Meals for My 10 Month Old??

Start letting him use the spoon. It won't be perfect and it will be messy. Steamed veggies are good if they are toothless.

Good luck.

Give him a spoon now. He won't really use it correctly, but I think he should have a spoon and a sippy cup at meals right now.

I recommend pasta cooked til it's really soft, english peas that have been squished, rice, mashed sweet potatos.

Avacadoes, extra firm tofus cut up into small cubes are also a great source of so many good things that babies and everyone needs. You'll find it in your produce refrigerated section. Don't be intimidated by it, and don't pass your preconception of the item onto your child's virgin palettes. Steamed veggies cut up into small cubes or pieces. All these things should carry your child well through their 2 &3 years old. Just bc they push it away once, you need to try giving it to them again at least 10 times b4 you should concede that they do not like it. Your child is still very young, do not fall into the trap that "oh, my child is a picky eater". No, they are only picky if you allow them to become picky. Don't shy away from introducing new things and always continue to do so. Your child does not know what's available, only you can control that. So always try to be inventive and think outside of the norm so that your child will benefit. If you raise a "picky" eater, you are setting them up for a life of mac & cheese, chicken nuggets, pizzas, hamburgers, french fries and that can only lead to child hood obesities. Not good, you do not want to go down that route. Take what you offer your child very seriously. Don't take the attitude that "oh, my hb is not home today so I don't really have to cook". No you need to cook for your child. Sorry for the rant, but too many moms out there think that this is not an important subject. And I look around my son's school and see so many "fast food" raise children who are so fat and out of shape and so are thier parents. And kids missing school all the time bc their sick. Both my kids were at school everyday this past school year. Good luck and don't fall into the trap.

Hi L.-

I would discuss it with your pediatrician, but I was always told that for the first year the baby should still be getting the majority of his nutrition and calories from breast milk or formula. Unless he still seems hungry, I would say what you're doing so far is fine. As far as the spoon goes, you can pretty much hand him a spoon anytime you want to. He'll struggle and make a mess, but that's how they learn.

Good Luck!
K.

That's about the time I started giving my now 11 month old table food. I started with things like applesauce, yogurt, cheerios, bananas, baked beans, those little Gerber meat sticks, and cooked veggies. I would let him feed himself the finger foods, and I would spoon feed him the rest.
Just a thought!

Hello. I suggest buying the book Super Baby Food by Ruth Yaron. It is available at Borders, and online at SuperBabyFood.com. It has everything you need to begin solids, and make sure your baby is getting all that he needs, and also lots of great recipies! GL!

Hi L.. I also have a 10 month old. She still has 32 oz of formula every day. Her dr told me that is what she should be having. At a year is when they are suppose to go from formula/bottle to milk/sippy cup.
I have a hard time w/ what to feed her too. We give her any kind of vegtable you can think of...just mash it up. She really like these little Gerber Graduates Ravioli meals. They are nice b/c she can feed them to herself. She eats bananas, applesauce, bread, waffles, soft breakfast bars, blueberry muffins (she likes to rub those into her hair!), and i process whatever we have for supper that's not spicy.
Also, I was looking at this last night and plan on buying it, check out "The Sneaky Chef". She's got a cookbook w/ recipes that have healthy food hidden in them. It sounds good. I'm gonna give that one a try. I don't want to feed my little girl a bunch of bad unhealthy things.
Good Luck!
Laura

L.,
When you say he "still has" 24oz of formula a day - that sounds pretty great to me! Check with your doc, but I think that even when you switch to milk he should get about 24 oz of milk a day too. 10 months is when we started giving our son "real" food - we used a food chopper to cut up chicken etc. from our meal into really small pieces he could handle. Green beans were great because they are soft and he could chew them without many teeth, mashed potatoes, mashed califlower (make it just like mashed potatoes maybe add some cheese), applesauce, chicken in gravy. Cherrios! Graham crackers.

My youngest is 10months old too and I started with table foods like steamed baby carrots, green beans, avacado, rice, small pieces of chicken, cheerios and kix (he loves kix and will put a handful in his mouth). He is eating oatmeal, noodles (wacky mac-different shapes and colors), yogurt, bananas, peaches, poached pears, peas. Just about anything we eat he wants to eat too. He loves mashed sweet potatoes. I also give him a spoon when he's eating (he tries to cut his green beans, but will just play with a spoon). All of his liquids are in a sippy cup now too.

We gave our 13 month old table food about 2 months ago. I make her food seperately, putting less sauce or whatever on hers. I also smash it with a fork or cut it into small pieces. You can let him feed himself with his hands. If you eat something that can be cubed, let him try and pick it up. Don't give him the spoon until 2. :)

I also have a ten month old. I started giving her mushy table foods a few months ago, like mashed potatoes, refried beans, applesauce, yougurt. She will no longer eat baby food. Now she eats everything we eat. I take our meal and cut it into small pieces. She eats meats, veggies, fruits, everything. Both my children love Chinese food. She eats it all chopped up in little pieces. I believe you should get them used to the diet and items you regularly eat in your household. I really think healthy eating starts early. The earlier you introduce them to a variety of textures, flavors, etc., the more willing they will be to try new things in the future.

My son was a very "healthy" eater. I started with easy to swallow foods like rice with peas and carrots and mashed potatoes. I started out very slowly with the spoon because I am overly cautious. Each child is different and can be ready for a spoon at different times. The only way to find out is to test it. If they aren't ready they either spit it out or you may have to sweep their mouth with a finger and give them some water. My son started solid "real" food at six months (just the rice and mashed potatoes), then moved on to more foods by about one or two a month. I kept it spaced out in case he had an allergies to foods and/or to give him time to adjust to the changes in the style of eating. Hope this helps.

Hi, my name is A., I have 3 children of my own. I would gave my children a spoon at 6 months. Granted they played with it, but it also help them learn what to do with it. So, I would say give your beautiful blues a spoon now. As, far as for meal I loved the baby food. I was in now rush to get them off of that.

I have 11 month old twin girls. The LOVE this recipe. Hope it helps. I sometimes give them a spoon but they really just play with it and eat the food with their hands. Why not? :)

1 box of macaroni
1 box of velveeta cheese
1 1/2 jar of Alfredo sauce
2 tsp olive oil
2 tsp garlic
1 tsp toni creole seasoning
1 tsp garlic salt
1 tsp italian seasoning
1 cup grated mixed cheese
1 can vegetable broth
1 1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs
1 1/2 cup milk
Boil water with vegetable broth and seasoning. After water is rolling boil, add macaroni until soft. Put half of macaroni in bowl with alfredo sauce and mix up.Leave other half in pan and add cubed velveeta in with hot noodles along with milk and seasoning. Add to large cake pan and mix in the noodles with alfredo sauce. Make sure there is enough milk to cover bottom of bowl when the cheese melts. Add bread crumbs and grated cheese to the top and put in oven on 350* for about 30 minutes or until it is bubbly and melted.

L.,

My son is 9 months old and I don't even give him baby food anymore. My pedi told me when i asked about switching from 2's to 3s on the baby food to skip over them because they are used of sucking the food off the spoon and when you give them 3s alot of the time the will choke because of the chunks in the food. I give him pretty much everything we eat for dinner now. When I first started out giving him "real" food though, I would do like the little sausages that you can get in the jars for toddlers, with green beans and mashed potatoes or something like that. As far as the spoon I would go ahead and let him start using it. What I always do is feed my son most of his food then let him try to feed himself after I think he is almost done. At first you are going to want to take his clothes off because they get very messy. He will probably need a bath afterwards. Hope this helps.

P.S. Make sure to have a camera he will be making alot of cute expressions trying to figure out what to do.

K. Hayes
http://www.4ourlittleones.com

My youngest one is 13 months old, and she has been eating table foods exclusively (by that I mean no jarred baby foods, but still plenty of breatmilk) since somewhere between 9 and 10 months (closer to 9). I started her on solids at 6 months, but didn't use them for very long. Table foods are easier. Like my older daughter, my baby LOVES to eat (which is funny because they're both petite), and she was really interested in our food, but some babies may not be as interested or ready. But I just cut everything up in really small pieces; she was eating chicken, little pieces of pork, a variety of veggies, including beans that I cut in half, lots of fruit. Rice is any easy choice because you don't have to cut it; just put a spoonful in front of baby. Also, don't worry if your baby doesn't have teeth--he is just going to gum the food and teeth really don't matter. (I add that because I've known a few moms who have insisted that they couldn't give table foods because the baby didn't have teeth, and then as soon as the baby gets his two front teeth, they give him table foods, as if he is going to chew with those two teeth!) As for the spoon, I have started my kids with a fork rather than a spoon. My baby started using one shortly before she turned a year; I would stab her food for her and then lay the fork down for her to pick up and put in her mouth. She still thinks that is just about the greatest thing in the world. Spoons are harder because baby has to have the spoon at the right angle or the food falls out (and they often tend to turn it over on the way to the mouth). All of that said, there is really no right or wrong time for any of this stuff. You can try things--table foods, forks, spoons--and if your baby isn't interested now, it just means he's not ready and you try again another day.

This might sound odd but my daughter LOVES miso soup with tons of tofu. It started when she was really little and ate some tofu from our soup. when we go to a sushi place we order her a bowl of rice and miso w/ extra tofu. You can make this at home. The asian market off 183/mcNeil/Spicewood springs sells miso. She still likes it better from the resturant better including the rice.

I also have these spinach bites you can get at Costco and she loves them.

Good luck. It's hard! :)

Hi L.,

There's a book called "Mommy Made and Daddy Too: Home Cooking for a Healthy Baby & Toddler" (Martha Kimmel, David Kimmel, Suzanne Goldenson) it has lots of good and easy ideas and recipes, I know they have it at Borders and I think at Target too. Also there's a cute thing called the "Baby Bistro Box" that's like a recipe box, but I think that's a little more expensive.

Hi L.,
The best thing to do is get him off formula and start giving him goats milk. You can get it at most grocery stores but would be much better if you could find someone with goats that you could get it from fresh. Goats milk is very high in vitamins and formulated for a baby goat which is the same size as a small child. If he spits up at first dilute it a little till he gets used to it. Try it you'll like it.
For solid foods my son could'nt get enough ovacados, he would almost gulp them down and say yum yum yum while he was eating. they are very high in vitamins and oils that his body needs. also carrots, sweet potatos, potatos mashed with peas. Any vegetable will work except gassy vegetables like brocoli or cabbage. Always buy it fresh and cook it yourself use a little water and steam it to keep in the vitamins then add a little of the cooking water to the veggies in the blender and blend.(let it cool first) and it will look and be the concistency of store bought foods without all the preservatives. don't buy it bottled.
Good Luck W.

My little guy loves steamed veggies, any fruit, and whole wheat pasta. I make a lot of veggie dishes that I find on the internet. If you look up veggie dinners a lot of dinners will come up. Hope this helps.

B.
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