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11month old eating habits!

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 31 March 2011 - 09:55

Hi ladies, I need some help.
My wee girl is 11 months old-she has 3 bottles a day but I'm struggling with solids. I'm not so worried about breakfast or lunch but we struggle at dinner time. She happily eats weetabix/rice crispies and fruit for breakie and usually sandwiches or scrambled egg for lunch. At dinnertime she won't try lumpier food from spoon only stage 1 puree's (shop bought) ot finger food but I'm running out of ideas for finger food. Usually chicken strips!!

Any ideas on different finger foods or how to get her eating from spoon and onto home cooked meals. Tried pasta and tomato based recipes but refused to take them or spits it out and cry's her heart out. I just want to make sure she gets a balanced diet- really don't want her to become a fussy eater.

Have any of you been through this? I'm also wanting to get her off bottle onto a cup and onto real cows milk but feel I need to get her solid intake sorted first.

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 31 March 2011 - 14:23
AAaah my little girl is almost the same age and seems like they're going through the same phase lol. I tried letting her feed herself with her spoon and there was more food in her hair and on her face than made it to her mouth, I guess it's how they learn, I just hate trying to clean it all up :) It was way more messy than the finger food so we're just sticking with that for now too! Have you tried baking strips of sweet potato with some cinnamon sprinkled on them? The other thing I found by accident that she loves is if you mash some potato you can add all sorts to it like flaked salmon and cheese and roll it into little balls for them to pick up and eat. The majority of the time I just cut up whatever we're eating into small pieces and she soon hoovers it up :)
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EW EXPERT
Latest post on 31 March 2011 - 11:57
Thanks for that- she does brill with finger foods and chunks of fruit so might try your idea of pasta shells and bigger lumps of veg that she can pick up. Gave her spoon and fork to hold but ends up chewing them instead of food!!! Looking forward to the day she has all her teeth and the drooling will stop!! hehe - but it's all part of the process really. My son spent months and months mashing his food up with the fork, pushing it around, or only managing to pick one grain of rice up with it, but now he has no problem at all... although sometimes he still abandons it in favour of handfuls stuffed in! I'd just go for it. She's old enough, capable enough and interested enough to eat what you'd eat - how you'd eat it.
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Latest post on 31 March 2011 - 11:37
Thanks for that- she does brill with finger foods and chunks of fruit so might try your idea of pasta shells and bigger lumps of veg that she can pick up. Gave her spoon and fork to hold but ends up chewing them instead of food!!! Looking forward to the day she has all her teeth and the drooling will stop!!
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Latest post on 31 March 2011 - 11:19
Personally, I'm all for skipping the spoon stage and going straight to knives and forks. It's a bit hard-core, but if you're not happy about giving her purees still, just don't... especially if she's happy with finger foods! At 11 months, she probably wants to copy you. Both my two were clamouring for "proper" cutlery and proper food from quite early. Go for lumpy meals with no mashing at all - pasta shells, for example, so that she can either pick them up with her hands or try and spear them with a fork. Also go for chunky steamed veg, chunks of fruit and strips of meat. It's a classic case of letting her suck it and see! ;)
 
 

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