like that no problem. So...I am looking for any ideas you might have on how I can get him eating other food. Chunky food. I am just feeling a bit at a loss. Do I just keep feeding him baby food, and just keep trying with the other stuff?? Thanks!
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
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Oh, I know your frustration! Joshua was the same way until he reached about 15 months...then he decided chunks were fine! I used to puree fruit & veggies to mix in his baby cereal. He would gobble that right up!Sometimes I would puree the meats too & add those in with the veggies...so gross but he liked it! I gradually made the puree stuff a little thicker with tiny chunks & I think that helped. Hopefully he'll decide that chunky food isn't so bad real soon for ya! :)
like i said before my child is the opposite and won't eat pureed mushy food! Do you let him eat it on his own or do you still spoon feed him everything. Camryn will eat better if i juts dump the food on her tray, of course that isn;t alwyas the case but whatever i can i let her finger eat. Other then that I have NO idea! kids should really come with their own manuals!! oh how that would make sense and be so much easier, good luck
I agree with Christy and get him to feed himself with a spoon or a fork. It is alot messier at first and it takes them 500 years to eat a meal,but I find Sophie eats WAY more if I just leave her alone! Also you can give Danae a call. Max had exactley the same issues and she's been working with him on the whole texture thing!!
The fact that he will eat fish crackers, bread, chicken nuggets (some chunkier food) is a good thing...it could be WAY worse. I'll keep my ears open for any tricks!!
All I know is that often it just takes TIME. Some things that Grace used to spit out and not like, I just kept trying and trying and all of the sudden one day she was like "ok, I like this!" Some things, though (like bananas, when I really want her to have them) I have to put in a smoothie or something.... And I also know that I never hear of kids in kindergarten who are still eating pureed foods.... So I know he will get there eventually! Good luck! So much of parenting seems to be patience, which I am lacking but God is teaching.
I think you should send him to Australia...I will straighten him out :) Or, I'll just keep him! xx
Hey Kris - I know we talked about this the other day, but I just thought of some things that might be helpful to try. Have you tried eggs at all? I give Natalie basically scrambled egg yolks (you can do the full egg now that he is a year) with grated cheese and peppers. She loves it! What if you tired with grated zucchini or something like that? Or I also give her hard boiled egg yolk which she also quite enjoys (be forwarned, very messy though). So, just some ideas that might help him ease his way into solids.
Side note - did you get the gift Natalie left for Landon last night? Hope he enjoys it.
Sticky rice! Children are raised on it here in Thailand, and I don't know how one lives without it. Asian markets should have it, and you steam it instead of boiling it, after soaking it overnight. It's a finger food, and the texture can be as mushy or grainy as you want depending on how long you steam it. I'll try to smuggle some in when we come. Also, if he likes smooth yoghurt, and likes crackers, get him to make his own "lumpy" food by letting him to add Cheerios or the crackers to his yoghurt or pudding and eating it - fun and helps him get used to "lumpy food". Celina used to always spit out the fruit from the mixed yogurt until she started adding her own ingredients to the yogurt. Also, I respectfully disagree with leaving the kids alone to finish eating. Eating is best a social event and peer pressure is the best when it comes to eating, and having some other children, even a little older, wolfing their food down beside a hesitant eater is the best way I have found for encouraging consumption of anything. We have had vegetable eating contests at our dinner table with cousins, and that is also extremely helpful (their parents had told me they couldn't get their children to eat ANY vegetables so I had to prove it could be done;). I promise nothing about the cleanliness of it all, though. Good luck!
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