In an earlier post, I bemoaned the fact that Jacob, who is over one year, is not really jumping at the chance to eat finger foods. He prefers to be spoon-fed pureed food and usually spits out anything with chunks. He was progressing a bit, however, by eating jarred food with whole peas in it. Whole peas! Imagine!
Very recently, he has started to express an interest in food from my plate. And lo and behold, the child can actually chew. He will eat toast (his first successful toast experience included chocolate sprinkles - it's a Dutch thing, not just an unhealthy thing). And he will eat macaroni salad, if it's from my plate. If it's not, he will spit it out and then spit out anything to follow that has any type of chunk in it whatsoever (including the peas in his jarred food that he's been eating for awhile). Which is proof that his unwillingness to eat real solids has more to do with his mindset than any actual issues, say, chewing or swallowing chunks.
He will also eat pretzels and Crispers. And chips. Oh, and popcorn. Not exactly ideal finger foods, but I'm willing to experiment if he is. Now if only I could get him to eat cheese, or ham, or grapes, or blueberries, or veggies. Then we'd be onto something!
A Calloused Foot
13 years ago
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Oh Caz that is brilliant! kids are so different! Ollie has said a very loud "NO" to the spoon for so long now I have spent the last few months trying to think of as many different healthy finger foods as possible! Totally opposite problem to you. Sometimes I wish I could just open a jar of mush and he would eat it but any spoon near his mouth just ends up on the floor with the dogs licking it and giggles from ollie...
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