It’s no secret that our son, Krew loves his food. We are incredibly blessed to have a good eater on our hands! He eats a pretty good variety of foods, but he definitely has his favorites. If it was his way, he’d eat macaroni and cheese, chicken nuggets with ketchup, and oranges all day every day. It could be worse.
Let me start by saying, I’m just sharing what worked for us as far as his eating journey goes. Every baby and family is different and I cannot stress enough to do what works for you, your babe, and your family. I’m not an expert by any means, just a mama sharing what she feeds her little babe. We definitely encouraged Krew to eat well, but he totally took the reigns on some foods and surprised the heck out of us on what he liked and didn’t like! They will let you know, mama.
Eating Journey
Krew started on purées a tiny bit (really just tasting) them around 4 months. He was eating one or two types of purées every day around 6 months with milk being the number one source of nutrition. We didn’t stress about the purées, more like “if he eats it great, if he doesn’t oh well” because we knew the milk was the most important at this point. He got teeth fairly early, which allowed us to start playing with other foods when we saw fit. We tried a puff around 7.5 months, and he wasn’t ready (mama freaked out a little) because he didn’t know to really chew yet. Anywhoooo, that led us to put it off a little longer because we weren’t in a rush. We did start letting him have some refried beans at Mexican restaurants around this time too because they’re so similar to purées. He LOVED them. As he got closer to 8-8.5 months we let him have small bites or bananas, avocados, and eggs, which he didn’t like at the time because of texture (he loves them now.) He was still doing his bottles and purées and eating them very well! We just played around with some soft foods and let him kind of try some things here and there so he could get more comfortable. He did love the rice rusks, cheese crunchies, and puffs around 8-9 months because they all dissolved pretty well but allowed him to learn to chew a little. My top thing I want to say is that all of this was trial and error 100%. And it still is sometimes! He slowly started to do better with real food and around 11 months he was eating a lot more table food (he also had more teeth too). Now he eats so many different things, but just recently in the past 3-4 months has really taken an interest in feeding himself with the utensils. We still use the pouches for snacks or lunch with other things! It’s all been such a learning curve for him and me and Brandon, so we’ve just been totally figuring out what works for us and him together!
I’ve put together a list of our go-tos that Krew eats all the time and loves. We try to keep it simple, easy, get a pretty good variety, and from one mama to another, it doesn’t have to all be perfect all the time! Yes, we do frozen meals, frozen pizzas, uncrustables, instant macaroni and cheese, chocolate milk. These aren’t off the wall suggestions, they are super simple and some are healthy some probably aren’t, but like I said, this is what works for us! Side note: Krew eats what we eat for dinner a lot of nights, unless we’re doing something he doesn’t like, or if it’s spicy, or we’ll just tweak his meal to be similar to ours! There are breakfast options, lunch/dinner options, and snack options. I didn’t place together meals because you can put anything from the list together for whatever your little likes! I hope it can give some inspiration for what to feed your littles!
Breakfast
- Grits (with or without cheese)
- Scrambled eggs (this is where we’ll mix in some things just to add a little more flavor like ham and cheese or things he wouldn’t usually eat by themselves like avocado)
- Cinnamon toast
- Peanut butter toast
- Fruit (oranges, bananas, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, grapes // we’ll also cut some of these up and mix them together at the beginning of the week)
- Waffles/pancakes (he also loves fruit syrup instead of regular)
- Hashbrowns
- Cinnamon rolls
- Yogurt
Lunch/Dinner
- Ham and cheese sandwich or roll ups
- Carrots (cooked)
- Fruit
- Macaroni and cheese
- Lasagna
- Spaghetti
- Butter and Parmesan noodles
- Hamburger helper cheeseburger macaroni
- Any pasta and sauce (he loves the rotini noodles)
- Pizza (totally do frozen sometimes)
- Green beans
- Chicken nuggets
- Fries/tater tots
- Cheesy rice
- Pb&j (uncrustables)
- Cheese quesadilla
- Grilled cheese with pickles (the pickles totally shocked us!)
- Sweet potatoes
- Potatoes
- Chicken casserole
Snacks
- Pirates booty
- Cheese puffs
- Goldfish
- Ritz
- Pouches
- Kids clif bars (z-bars // he likes the iced oatmeal and peanut butter cookie ones)
- Vanilla wafers
- Cheez-its
- Fruit loops
- Graham crackers with peanut butter
- Fruit
Okay so with any of these lists (other than snacks) you can just pick 2-3 and make a simple meal with some variety for your littles! Also, if you have a picky eater, choose something they love and try to put things in it or with it (avocado in eggs, fruit in pancakes or waffles, cheese on some veggies, fruit in yogurt.) Try to not stress about it and just get them to eat what they will of course! And like I said, I’m no expert, just sharing our personal experiences! I hope this was helpful and let me know if you have any questions!
I’m just a mama feeding her little babe.
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