Vegetables: Infant
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Not Eating Vegetables
Asked by K.W. from Lawton
on March 19, 2008
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My 7 month baby girl will not eat vegetables. She was first introduced to carrots and sweet potatoes... and ate them. Now that i have started giving her fruits she wil...
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- K.--when my son was smaller he also preferred fruits over veggies (and still does). Think about it...fruit is so much sweeter than veggies, therefore more appealing. ...
- When my baby was little, I would put some of a food he didn't like on the spoon with one he did, like green beans and applesauce. I'd start out with a lot of the food...
- Your problem is just the opposite of mine! I have a 7 month old who does not like fruits. I finally discovered that he does like peaches, but that's it fruit-wise. ...
Won't Eat Vegetables
Asked by M.G. from San Francisco
on February 24, 2008
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Hi All, m 5 year-old daughter will not, WILL NOT eat vegetables. We have to darn near pry her mouth open just to get in a few kernels of corn or a couple green beans....
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- There are a couple of books that have good recipes for "hiding" veggies in your children's food - Deceptively Delicious and Sneaky Veggies. I would try it. My friend...
- We sell nutritional supplements that are completely balanced nutrition. Some flavors are designed for kids, and many times we have clients that have very remarkable h...
- Hi, I have the same problem... have you seen that cookbook by Jessica Seinfeld where she purees the veggies and adds them to things? That seems to work really well. ...
Child Wil Not Eat Veggies!
Asked by T.B. from Rochester
on January 3, 2008
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We've been trying to introduce solids to our 6 month old, but he hates vegetables. I've been told not to give him fruit right away because then he'll never eat veggie...
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- The first food I gave my daughter was avocado and she ate it with no problem. Are you using store bought baby food or making it yourself? If you aren't making it, yo...
- I was blessed with veggie eaters, but I do recall a time in which mixing the disliked veggies with homemade applesauce and then cutting down on the amount of applesauc...
- Have you tried butternut squash? My kids loved that. I also found that my kids loved yogurt. If your baby likes cereal, that has the most nutrition in it anyway, so...
Introducing Veggies
Asked by A.W. from Columbus
on March 26, 2008
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I am getting ready to start feeding my 4 month old daughter vegetables but I have heard a varitey of different ways to start. I have heard to start with greens, then m...
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- I started my daughter with the green veggies not because that is what anyone told me to do but I figured they were blander. I was afraid if I started with something l...
- A., I used a book called The Super Baby Food Book by Ruth Yaron. She is strictly vegetarian and had lots of great advice on making homemade baby food. I had great suc...
- Start with squash. The yellow veggies are sweeter and easier for the babies to accept. Then go to the carrots. and then peas and then the beans because the beans see...
6 Month Old Not Sleeping Well After Introducing Green Beans
Asked by B.R. from Indianapolis
on July 27, 2008
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My 6 month old recently started on solids. He's been eating rice cereal now for a few weeks. He's had a week of sweet potatoes, and two days ago we started green bea...
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- Try pulling the green beans and see it that helps. If he gets better over a couple days then he probably doesnt tolerate them. My son has Eosinophilic Esophagitis and ...
- Just a suggestion, but we did this with my brother who woke during the night on the advise of our family physician (my brother is now 47) and I did this with both of m...
- A friend of mine had a similiar issue with her child. Certain vegetables bothered his stomach and would wake him at night. He is an excellent sleeper otherwise. He did...
Eat Your Green Vegetables?
Asked by J.A. from Youngstown
on January 28, 2007
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My daughter has mastered all of the fruits and she also loves sweet potatoes and squash, but the green vegetables make her gag or she spits them out. I have tried them...
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- J., The green vegetables have a stronger flavor and a lot of times babies just aren't ready for the stronger flavors. Try mixing a green vegetable with another veg...
- This also brings back memories for me. We went through the jar food thing with my first, but decided it wasn't worth it with my second. My sister and I spent an afte...
- You may want to try making them the way that you normally eat them, butter salt, than throw them in a minni food processer and if she still doesn't like them, stop try...
Toddler Won't Eat Vegetables
Asked by D.W. from San Francisco
on July 1, 2008
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My two year old son hardly ever eats vegetables. Sometimes we can successfully hide veggies in food - spinach is easy to hide, sometimes mashing carrots work. I woul...
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- You know what my mother in law did to get her four adult sons to eat vegetables (she has one who WILL NOT eat any vegetables)…she cooked cauliflower and then puréed...
- Dr. Praeger's Veggie Burgers(available at Trader Jo's) are lots of veggies and my toddler loves them!
- If you have a food processor or chopper, try this: get a small bag of pre-washed baby spinach and about 1.5 cups baby carrots and process/chop until they are almost p...
How Do I Make & Prepare Frozen Peas for My 6Th Month Old? Other Veggie Recipes?
Asked by J.K. from Honolulu
on September 1, 2008
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Hi Mamas! I want to feed my 6th month old daughter some frozen peas but the book I'm following (Super Baby Food) says not to re-freeze the peas after cooking them. I ...
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- My son loves Beets I boiled them and then blended them. At first he was just interested in them because of the color but then he would yell when I would not feed it t...
- I like to make butternut and zucchini. I just peel them, steam them and strain them...my 7 month old loves it
- I have made peas for my daughter and I used the no salt frozen peas, cooked them and then put them in blender and then re-freezed them. They seemed fine and never bot...
Not Eating Veggies
Asked by T.R. from Phoenix
on November 12, 2007
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My 8 month old son suddenly lost all interest in eating his veggies. He does well with everything else and used to eat the whole jar of veggies in one sitting. I feed ...
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- I used to have the same problem. I figured out that if I did veggies and fruit at the same sitting (1/2 a jar of each), I could get her to eat her veggies. I would gi...
- it could also be a phase hes going through. then again... you could be right, he just doesnt like veggies anymore. my son was like that, he used to love his veggies an...
- Hello. I went through the exact same thing with my son who is now 2 1/2. I have had a lot of luck with frozen veggies. I'll buy frozen peas, corn, carrots, green beans...
Get Child to Eat Vegetables.
Asked by C.B. from Albuquerque
on November 2, 2006
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I need some ideas on how to get my 3 year old to eat his vegetables. I have tried cheese and salad dressing. He will eat the cheese and dressing but not the veggies....
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- I found melted Velveeta cheese (mixed with a little milk) on my 3 year old's veggies helps. He's gotten very picky though. He used to eat everything! I keep offerin...
- Cut them into fun shapes, make little pictures on the plate using them, make them a readily available snack your 3 year old can get himself. Sometimes being a big boy ...
- Hi C.~ Both of my children love vegetables! I'm curious though, did you give your three year old veggies when he was little? It seems sometimes they are an acquired ...
