Feeding a 7 Month Old - Greenville,SC

Mashed up banana

Mashed up avocado

Canned pumpkin

Bake sweet potatoes in the oven at about 400 or 425. Poke holes in them, rinse them under water, then wrap in aluminum foil. Bake about 45 minutes or until done. Then, scoop the meat out and send it through a food processor mixed with a little breast milk or formula, or just feed him the "meat" right out of the potato. Super healthy!

I love this website - tons of great ideas!

Finger foods on same website - http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/babyfingerfood.htm

pasta, cheese (shredded or cubed) , sliced ham cut in little squares, banana pieces ( messy though) , mushy fries. etc

some of my kids' favorites have been baked potatoes (seasoned and cut up b4 baking), pancakes, cantaloupe, rice puffs/cakes, just about any muffin. OK, now I'm drawing a blank; good luck

Steamed carrots (cut up), steamed green beans (cut up), slightly smashed chick peas

I only did baby food at 7 months. Nothing else. Unless maybe cheerios or something? As they get older, I start giving the more table foods from dinner. My 11 month old now refuses baby food (it's offensive to her...hehe), and so she eats almost a meal herself. Her favorite lately is meatloaf, which the iron is relaly good at her age.

Anyway, I don't know if that helps any! I just give baby food (if that! often mine are older than usual before I offer anything besides nursing).

I always go by the list I got from the pediatrician and it says just to do baby food until 9 months. So that's what I did. At 6 mos you can do the meats and the Stage 2 foods. At 8 mos Stage 3 foods. At 9 mos finger foods like soft banana, cooked vegetables, teething biscuits, soft crackers like Ritz, strips of soft cheese like American, Cheerios, Gerber Graduates, Puffs, and yogurt. At 10 mos I started really just cutting everything we ate up into tiny pieces. I would even peel grapes and cut them up tiny. The list stressed just not to do: honey, cow's milk, peanut butter, or eggs until a year old and to avoid choking hazards like: nuts, popcorn, hot dogs, raw veggies and gum.

Last night my 7 month old DEVOURED veg-all...you know that canned vegitable/potato mix? She LOVED it! Also loves Kix cereal...