Baby Food Question?

Question

My son (12 months) is just starting to eat solid foods, what are some good things to feed him for dinner besides hotdogs and chicken nuggets?

Answer 1

i cant believe you give your son hotdog.not saying its bad but there are lotta good foods for kids.
get chicken or meat,carrot,grinned or dried parsely ,potato salt and a bit lemon juice it so yummy and serve with white rice.my daughter still loves it.if its hard for him to chew,put it in mixer and give it to him.
don't give him ready meal.fish is so good for him.
fry it yourself or put it in microwave.i get fish from Costco and cook it myself.you never know what is in ready made foods are.even though they say they are healthy,
give him egg,boiled eggs are so good for kids add a little butter and it will taste great.make honey and butter sandwich for him he will love it.he has lots of time in future to eat out and get fat.cook him yourself.
good luck

Answer 2

My son is 11 months old and we are just now getting to where he will eat "adult food." Here are the foods that he has eaten so far:

grilled cheese
spaghetti cut up into small pieces with sauce
any of the Gerber graduate meals
shredded chicken
mashed potatoes
cut up pears,apples,bananas,strawberries

I would steer clear of giving your son just hotdogs and chicken nuggets because he'll get used to that if you don't give him a variety. Besides fried stuff is not healthy..........start good eating habits now! Good luck, this is a big milestone, or at least I feel like it is.

Answer 3

lol...well personally...I would steer clear of the hotdogs and chicken nuggets to begin with...

My mother runs a company the manufactures hotdogs....Uh..ya, lets just say my son will never EVER eat that crap...they're soooo loaded with stuff you don't even want to know about.

Other than that...any cubed up food, Steamed carrots, cooked chicken or ham or beef, broccoli...

Pretty much anything you eat only not spiced (or very very very mildly so) and well cooked and cut up small...and then just make sure you supervise.

Good Luck

Answer 4

Offer all foods. Of course use your common sense and try to avoind sugary or really salty foods and carbonated sugary drinks like soda and koolaid. Also gear away from lot sof frozen foods that contain preservatives and too much salt. Stouffer's frozen foods contain no preservatives so I give my son the mac and cheese, he loves it.

But the best thing to do is offer everything and anything you yourself would eat especially veggies and fruits so that he becomes used to a good broad, healthy diet.

Cut everything up into tiny pieces and make sure everything is cooked thoroughly.

Answer 5

My roommates 12 month old eats everything we do. Pasta, chicken, hamburger for iron, veggies, Gogurts. This child is a never ending pit. As long as he has no food allergies the list is endless as long as the pieces are small enough he can chew without to much effort.

Answer 6

Hi, my son used to love cooked carrot sticks and parsnip sticks, i cooked them so they were soft but not so soft the fell apart and i let him dip them into bean dip or hummouse!

also pasta is great, with cheese sauce or tomatoe sauce, you can also just blend a load of veg and use it as a pasta sauce!

rice is good with chicken or ham and chick peas,

also my son loves cous cous - i do it with corn, tomatoes and ham!

salmon is also good because it's soft and very healthy!

you can make some home made pizza's or chicken nuggets (that way you can use chicken breast and bread crumbs - not the c**p they put in the frozen ones!)

jacket potatoe is also great, i give my son half a j/pot and he has it with either tuna, cheese or

scrambled egg on toast!
dippy egg with soldiers!
tomatoe soup (but add milk so it's not too rich!)

hope some of these help! good luck!

Answer 7

Our son eats whatever we are having for dinner

- baked chicken breast or beef
- fresh steamed vegetables
- pasta, rice, mashed/baked potatos

We try to avoid anything breaded/fried or prepackaged. There are just too many preservatives!!

When he was first learning to eat solids, we just ran dinner through the food processor/blender until it was a consistency he was capable of chewing :)

Answer 8

As long as you can cut it up small enough he should be able to eat it. This is a good time to introduce fruits and veggies to him. They are more willing to try new things at this age. Remember if he won't eat certain veggies cooked he make eat the same ones raw. This is an excellent time to instill healthy eating habits in your son.

Answer 9

Pretty much anything you normally eat, as long as you eat healthily.

My son eats everything off my plate, so for dinner it's some sort of meat (pork chops, or baked chicken usually, fish once in awhile), noodles/rice/potato, and lots of veggies.

Answer 10

If you have a steamer - i would steam small chucks of veggies like broccoli, sweet potato, carrots, green beans, etc.
There is a good book called the super baby food book that tells you how to make all kind of kid food.

Answer 11

Some of the first foods my daughter ate, especially cuz she was late in getting her teeth, were boiled carrots (used the frozen sliced ones and cut them up small), the frozen cooked winter squash, heated up, bananas, scrambled eggs, and mashed potatoes.