https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:29:01 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-move-towards-table-foods#post-1663355 Wed, 28 May 2014 15:45:10 +0000 jetsa 1663355@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>J eats whatever we eat and loves it all but that may bc he's a chunk. His favorite food is pizza crust </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-move-towards-table-foods#post-1663314 Wed, 28 May 2014 15:24:55 +0000 mdf106 1663314@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO is 9.5 months, no teeth, and I give him whatever I am having, cut into small pieces (the size of a cheerio or smaller), to make it hard to choke. I have avoided really hard foods such as raw vegetables and apples. Besides puffs, his favorites have been chicken with avocado and squash (not pureed). Eggs, brown and white rice, sauteed spinach, and spaghetti with meat sauce have all been successful. I have not been successful with fruit. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-move-towards-table-foods#post-1661519 Tue, 27 May 2014 21:35:28 +0000 Foodnerd81 1661519@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I offer C almost anything but her favorite right now is fruits- strawberries cut into small pieces, blueberries cut in half, watermelon chunks, ripe cantaloupe, and ripe pear. She also usually likes avocado. Pasta and meatballs are a messy hit, or tortellini wth red sauce. Small cubes of cheese are also a current favorite- usually cheddar but whatever we have she likes. Oh, and frozen veg, either peas, or "mixed vegetables" (peas, carrots, green beans and corn)- I just microwave them for less than a minute so they aren't frozen. </p> <p>And the old stand by, Cheerios, is my go to if she didn't really eat whatever else I offered.</p> <p>Eta: the others are right about the choking vs gagging. It's scary at first but it's what is supposed to happen. Just make sure she is sitting all the way upright and they just cough the food forward in ther mouths. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-move-towards-table-foods#post-1661486 Tue, 27 May 2014 21:05:42 +0000 Rockies11 1661486@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We fed her whatever we were eating each meal, and she had no teeth then! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-move-towards-table-foods#post-1661476 Tue, 27 May 2014 20:54:15 +0000 delight 1661476@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@deerylou: oooooh great ideas!</p> <p>We are at 9.5 months and slowly transitioning. She still has a lot of purees/pouches.</p> <p>What we have given her for table foods are bananas, avacado, peas, quinoa, chicken and steak, pasta with sauce, shredded cheese, toast and peanut butter and scrambled egg. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-move-towards-table-foods#post-1661433 Tue, 27 May 2014 20:20:24 +0000 regberadaisy 1661433@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Anything that's soft! they do NOT need teeth to start table foods. Their saliva works to break down foods. We started with lots of steamed and roasted vegetables. Steamed carrots, peas, broccoli, roasted sweet potatoes, etc </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-move-towards-table-foods#post-1661430 Tue, 27 May 2014 20:19:33 +0000 Smurfette 1661430@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The first ones R ate were bananas. Avocado. Rice. Noodles. Sweet potatoes. Eggs. Chicken sausage. Turkey kielbasa </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-move-towards-table-foods#post-1661427 Tue, 27 May 2014 20:17:15 +0000 Revel 1661427@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO loves protein foods so we did, and still do, a lot of scrambled eggs, chicken sausages, meatballs, braised meats, and fish. We just break them into small pieces and let her pick them up. Small pieces of cooked vegetables, frozen blueberries cut in half, bits of shredded cheese are also favorites. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-move-towards-table-foods#post-1661083 Tue, 27 May 2014 16:27:56 +0000 deerylou 1661083@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We initially attempted BLW, but our LO preferred purees or pulsed foods until about nine months. Now, at ten months, she's exclusively on table foods. Here are some of her current favorites -</p> <p>Breakfast:</p> <p>Oatmeal (Ella's Kitchen Wakey Wakey)<br /> Egg yolk<br /> Sausage or tempeh<br /> Banana pancakes<br /> Fresh fruit (berries, apple, watermelon)</p> <p>Lunch:</p> <p>Pita with hummus<br /> Cheese (mozzarella, gouda, goat)<br /> Shredded or chopped chicken, turkey, or tofu<br /> Fresh veggies (broccoli, beets, cauliflower, snap peas)</p> <p>Dinner (I'll basically give her what we're having, avoiding choking hazards):</p> <p>Pasta (with butter and garlic, or fresh squeezed tomatoes)<br /> Rice/quinoa/farro<br /> Beans (black, white, navy)<br /> Roasted/steamed veggies<br /> Flat bread pizzas (tomatoes, mozz, dried basil)<br /> Roasted chicken<br /> Rosemary potatoes</p> <p>Snacks: </p> <p>String Cheese<br /> Freeze Dried Fruit (loves raspberries)<br /> Puffs </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-move-towards-table-foods#post-1661051 Tue, 27 May 2014 16:14:16 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 1661051@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO loves rice, melon, steamed veggies (like sweet potato), pasta, quinoa. The first few times it was scary when she gagged/looked like she was choking, but she has always managed to spit out anything that she can't handle. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-move-towards-table-foods#post-1661048 Tue, 27 May 2014 16:12:04 +0000 wonderstruck 1661048@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You'd be surprised by what they manage to eat with 3 teeth! At that age some of L's favorites were pancakes, bananas (once he figured out how to stop squishing them), Gerber pasta pick-ups, cantaloupe, watermelon, and shredded chicken. But I would just give him a bit of what we were eating as he progressed and let him try it - we went through a couple of months where he would scare us by chewing a bit, trying to swallow and making this awful choking face (in reality he was just pushing the food further forward in his mouth to chew some more since it wasn't ready to be swallowed yet), then chewing some more and trying again...he figured it out pretty quickly! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-move-towards-table-foods#post-1660938 Tue, 27 May 2014 15:27:05 +0000 Anagram 1660938@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My lo loves frozen blueberries (texture is different and easier to gum than fresh), macaroni pasta with pureed veggie sauce on it, and scrambled egg. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-move-towards-table-foods#post-1660918 Tue, 27 May 2014 15:19:28 +0000 illumina 1660918@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So, LO is 8.5 months and I'm getting a bit bored of doing purees now and would like to move towards giving her some of the food we have at lunch/dinner. Her pincer grasp is pretty good and she's enthusiastic about feeding herself. I'm worried about her choking but I'm getting better and she only has 3 teeth so can't really bite well.</p> <p>I'm just not sure what kinds of things are good for this age! We have done puffs, breadsticks with hummus, toast...what else?! </p>