[heidilynne]

DS looovvves them, but i know they're filled with sugar and not nutritious - and small pieces of veggies and fruit are too slippery for him to pick up. Anybody have a good alternative?

 

[mothragirl]

put wheat germ or crushed cereal on the veggie pieces so they aren't slippery.

 

[pampered_mom]

What about the JustTomatoes line of dehydrated fruit/veggie pieces (www.justtomatoes.com)? My ds always loved them...

 

[heidilynne]

great ideas - thanks!

 

[spughy]

I just found a product on a trip to the US called "Super Veggie Tings" by Robert's Gourmet. No sugar, just cornmeal, vegetable oil, veggies, baking soda, and salt (but they are not very salty at all compared to potato chips or cheese puffs). My DD loves them.

 

[gr33nie]

yesterday I started giving my 10 month old kidney beans w/the skin taken off and pulled apart into about three differnt pieces. I also coat the veggies/fruit with crushed up "organic morning o's".

 

[Grace and Granola]

Robert's also makes a great treat calle "Veggie Booty." It can be found in health food stores in the chips section. I think they are like cheese puffs, but instead of coated in cheese powder, they are coated in vegetable powder. We used these to introduce ds to picking up foods and handling them in his mouth. They are still his favorite treat!

 

[cyndimo]

DS has never had Gerber's puffs but loves the following:
Organic Corn Puffs (only ingredient is puffed corn)
Organic Rice Puffs (only ingredient is puffed rice)
Veggie Bootie
Organic Morning O's (organic cherios by whole foods)
Healthy Times bears
Vegetable Sticks (these seem to be basically potato chips in a different form, with spinach and tomato flavors mixed in... I try to limit these, but DP loves them!)

Dehydrated fruit bits (I just tried the Gerber organic ones and do really like them... I'm going to try to find other brands now.)
HTH!

 

[StrawberryFields]

I use puffed rice and puffed kamut.

 

[millionmom]

I didn't htink dehydrated things were good for babies, but I could be remembering that wrong!
I use wheat-free (and taste free) o's (the bagged organic o's, and puffed rice. i do use the gerber puffs, which I like because they melt really quickly, so they were nice before he would actually chew the food. I KNOW they have terrible ingredients, but I didn't give him a lot, so I'm not too worried about it.

 

[leximom]

Dd used to *love* Veggie Booty!

 

[wonderwahine]

i have some organic o's and teddy puffs, but they just dont seem to melt well, and im afraid of choking, do the rice puffs melt more?

 

[Mommy Piadosa]

Pirate's Booty!!!!

 

[millionmom]

the rice puffs dop melt better, I forgot about that! I was also scared to give ds the Os until he was a bit older.!

 

[wonderwahine]

I'll get some rice puffs next time I'm out that way then

 

[mother culture]

The best advice I an give is stick with real foods not processed foods like crakers and cereal. Feed him rice, beans, rice pasta, veggies ( he will learn to pick them up. Babies even do well with tenderized chicken cut very thin. If you give baby toddler snacks that are salty and sweet that is how the tast and preference will develop. and remember somtimes it takes 3-4 times of offering something for him to develop a liking to the taste/texture. I would say keep it simple for as long as you can and steer away from corn, wheat, sugar, and deep fried. You are the momma!

 

[~Megan~]

Quote:

Originally Posted by pamered_mom What about the JustTomatoes line of dehydrated fruit/veggie pieces (www.justtomatoes.com)? My ds always loved them...

are those melt in your mouth texture?

 

[Kavita]

DD LOVES snappea crisps--they are baked snappeas w/ a little corn oil and sea salt. They are really a melty texture, like veggie puffs. If you are giving wheat yet you can give pieces of pasta, like rotini. If you aren't giving wheat, I found some rice pasta that is basically whole grain rice and rice bran, so I will make her rice rotini and she can handle that herself. She likes Healthy Times Teddy Puffs although those are more crunchy and less melty than the Veggie Puffs. Puffed rice or rice cakes--I found that Hain has some mini-rice cake snacks that are basically smaller rice cakes, and are a lot thinner and so it's meltier than either puffed rice or a regular rice cake, although there is some salt and oil added. I agree that whole foods are better, however, sometimes you just need something to feed the baby that will occupy them while you prepare the healthy organic whole foods to follow! And something to just have with you in the diaper bag in case you stop to eat out unexpectedly and there's nothing to feed them . . . and so on!

I also give her really big chunks of fruit/veggies and then she can bite/gum off pieces she can handle. Like from 8 months on, I just hand her a whole peach and watch her closely. When she gets close to the pit, I take that out and give the rest back to her! I'll give her a half of a banana. You can also try a babysafe feeder for stuff like avocado that's hard even for an adult to pick up! Right now she's in kind of a "middle" age--she has two teeth and is more adventurous in her eating, so I make sure things are either really big so she can't stuff the whole thing in her mouth and has to take bites off of it, or small enough that if she does she won't choke. Cubes of tofu are pretty easy to pick up and chew too, if you do soy.

 

[Madame Mamms]

I don't know what Gerber Veggie Puffs are, but they sound disgusting. Eat healthy whole foods youself, and then share it with your babe as she is ready for it: squish up a few beans with your fork, let her chew on small pieces of steamed carrots, give her an apple slice to gum on. Best of all, she'll be getting everything else she needs from good ol' mother's milk.

Plus all that processed garbage costs a fortune.