I could spend hours in the baby food aisle at the grocery store.
Actually, at my grocery store, the baby stuff is divided into two half-aisles, so I'm talking about just one of those.
How do I know what to buy my munchkin? Should I get Stage Two foods? Stage Three? Stuff for toddlers?
Should I still be getting him some fruits and veggies in strained form even though he can each mushed-up or small pieces of the real deals?
How about those handy yogurt roll-ups for crawlers? Are they nutritious? Is it even possible to dry up yogurt and keep it nutritious?
I feel like I've skipped massively important steps in Noah's switch to solid foods because he'll eat anything. Any size, any texture, any color, ANYthing.
I'm even feeding him stuff now that Sam wouldn't deign to chew until she was at least 18 months old.
Now, granted, Sam would eat nothing that wasn't of pudding consistency. She shunned meats, she worked bits that required even the most minimal chewing to the front of her mouth and spit them out, and she flat-out refused to eat most of the Stage Three stuff. She took to solid food so poorly that we almost had to have an eating study done to determine what her darned problem was.
(And people wonder why I'm pleased she eats, like, 12 or 15 different things now.)
How do you pick stuff out in that aisle? I might just start closing my eyes, spinning around three times, then walking forward with my index finger out and buying what I hit. Because I feel like I need to be getting him some just-for-baby stuff to ensure he's getting all the nutrients he needs.
Could he be just fine on all table food -- with about 10-20 ounces of iron-fortified formula per day -- by 10 months?
Ideas? Advice? Recipes for baby protein shakes?
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