What was your babies' first junk food?

Question

Be honest, ladies. I know (or, I hope) that I am not the only one guilty of giving my son little tastes of less-than-nutritious "fun foods" here and there.

This past weekend, we had family and friends in from out of town. We did a lot of sight seeing, which involved a lot of stops at pizza joints and ice cream stands. I brought healthy snacks for my baby, but I just couldn't resist giving him his first orange sherbert popsicle while he sat naked on the beach. He later got down on a few curly fries- that was fun to watch!

So what was your babies first junk, what was the occasion, and how much did they love it?

Answer 1

Oh Betwixt I must be itching for thumbs down to even touch this question...

His first junk food was a taste of bbq pulled pork. His most recent was a l**k of Mommy's ice cream cone (chocolate/vanilla twist) this past weekend. He really seemed indifferent about both.

Daddy was sure that we would be spending the evening in the ER, but baby apparently had no reaction and went right back to eating peas and pastina for super. So I haven't ruined him (yet).

Edit: He he...we're originally from Buffalo where pulled pork is a food group. I'm probably lucky that one of my crazy family members hasn't fed him chicken wings yet. :-)

Answer 2

I believe it was a bag of fries from mcdonalds when he was about 18 months and he hated them! till does in fact

Answer 3

Ava's first junk food would have to have been ice cream. She was rather young, I say she was about 6 months. I was eating ice cream and well, she wanted it, so I dipped her pacifier in my ice cream and she loved it! She didn't have much, but it was her first junk food.

Answer 4

I started ruining my second child sooner than my 1st (lol), he's 6 months old and had his first on Saturday night at nana and papa's, it was a little taste of banana pudding.  He wanted more but I told him he had to wait a few months, lol.

Answer 5

I'd have to say french fries. He loves those. I also came home from work one day to find him and my husband chomping down on some Cheetos and popcorn. My husband tries to sneak and give him stuff but I always catch him.  

Answer 6

I believe Tyler's first junk food was cheese doodles given by my MIL. Then french fries came next, again by my MIL (she watched him while we worked). Boy was I mad. I never wanted my child to be a junk food eater. But now that he struggles with underweight issues & pickiness, I WISH he would eat more of it.

Now Riley has had a small bite of a Lofthouse cookie and Tyler will sometimes share his popsicles with him. That's about it though. He's becoming a butterball on his own so I don't think he needs the junk!!

Answer 7

I am bad at this, My daughter always gives me such cute little looks and stares at me as I eat and she opens her mouth when I go to put a bite in my mouth, so I give in a lot and put some on my finger and give it to her. Nothing has hurt her so far. She is 5 1/2 months and I give her tastes of my food all the time. She loves it and her doctor told me giving her tastes of it most likely isn't going to hurt her. And the way her face lights up when I go to put my finger in her mouth is so cute. She grabs my finger and shoves it in her mouth.  

Answer 8

A McDonald's french fry.... for both of them.  French fries are the only thing I'll eat from McDonalds (and I love them dearly!!!).  Ok, that's a lie.  I'll eat the Apple Pie, too.

Anyway, they both LOVE McDonalds french fries...so much so that the oldest one calls french fries "magdonals".

Answer 9

Oh how could you?  Only hay and water for my boy.

He's only 7 months now, but will be visiting Nana when he will be 10 moths old, so I think I'll give her the pleasure.

Answer 10

A sugar free chocolate Popsicle.  And oh my goodness did he love it.  He was teething, I thought it would help his pain, so why not?!?!  LOL  

Now, Grandma gives him ice cream, Grandpa gives him cookies... Whatever he wants, he gets.  He's going to be spoiled rotten.

Answer 11

i think his first was a bit of sherbert. he LOVED it!

most recent was a l**k of a dorito chip which he also loved!

he is such a good eater though, he will eat anything i put in front of him, all his veggies and such so i'm not afraid to give him a little treat now and then.

Answer 12

a think it was a bite of chocolate ice cream. he loooved it.

ellie- pulled pork? that is freakin hilarious. i mean, we always joke about giving my son steak to chomp on. maybe we should give it a try. haha.thanks for the laugh and keep up the good work.

Answer 13

a McGriddle from McDonald's..and he loved and still does love it...and I believe the thing after that was bbq pulled pork and baked beans...and he LOVES his bbq still...

You know his first potato chip was 4th of July and he was about 15 1/2 months old..and loved it...doesn't get them often but a few here and there won't kill him...

I believe he has went to McDonald's all of about 6 or 7 times in the last 10 months..

We started a new tradition in our house..and will stop when he wants too..We are going to take the bday kiddo out to breakfast in their jammies..and well since McDonald's was 5 minutes from the house on his 1st bday we went there and he was in his cars jammies...

Answer 14

most likely pizza and fries! and he still loves them! but i could be wrong, hes got a brother and sister who like to sneak junk food, so im sure he got one of those snacks too!  

Answer 15

My baby's first junk food was a couple of fries when he was about 8 months old.  We had gone out to eat at the local burger joint after we went to the Christmas craft fair.  After that the next big junk food moment was when he was 10 months old.  We had a DQ ice cream cake for my hubby's birthday and let him try some.  If Kraft Mac and Cheese counts as junk food, he had some of that before he was really eating solids, at about 6 months old.

Answer 16

i have 3 kids my oldest when she was 13 months i think she had some chocalate ice cream just a few licks and my middle child had his birthday cake when he was one and lets but it this way it was ahrd to not give hom cuz he loved so much.  anna my youngest had jello and hated it lol she loves it now but shes 4  

Answer 17

I gave my 3 month old a little taste of whipped cream and he LOVED IT.  Only alittle taste though.

ellie04-

haha I live 1 hour and a half away from Buffalo

Answer 18

Well considering how extremely unhealthy and overweight his grandparents are,  theres no telling. I try to keep him as healthy as I can because I just know they aren't.

I do sneak him a bite of a french fry every now and then. But thats pretty much it.

Answer 19

Ummmm.... well I'm kinda a bit crazy about what my baby is and isn't allowed to eat. Usually its all organic, not processed and fresh.....but he has had a taste here and there!!

at a b-day party I've let him have a small little taste, and my granny was holding him and not paying attention at all. and he helped himself to the chip bowl. I caught him eating a chip and he had cheese crumbs on his fingers and around his mouth!

But I do make Popsicles  for him and muffins and cookies he isn't 'deprived of "good" (processed junk) food' as some (the in laws) assume!

Answer 20

My daughter is not a sweet freak but instead would cry for a bag of Fries or pickles off a McDonalds hamburger. She also has been given Cheetos by my SIL at there house and now is a Cheeto gobbler if she sees them.

Though its a rare rare treat since my husband is from India we are pretty healthy eaters. Its only when we are out of town or on a SUPER Rare occasion we go to Mc Donalds. Or if shes getting babysat by someone

Answer 21

i have tried so many times to feed ruby ice cream -- she doesn't like it! it kills me. in my house, ice cream was never considered a junk food. more of a food group.

i give ruby lots of natural snack foods; pirates booty, veggie booty, organic mini cheese crackers. do those count? the booties are her favorite things, for sure. if she is not eating enough, i do know that i can always fall back on those to at least get some calories in her skinny body. she also eats all natural sweet potato fries pretty regularly. i am NOT NOT NOT criticizing anyone else, this is my own issue, but i will never feed her fast food. i will not forbid her from making any choice she wants once she is able to when it comes to food, but no meat, fast food, trans fats, or chemically-made food (formula was hard enough to deal with) will ever be fed to her from my hands.

she has had pizza joint pizza -- but we live in a city full of crazy healthy places, so the pizza has been pretty decent. i think. if she ever warms up to ice cream, all bets are off.

edit: HA. i know -- we were laughing yesterday about how we call the stuff "booty," and how ruby will go to preschool and be all, "want some of my booty?" anyway -- pirate's booty and veggie booty are snack foods made by "robert's american gourmet" a natural food company. both are puffs of corn mean, rice, and soy flour. pirate's booty is dusted with cheddar cheese, and veggie booty is dusted with powdered kale, spinach, carrot, and i think another veggie. HUGE hits with most kids, both of them.

for the record, i'm the one swigging the bottle of rum. KIDDING! it's vodka.

Answer 22

Reese cups, apple sauce