First Foods

DD started on mashed ripe pears and they are her fav food to this day! One thing she totally loved was mashed bananas and avocado mixed--but you would want to introduce them separately then together. We haven't decided what to start DS with yet--holding off until he has his first tooth

Bananas, avocados, and sweet potatoes were big hit here too. When they get to the finger-food stage (the child, that is! ) you can cut these foods into cubes and then roll them in wheat germ to make them easier to pick up.

I don't know what kind of infant cereal WIC supplies, but I used "super porridge" as one of DS's first foods. It's a concept from Ruth Yaron's book _Super Baby Food_ (which there are a lot of threads on in this forum, so you can search under that for more info) and is highly nutritious and very adaptable -- you can add all kinds of things to it, or keep it plain and simple. DS loves his every morning -- some days it's the only thing he reliably eats. . PM me if you'd like my specific concoction, or check out the book. With some caveats, it's a good one.

HTH.
~nick

My dd, now 5 months old, has just begun solids in the last couple weeks. She's had sweet potatoes the first two times, and this time she had carrots and bananas, combined. (I know about the separating food thing, but...)

Anyway, my ds, when he started solids we started him with the rice cereal we got from WIC. Made him sick. We stopped rice cereal- and my dd won't be having any either- at least not the Gerber stuff. Eventually I will make her some rice cereal- but for now, I'd rather her first tastes be veggies, not starches. Kwim? I'm not a carb-a-phobe, I just want to stress veggies in my kids.