When will my 10 month old eat "real" table food?

Question

He has his top and bottom teeth, and LOVES to eat cheerios and the gerber puffs & dried fruit pieces. But when I give him some table food, like a noodle or some mashed potatoes, he refuses to eat it. He spits it out, or will just smush in on the tray. Are there any suggestions for what to give him that he might actually eat?

He's even at the point where he spits out the baby food. So it makes me think he doesn't want the mush anymore, but still only likes the puffs and stuff. Is this like a transition stage?

Answer 1

Keep trying.  It takes a while for them to get used to the new foods/textures.  :)

Answer 2

a child may reject a new food up to 10 times before they realize that they do like the taste/ texture.  Also - look at the ingredients of the foods he has been eating, and then look at the ingredients of the foods you are offering.  Most "normal" Gerber foods have at least 1 sugar listed within the top 5 ingredients, dried fruit is also very sweet; however noodles and mashed potatoes are not.  He is accepting the very sweet foods while he is rejecting the table foods that are not sweet.  It may be a process of weaning him off the sugar filled foods to get him to accept the more adult tastes.  Please don't hear that I am saying you are wrong to give your child foods with sugar (it is nearly impossible to eat food from a grocery store without eating sugar, have you read the ingredients list on bread?) I am just pointing out that it might be part of the problem.  

Answer 3

try cutting up a banana, watermelon, cantelope and just put it on his tray...they are sweet so he might start to get interested.  try steamed carrot rounds, peas, corn and just put little piles around at dinner and eventually a few will get in his little mouth.  The hungrier he is, the more he will eat so try not feeding him the gerber puffs after 3pm so he's hungry at dinner.  I am sure this is a phase...before you know it EVERYTHING will be going in his mouth!

Answer 4

When he gets hungry.

Answer 5

make him sit next to you when you are having diner. this will increase his curiousity to try different foods.