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 My dh is from Arizona, and always talks about how much it sucks because of the heat. But deserty stuff is so pretty. And land is cheaper than in Oregon. And every house has a pool. New Mexico appeals to me too.
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Originally Posted by mommitola
My first food was Kraft macaroni and cheese at 5 months. And I'm fine! Haha, no, not really. My aunt sneaked it to me, which of course enraged my mother. That's been my all time favorite binge food my whole life. The next food I tried was mashed potatoes. Again, thanks to that aunt. Second favorite binge food. I know that's only silly anecdotal observation, but that's one reason we're just not going to feed processed food to Harper until she's old enough to understand a little more about nutrition and moderation. It's been really hard to unlearn old habits as we try to address health and lifestyle issues as a family. I want to be careful about setting examples and introducing things that are potentially addictive (yes, sometimes I seriously crave something nasty like McDonald's fries - WTH do they put in those?! Dairy and traces of peanuts, actually
 ). There's a big history of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and cancer on both sides of our family, so we're doing what we can. Sometimes convenience wins, but we'll die trying, I guess. |
: Hee. Won't eat Spaghetti O's but will eat Kraft. BUT since I usually make mac and cheese from scratch and dh likes it better, he will never let me have it. So I get it maybe once a year....Quote:
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Originally Posted by chiromama
well i'm out if we're going to the south, or the mid west... i gotta live on the egde - i can't live in the middle.
Is Ruby the only one with little interest in solids? shes tried avocado and sweet potato, and didn't care much for either...  you guys! |
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Originally Posted by The4OfUs
Thank you!
Just a little bit  : Seems like another one now, too - for the past 2 days doing nothing but eating and sleeping.... |
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Originally Posted by StacyL
Speaking of solids, I did the usual gerber purees of fruit and veggies and then my own mashed foods with ds#1 starting at around 7 mos. However, this time with Gabriel I am trying something different, and it was inspired after reading this page:
Self-Feeding Solids So, I have been doing this for a week now, and I have to say it is awesome. He has had a yam, broccoli, bananas, and bread so far. Of course, very little is actually eaten, but it is so much fun to watch him having so much fun. Spoon-feeding my first child was not "fun" for him, like this is for Gabriel. And I like the thought of the saved expense of never having to buy any pureed baby food, nor the "work" of making homemade pureed baby food, when it appears it may be totally unnecessary. Sweet! |
Even when I had J self feeding avocado, I still mashed it to a puree; anything bigger and he would gag. He gags if I do regular apple sauce... too thick I guess. Let's see, right now I have left fruits alone cause I think J may be allergic to something cause his chin gets all red whenever fruits touch it. So he is doing soft table foods that I can mash (veggies) and gerber veggies and some cereal. He had not been showing the greatest interest and then it totally changed. I won't do meat for a while (put it off with ds1 as well cause I refused to do canned meat cause it just grossed me out and I figured if he didn't have the teeth to do it, maybe he wasn't meant to have it anyway) And he seems to have the milk allergy so can't introduce that either... Man, this is boring for me. Quote:
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Originally Posted by mcimom
mikey is tooting whilest we speak...too much baby yogurt me thinks...one of his favorites! he also tried mahi mahi the other day - LOVED it. and dh makes homemade blueberry pancakes, i couldn't shovel it in fast enough. he's also a fan of the pretzel rod. so far he hasn't met a food he doesn't like. i love how all kids are different. my dd1 was pretty picky. sweet potatos and apples or pears. hated meat (which was fine, dh was a vegetarian so we hardly ever had it anyway). she's very unpicky now at 7yo, she'll try anything, favorite food is calamari. dd2's first food was a middle eastern dish (dh's family is middle eastern and spanish) but other than that was pretty darn picky until about 4yo. now she'll try most things, but her favorite is salad: greens, cucumbers, carrots, croutons and vinegar and lemon (seriously her salads are so sour, that i'm puckering just thinking about it) dd3 wasn't picky as a babe - loved meat of all things best, but now would be on the elf diet if she had her druthers (you know, candy, candy canes, candy corn and syrup?) favorite food at 4yo: blueberry pancakes and marshmallows |
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Originally Posted by mommitola
There's a few holiday pictures in my sig. That's "fake Christmas" where she opened gifts she received Saturday since we messed up taking pics on Christmas eve.
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) you can't even support him to change his diet/exercise if he doesn't REALLY want to. No matter what you say no matter how you say it, if he doesn't want to do it for himself, you're wasting your time. Lead by example. Get healthy, feel good, look good... he may be inspired.
, not sure if there is anything else you can do.... Trying to figure out how to get my dh to do something as well.... We shall see if it works.... 
:, I added you as a friend as well.... 
Happy New Year to you as well!
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and hope your own transformation gives him motivation to start making some changes, too.
There's a big ole long winded post about it on my blog. 
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