I am a daycare provider and at 11 months it is all about the protein. You are doing good with chicken, beans and cheese. Try these things.....tuna, eggs, & anything lean in meat. By the time by little ones turn 1 they are pretty much eating what the older kids are eating just in smaller porportions. Just stay away from Hot dogs, popcorn, peanut butter, & honey.
Good Luck.
well cooked, chopped vegetables (broccoli, carrots, squash)
soft, peeled fruit (peaches, nectarines, plums, kiwi)
bananas
avocado
gold fish crackers
waffles
oatmeal
yogurt
**remember to ask your child's doctor prior to introducing new foods
My son loves to feed himself yogurt, cottage cheese rice using his spoon -- it is a mess but great practice. In addition, you can have her hand feed herself -- cut up pieces of penne shaped pasta with butter or a light sause, canned green beans, frozen veggies of any kind, potaotes, pieces of toast. My son ate all of these things at 11 months.
My son did the same thing - all of a sudden would not eat baby food. We've tried everything I could think of...some of the things he likes a lot are Snapea crisps (made from peas) from Trader Joes, carrots raw and cooked, that he can pick up with his fingers, also Gerber makes toddler finger food, which is just freeze-dried fruits and veggies, and he loves those. Peices of apple, banana, strawberries..... and I just feed him small peices of whatever we are eating. At that age I could also scramble an egg and put it on his high chair tray and he'd eat that up, but now won't touch them for some reason. Mine is pretty picky - friend's kids will eat anything - but I just always keep an eye out when at the grocery or health food store for healthy things that we can try. Sometimes I'll put something away and two weeks later he'll eat it when he wouldn't at first. And when all else fails - he STILL occasionally will eat a jar of baby food - especially when his teeth hurt and he doesn't want to chew. Good luck!
The obvious answer is cheerios, but guess what, my son loves the mini Nilla Wafers. They're bite size, but not too sweet. Also, try cutting up fruit unto small chunks for her, and to make them less slippery, coat them in ground up cheerios. I found the ground up cheerio trick works for any hard to handle food.
Good Luck
Mia
i am a dad that has been raising my baby girl for the past nine months, she is eleven months old now and i gave up on all baby food 4 or 5 months ago, i may have fed it to her for a month at most. i preferred to make her my own foods. before i get shot at i will stress that she has not had a cold, or ear infection, or any other medical issue, bfeeding exclusively for the first 6 months and top quality soy formula in addition to bm at night, has been the major factor, but i also refuse to let her cry or stress. egg yolk, scrambled eggs w/spinach, oatmeal (steel cut), cheerios, blueberries ( which she loves ), bananas, mangoes, apples, omelettes w/yucca and or avocado, recently, french toast w/whole grain bread, and long grain brown rice and beans, and whole wheat pasta. i am writing a blog about it because if i can raise a baby anybody can
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