What's healthy?
I have 2 questions for the hip mamas today. I will break them into 2 blogs, so here is the first...what do you feed a 10 month old? I really want to teach DD to have healthier eating habits then DH and I do. The problem is that I am so confused about what is healthy and what is not, and it seems to keep changing. I can't keep up with adult health, let alone infant/toddler. She loves to eat what we are eating, and climbs over me to get to whatever I have. But she still only has 2 teeth so my options are a bit limited. I feel like she is eating a ton of carbs and a ton of fruit & yellow veggies. Is that too much sugar? I do give her some cheese and beans; but otherwise, it is bananas, peaches, apples, cheerios, bread, rice things like that. She will eat peas and green beans and she loves spinach, but only in a puree. What solid foods did you start with and how much fruit, carbs, and yellow veggies did you allow? Any good meal ideas?
A couple of things that I remember S loved at that age:
tofu
beans: black beans, kidney beans, garbanzo beans
yogurt - we did plain yogurt and added in other things.
egg whites
We made healthy mini-muffins and she loved those. Sometimes sweet and sometimes savory.
avocado
We pretty much have always let her eat what we are having.
everything i've read says no egg whites until one year. i don't know, nia loves scrambled egg yolks though!
she also really likes small bits of pasta and tomoato sauce, veggie booty, apples (with no peel for those with fewer teeth, and pieces of chicken breast
plus all the things that sunshine recommended up there
"you can't get to freedom on Pharoah's chariot" - MLK Jr.
Ooops - Egg yolks. Yes, no whites until after a year... Ooops.
Speaking of that, another thing that S really loved at this age was pancakes. We bought a whole grain mix and made them with yolks only. Throw in some fruit. They are pretty portable, too.
My kid is 10 mos, and just started getting that second tooth (and nighttime is a horror movie around here between nursing and my husband snoring...grr)
I started with avacado and banana, now we do some rice/oat or millet cereals, beans & rice, pears, kale, applesauce, squash, lentils, tofu, carrot, cherries, small peices of frozen blackberry and blueberry, peas and also great organic pea soup mix from the bulk section at our grocery store (esp mixed with some rice cereal), rye crackers, goat yogurt, green beans, barley cereal, peach, papaya, mango, spinach, zucchini, grapes, broccoli, sweet potato, potato, beets, plums and kiwi.
We rotate through what we have, I usually do 3 meals + snacks and nursing. I kind of rotate through the foods roughly, offering 1-3 things a meal and usually some of it is finger-food (so cooked peices of fruits and veggies, or rye cracker peices). I usually do a fruit and cereal based breakfast, and protien. veggie and carb and fruit for lunch and dinner (mixing some stuff like carrot puree and tofu in little chunks, or cereal and fruit mashed up or yogurt and fruit)
I checked the book Feeding the Whole Family out from the library, and it made me feel like I was doing an ok job, it has tips and recipes, but a lot of it is like vegetarian stuff and "give some plain cooked rice to baby". I had hoped for more. There is also Superbaby Food which is kinda whacky, but helpful and talks about nutrition and serving size and what to feed by month of life. And some weird stuff too like how to get out stains, make your own yogurt, cheap tips and how to make kids toys out of garbage.
As he eats more foods it is easier - last night I made soup and saved a bunch of veggies out for him before seasoning. I love that deal. Also for some foods that we eat I can just mash them (or you could use a foodmill) and he can eat them.
We also do the icecube tray food thing and some commercial organic baby jars and we save the jars to reuse to take more food to go. He eats better than we do, I think. We don't do juice, cow-dairy or wheat or regular sugar or eggs, nuts etc yet and will probably wait as long as possible.
I'm late here, but with both my kids, tofu was the easiest food ever. They loved it - would eat a whole plateful of the stuff! Lots of good protein, there.
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- Anthromom
Avocado, squash, all sorts of veggies, fruits, should all be favored. My son also loves fish, and would eat salmon and other fish from an early age. If you ate fish and other allergenic foods while you were breastfeeding and the baby didn't react, chances are she isn't going to have a violent allergic reaction now. Not all carbs are an issue, but rice and other cereals are glycemic, and are linked to diabetes.
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Wow good tips thanks. I am doing some of these things already, but there are lots of good ideas here, and I appreciate it. I have a cook book, but my mother got it for me, and I am not crazy about it. So I will defiantly check out the books you suggested. As for the egg white, egg yoke thing, our dr. said no eggs period until after a year. She said no eggs, nuts, honey or strawberries. She said dairy is ok now, as long as I am not replacing it for nursing. Like I said I don't always know how to eat well for me, so I am intimidated by feeding her well. So thanks again for the help.