lynnef@teklabs.UUCP (09/29/83)
I am wondering -- what do you people out there with small (1-2 yrs) children
feed them, besides Gerber? I am trying to get my daughter to eat non-babyfood,
and I need some ideas that can be cooked quickly. We would usually feed her
what we have for supper, but we eat late. Just for starters, I made up a
rice-cheese-zucchini dish for her last night. It was so good I made some
more for our supper.
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feed them anything you eat. buy a portable hand food grinder (about $10). you will soon discover what they like and don't like. We happened to be travelling in Italy when our first daughter was starting solid foods, so the "introduce one new food every three days" rule went right out the window - we were eating something new every meal, so so did our daughter. She seemed to come through it alright.
bill@utastro.UUCP (10/03/83)
When our kids were that age (1-2) they were eating much the same food that the grownups ate, but ground up in a "happy baby" food grinder -- this is a marvelous device, you just put the food in, turn the crank, and spoon it into baby's mouth (or put it in the bowl if baby is self-feeding). We cooked the food with less or no salt (good for your blood pressure too) and found that we actually liked the food better when salt was used more sparingly.
wilner@pegasus.UUCP (10/05/83)
Having fed three toddlers by now, the answer is to give them exactly what you eat, only put through the "Happy Baby Food Grinder" (Bowland-Jacobs Mfg. Co., Spring Valley, Illinois). It's ok that you eat late: save some of your dinner for tomorrow and zap it in the microwave. With a food grinder, you can go to restaurants, no matter what is on the menu, or go to friends' houses, and not have to cart any jars along.
harvey@trsvax.UUCP (10/06/83)
#R:teklabs:-251200:trsvax:34100002:000:717 trsvax!harvey Oct 4 09:39:00 1983 We have a 2 1/2 year old and a 1 1/2 year old, and find that we can feed them whatever we're having as long as we cut things into small pieces. Here's a small list of things that they like and are easy to prepare. Hot dogs (remove the skin) Balogna American cheese slices Mashed potatoes Rice Ground meat (meat loaf, meat balls, hamburgers, etc.) Sausage Scrambled eggs Most canned vegetables Spagetti Most canned junk foods (Cosmic Kids, Roller Coasters, etc.) Fish sticks Chicken (especially the part of the wing that looks like a small drumstick. The love to chew on it) Just avoid things like nuts, corn niblets, and raisons (they're hard to digest). Harvey Lefer ctvax!trsvax!harvey