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Dinner Please, Hold the Chunks

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Since Avery is now crawling, he has graduated into a new stage of foods!  He’s moved on from the ‘sitter’ stage to the ‘crawler’ stage in Gerber Foods. (Yes, I’ve abandoned the homemade baby food.  A working mom can only do so much!)

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We’re right on target with introducing foods too, because we’re tried all the ‘sitter’ stage foods – except strawberries.  We’re holding off on those, because they’re a common allergy.  But of the new ‘sitter’ foods, he loves broccoli, yogurt, and chicken.  He doesn’t care for pineapple or raspberries though.

Here’s a peak into Avery’s cabinet in the kitchen.

I know, I can be an organization freak sometimes!  But when it comes to Avery and his feedings and schedule, organizing stuff like this just makes life easier!  So, he has a fruit for breakfast, veggie at lunch, yogurt for snack, and meat for dinner.  We have another cabinet of the ‘new’ foods he hasn’t tried… we keep them in another cabinet so we don’t accidentally choose something he hasn’t tried yet.

So, when it was time to start the ‘crawler’ foods, I bought a couple varieties and tried them out.  Well, I really only had to try one to see that Avery DID NOT like them…

Doesn’t he look thrilled?! You see the food on the spoon… how it’s kinda…chunky?  Well the difference from the ‘supported sitter’ and ‘sitter’ stage wasn’t much change in consistency… but introduced proteins and other veggies & fruits.  But this new ‘crawler’ stage food has small ‘chunks’ of food.  And apparently, Avery doesn’t like chunks…

Because it was the same beef & veggies food that he had in the ‘sitter’ stage… but the consistancy left him looking very unsatisfied…to say the least…

NOT a happy eater! He did not like the chunks and just spit them out eventually.  Oh well…we will keep trying.  He’s still getting the hang of chewing with his two teeth… so maybe some more practice on puffs & cookies is needed before we move onto these big kid foods – those he does know how to pickup and eat with his hands!

Are your kiddos picky eaters?  What foods do they love and hate?  Avery’s favorite is yogurt and applesauce – he would eat them every meal, every day if we let him!

First Food(ie) Reviews

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Our Future Foodie has finished trying all the Gerber 1st Foods!  When he turned 4 months, Avery was at the ‘Supported Sitter Stage’, where he could sit in a highchair and knows to open his mouth for a spoon, etc.  This is when we started him on rice cereal, then every 4 days, we introduced a new food, allowing time for any allergies to show.  Here’s a breakdown of Avery’s first foodie reviews:

Avery’s First Food(ie) Reviews:

Applesauce:

Sweet Potatoes:

Pears:

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Squash:

Bananas:

Peas:

Peaches:

Carrots:

Prunes:

Green Beans:

We were lucky to not encounter any allergies and Avery loved everything he tried!  I think we had more fun watching Avery try them than he did… :)   I certainly became more talented myself, learning to feed him while video taping and taking pictures at the same time.  It was tough, and some days I found crusty food on my phone from a previous meal, but it was worth sharing the fun videos and pictures with everyone!

That concludes the First Foods.  Next?  Second Foods (imagine that!).  This stage begins around 6 months and is considered the ‘Sitter Stage’.  Avery has been getting very close to sitting up for extended periods of time by himself, so we’re starting him on these new foods.  How are they different from the ‘First Foods’?  There are mixtures (aka apples & bananas) and new foods to try!  We’ll share more photos as Avery tries these new foods in the upcoming months…

What foods does you little one love?  Do you have a schedule or method for introducing new foods? Do you try the food too?  We’ve tried a couple… and Vinay swears they’re pretty good… compared to Avery’s formula that is (which he can’t stand the smell of!)

Millions of Peaches… Peaches for me

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“Movin’ to the Country I’m Gonna eat a Lot of Peaches…”

I start singing that song whenever I hear the word peaches :)   And once you see Avery’s reaction to peaches, you’ll see that he wishes he had millions of them to eat! Here’s the play by play:

The first spoonful – cereal & peaches.

The reaction – hmmm what’s that?

fast forward 5 minutes and it’s finger licking good…

The bowl is empty but someone is looking for more…

Is there any left in there?

hmm maybe he can lick it clean…

And the aftermath…

To say Avery enjoys peaches is an understatement!  And as always, we followed this messy adventure with a bath – in which our little man was still looking for more food and chomping on everything in sight…

peaches is our second to last ‘first food’.  Green beans are next and then we’re on to the next level ‘Sitter’ once Avery masters sitting up on his own – should be in the next couple weeks as he turns 6 months.  He can sit upright a second or two now… so we’re working on it!  Then he’ll graduate into the next food level and we’ll have more fun foods to try!