What food did you start with? Was it successful? Would you start with a different food if you had it to do over again? I've been hearing so many different suggestions and I'd love to hear your reasoning or any research that you've done.
I'll keep adding poll options as I see responses.
37 votes
GOLD / wonderful pomegranate / 28905 posts
We started with roasted butternut squash bc I make all (90%) of her food and I wanted to start with a local in season ingredient. She LOVED it!
pomegranate / 3008 posts
We started with rice cereal mixed with breastmilk. We used the Earth's Best with apples rice cereal.
pineapple / 12526 posts
We started with applesauce. She ate it and liked it and it was fine. We got a lot of her baby food for free, so I never made any of hers.
pomelo / 5524 posts
We started with rice cereal mixed with formula. His first "real" food was squash!
squash / 13764 posts
We did sweet potato and it was fine! He was kind of like " what is this stuff?" But he ate it. We did oatmeal next ad e loooved it. Honestly tho we quickly went to trying multiple foods so I don't think the first foo is actually that important...
pomelo / 5628 posts
@hilsy85: Yeah that makes sense that the exact food doesn't really matter. I guess I"m more curious about cereal v. meat v. fruits and veggies.
GOLD / wonderful pomegranate / 28905 posts
@Mrs Green Grass: I think fruits vs veggies are about the same. Though some say veggies bc fruits are "sweeter". But meats aren't recommended (necessary) till after 9 months which coincides nicely with when their iron stores start to deplete.
pomegranate / 3858 posts
We're starting with a whole grain rice cereal this weekend, but will start adding avocado and some other puréed shortly after. Just want to see how she does with a spoon first and make sure she starts getting the iron that she needs to start off with.
bananas / 9357 posts
We did roasted sticks of sweet potato. It was all very anti-climatic. He took a couple bites and spit it all out. I heard sweet food was a good first food for breastfed babies since BM is sweet so that's why I went with sweet potato. I also read meat is a good first food for the iron in it. And I've heard baby cereal is just empty calories with not much nutritional content so we skipped cereal all together.
pomegranate / 3858 posts
@regberadaisy: our Canadian guidelines now say to start with cereal, but introduce meat and meat alternatives in conjunction...there are so many conflicting guidelines out there, it's hard to know what to do!
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
Technically green beans. DH fed them to him before I could protest. If I could do it over I'd have started with avocado or butternut squash (or sweet potato).
GOLD / wonderful pomegranate / 28905 posts
@tinyperson: haha what is "meat alternatives"? I know a lot of peds in the US still reco starting with rice cereal!
pear / 1992 posts
I voted for sweet potato but it was actually a combination of brown rice cereal, sweet potato puree and breastmilk.
pomegranate / 3858 posts
@regberadaisy: beans, lentils, tofu, etc. I guess nuts are out. I'm scared to think of the gas that would come with beans though! I don't think we're going to start her on any of that for a while yet...blended meat...mmmmm.
GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts
We did a couple of tiny pieces of avocado weeks ago, but started on cereal with formula for breakfast everyday a few weeks later.
grapefruit / 4278 posts
We did cereal mixed with breastmilk as his first food, but had moved on to sweet potatoes and bananas by the end of the week.
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
Started w/ rice cereal mixed with breastmilk and he liked it. He loved/loves solids.
coconut / 8681 posts
We started with carrot purée. He loved it! He's loved anything we've fed him though lol. We skipped rice cereal just because it seemed pointless.
kiwi / 551 posts
We did rice cereal with BM and then started adding purees to it. It wasn't a bad experience, but I wouldn't necessarily do it with the next one. I didn't have a set plan for solids when we first introduced them and once his nanny started, she made all of his purees.
After seeing the cost savings of making his food vs buying jars or pouches, I will probably go down the homemade road next time from the start.
Avocado, carrots, sweet potatoes, peas (all pureed) were early hits in our house.
pineapple / 12053 posts
we haven't started yet, but i have a feeling we'll start with avocado. seems appropriate for our so cal baby. 
pomelo / 5789 posts
We started with puréed prunes and pears since he has constipation issues. We've since added fruits and veggies. Skipped cereals but might add in some oatmeal.
GOLD / squash / 13576 posts
We started with oatmeal and mashed bananas w/ breast milk mixed in.
pomelo / 5628 posts
I'm thinking avocado...do babies really like it? So many adults don't.
nectarine / 2217 posts
we began with:
banana, carrot, and sweet potato.
soon after we did pear, prunes, and avocado
honeydew / 7687 posts
@tinyperson: we haven't had any gas issues with beans!
We did avocado and are letting him feed himself. He was casually interested and has reActed similarly to everything else we've tried. My goal as to make food fun and encourage him to feed himself and be in control so I think we've been successful even if he's not actually swallowing much!
nectarine / 2504 posts
We started with avocados and he hated it! He much preferred bananas.
grapefruit / 4823 posts
We started with rice cereal with formula. Not sure yet if we'll start with rice cereal again when #2 gets here
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