My daughter won't eat the baby food I made. Help!?

Question

I tried making her baby fox and she just won't eat it. I tried to give her green beans and she gagged. I tried apples and she ate a little (applesauce is her fav gerber food) but then she refused to eat anymore. I dont know how to get her to eat it. I gave her a container of gerber 2nd foods applesauce the other night since we were out and she ate it all up. She just gags at the homemade stuff. Should I just give all store bought food?

Answer 1

It might be thicker then the gerber foods, or its just not tasty, try both and make yours wither more bland or more tasty!

Answer 2

  Use store brand foods but avoid wierd diet chemicals. Certain Sugars are diet and at an early age those sugars can cause cancer fast. Cancer is nearly incurable because the body makes cancer cells too so if you get too much cancer cells from diet sugars your baby will die.

Get gerber brand food because their food is the safest and if they do something wrong with the food they give you you could get 5 million dollars in a law suit.

Answer 3

Try to change up the texture (as much as you can based on her age of course). Keep offering it to her, as it can take several times before a baby will get used to a "new" food. While you continue to offer it to her but before she actually starts to eat it (hopefully she will), have a back-up ready each time. Just keep trying...if it still is not working after a week or so, then move on to the next thing to try.

Answer 4

If she prefers store bought stick to it less work for you.. Also pureed apple is quite sweet where as beans aren't. Maybe not enough flavour in your food. Don't be scarred a small amount of seasoning for flavour; it makes food more enticing.  

Answer 5

It sounds like your baby has been eating store bought foods, and now you are trying to give her home-made is that right? I had the same problem with my son, he started on baby jars from the store, then when I tried to give him some home-made he acted as if it was poison! I actually started mixing them, a little (maybe a teaspoon or two) of home-made into the store food, slowly adding more over the space of a week or two. He now eats whatever I give him with no complaints.

A health professional also told me it could be a texture thing, that the home-made food was more textured (even though I pureed it) than the jars. Same solution as above, slowly mix in a little of the home-made into the jars. Good luck!

Answer 6

maybe she's feeling a little sick somehow? you should call your doctor and ask to see what's wrong with her by describing just what you said to him. i'm sure he has some kids right? try giving her some itty bits of rice one at a time to see if she'd enjoy that. even though this isn't really nutritional, i remember my mom used to put rice, water, and sugar, mixing it all up in a bowl and feeding it to me in a baby spoon. man i loved that stuff as a baby.

Answer 7

Are you pureeing it thin enough.  She might not like the texture.  You could add a little fruit juice to your food you make to sweeten it up just a tiny bit.