What foods do your children like?

Amber - posted on 02/24/2009

My son loves the banana puffs that gerber has for finger food also the banana cookies that they can hold in their hands as a snack. I feed him the stage three gerber baby food mainly all the dinner and the fruits. but at dinner time i will also give him little bit of what i'm eatting to get him used to soild foods. he will eat about anything mom cooks.

Karin - posted on 02/24/2009

Pasta, goldfish crackers, pretzels (with the salt picked off), freeze-dried apples, and string cheese are the newest favorites here. Basically anything we're eating is what she wants though.

Claudia - posted on 02/24/2009

My daughter loves spaghetti, so I put as many veggies in the sauce as possible.  She doesn't do the ice cream, cake, or snack stuff.  I've found cheese to be a big hit, but I keep a close eye on it.  Usually she eats if she sees us eating, no matter what it is.  We've had to bump up dinner time but we're eating healthier and so is she.

Mary - posted on 02/24/2009

My daughter is eating everything in sight,  She loves papa murphy pizza, ravioli, mac n cheese, homemade french fries, chicken soup, chinese, mexican.......  she loves eating chips and salsa w/daddy, even when daddy is eating the hot stuff, she just keeps dipping. Applesauce, yogurt, scrambled eggs, and cooked oatmeal are her favorite breakfasts, and don't forget the toast and homemade jelly.

I have been careful giving her beef, just because it's harder to chew, but she gets enough protein in other foods.  And she didn't like alot of the baby foods, so we went straight to table food, and I would just mash it up really good, but now a days I just fix her plate just like my 10 year old sons plate.

Zoe has had cake for her bday and for her cousin's bday that is 2 months older, and she loves ice cream (we eat the lower sugar kind) and g'ma always spoils her with cookies.

Jennifer - posted on 02/24/2009

Don't worry. After my daughter's 9 month check up, I started giving her avacado, bananas, pasta, etc. and she ate it all. About a week later, she would make a face and not touch the stuff. She'll eat crackers and cheerios (the crunchy stuff!), so it has to be texture. She wouldn't even eat the chunky #3 foods! Now we're doing well with the Graduates meals, and I gave her some things I've made that have bigger chunks (like beef roast!), and she's doing better. I keep trying to give her chunkier things.  We'll work into it. I still give her some #3 stuff for variety and let her try to feed herself. I'm just trying not to get too worked up about it since they all do everyting at their own pace, and she's getting all her nutrients! The doc said as long as she gets 3 servings of fruits and veggies per day that's fine. So no worries! 

Joni - posted on 02/18/2009

My little one cannot get enough applesauce. She also loves anything spicy: curry, taco meat, sausages. She also digs the gerber dried fruit which i love because we just keep a bag in her diaper bag for when we are on the go. She has lately gotten into cereal bars, too.

Misty - posted on 02/18/2009

My son, Jayden, eats everything.  The only food I've given him that he absolutely refused to eat was lima beans (and I can't say that I blame him!).  He generally eats whatever we eat but we never have trouble at restaurants or at other people's houses because he will eat anything we can break up for him.  He is beginning to "dip" his foods and loves anything he can dip into ketchup, mustard, salsa, ranch, etc.  Jayden hasn't taken a bottle since before his first birthday.  He generally gets an 8 oz cup of V-8 fusion juice and water (mixed 1/2 and 1/2) and as much milk as he requests each day.  He says drink and milk and will ask for his "baba".  He calls his sippy cup a baba.  He also drinks from a regular straw. 

Esther - posted on 02/18/2009

Quoting whitney:

Quoting whitney:

it's a terrible cycle!  ahhhh.....we need to figure something out before our next little guy arrives, though, or we'll be in a heap of exhaustion.  does everyone's 14 month old still take their milk (ours is on next step or soy) BEFORE, DURING, or AFTER they eat their meals?!  our son still drinks his bottle prior to the meal.

he's only eating 2 stage 3 jars for each meal - is that enough?  (plus 4-5 ozs of "milk")?

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My almost 14-month old now eats whatever we eat at dinner and eats whatever they serve at the daycare for his other meals during the week. But he definitely also still takes his bottles! And so does every other kid in his class. I only have one child so I'm pretty clueless and therefore generally take my daycare's lead on these types of things. He (and all the other kids in his class - all around the same age) gets a 4 oz bottle in the morning (usually still formula - just the "next step" variety), then breakfast at 8:30 AM, a bottle (regular milk, somewhere between 4-6 oz) at 9:30, lunch at 11:30, another cow's milk bottle at 12:30, snack at 3 PM, bottle at 4:30 PM, sometimes another bottle at around 5:30 PM, dinner at 6 PM and his last (usually 8 oz formula) bottle before he goes to bed at around 7:30 PM. And my son also still wakes up for another bottle (around 4 oz) in the middle of the night.

As I said Lucas (my son) eats pretty much what we eat now, however, in terms of the amount of food he eats, I don't think it's nearly as much as 2 stage 3 jars for each meal. So it seems to me like your son is getting PLENTY of food. I would not be worried at all! And he'll get to the regular foods when he's ready. I don't think there are a lot of 18-year-olds still on baby food so somehow they all get there. Who cares if it's a little later than others?

Good luck with #2 and with the bedrest! Sorry you have to go through that but of course it'll totally be worth it.

Tulasi - posted on 02/15/2009

My 14 month old used to eat everything I put in front of her.  Now it seems she is on a hunger strike.  She only will eat carbs and fruit.  I asked her doctor if I should be concerned but she said no.  She said keep putting the food on her tray and don't give up on the healthy stuff.  Anybody else having the same problem?

User - posted on 02/14/2009

my son loves lots of different foods..he loves hamburger patties (not greasy) chicken nuggets, shredded chicken, rice, pasta...fruits, veggies, lots of stuff.

Once babies turn one in my school, then they are completely OFF gerber and onto regular school lunchs..although if its hotdogs, or like beef tacos, they will get a substitue....mac and cheese or noodles and turkey..they don't eat foods hard/sharp for that matter, but they do eat a school lunch... so, I had to try and give him that at home too.

Whitney - posted on 02/13/2009

we're really struggling on the food thing. we were in the midst of moving over a period of a few months, etc., and everytime we tried putting "table food" or even just the graduate fruit pieces, etc., on my son's tray, he would have NOTHING to do with any of it.  he'd squinch his face up and just spit it out.  i guess i kept postponing the inevitable because i was waiting until we got "settled" into our home (which we moved into at the beginning of january).  he tackles cheerios, etc., but when it has anything to do with something funny textured, then freaks out.

now my "wait and see" approach has gone awry because i was admitted on hospital bedrest with my 2nd son (30 weeks pregnant), so i'm not able to transition him myself - my mother-in-law is in the dreaded position now.  he's not stubborn, but i guess we're afraid he'll not get as many calories if we let him feed himself (OH - he also has a terrible milk and lactose allergy) or put table food on his tray, so we are still reverting to feeding him stage 3 baby food.  and we feel terrible!  we really don't know how to move forward - i guess we're being selfish because we don't want him waking at night for a bottle (which he STILL does - even if we let him scream crying for an hour - hour and a half straight) more often because he's not getting enough calories. 

it's a terrible cycle!  ahhhh.....we need to figure something out before our next little guy arrives, though, or we'll be in a heap of exhaustion.  does everyone's 14 month old still take their milk (ours is on next step or soy) BEFORE, DURING, or AFTER they eat their meals?!  our son still drinks his bottle prior to the meal.

he's only eating 2 stage 3 jars for each meal - is that enough?  (plus 4-5 ozs of "milk")?

Sarah - posted on 02/13/2009

my little one eats everything..spaghetti, hamburger patties, chicken fruits veggies and crakcers, eggs, yoghurt she has had cake on her birthday but other than that i dont allow it.she doesnt get juice only water and she doesnt get a lot of "treats" although mommy sometimes slips and shares some ice-cream with her.but 99% of the time its all healthy.although recently shes started deciding she no longer likes food that she's always loved like peas or sweet potatoes but i think shes just starting to assert herself on her likes and dis-likes

Jan - posted on 02/12/2009

Everything, haven't found a thing she won't eat. She even loves shrimp and fish, spinach, asparagus any thing green, spicy...Food in general. However we started solid food at 6 weeks. By 6 months she was hardley eating baby food.

Elizabeth - posted on 02/11/2009

First son ate nothing. Second son eats anything that isn't tied down....I think if I combined them, then I would have a textbook eater....

Jen - posted on 02/11/2009

My dauhgter doesn't eat anything fried or greesy. She loves chicken, pasta, rice, veggies, fruit, pretty much everything. She has had chicken nuggets, but that's the only thing fast food wise we've given her. She usually eats a gerber graduate meal for lunch and then for dinner she usually eats what we're eating. Of everything we've given her the only thing that she hasn;t liked is lettuce (which is normal) and she picks at ground beef, but will eat it. I think she's more into eating white meats like me, but I do eat more red meat than I used to as a kid.

Regan - posted on 02/11/2009

I feel like we're behind on foods sometimes.  We were way too cautious in the beginning and now we're "behind."  Morgan eats all the fresh fruits/veggies (avocado, peas, carrots, banana, apples, pears, green beans, etc etc) and eats SOME meat  (turkey and chicken) but we had to hold off on certain foods b/c she has a milk allergy and we're trying the milk anyways (beef, cheese, eggs) which we'll try next.  She eats goldfish, puffs, rice cakes, etc sparingly but that's about it.  We havent' done cake, ice cream, cookies, macaroni and cheese, chicken nuggets, etc like other people have.  We're still on the basics which isn't so bad b/c she loves her fruits and veggies.  We'll get there.