Meal Time

When we first started giving Grace solid foods, we went the traditional route - rice cereal as baby's first food. She loved the different types of cereal (rice, oat, barley), all of the fruit and most of the veggie purees we gave her.

She has been eating some finger foods as snacks for a while now, like Nutrios and puffed wheat. A few weeks ago we tried giving her chunkier purees and some mashed foods. She was not interested. She really enjoys feeding herself so we've been gradually giving her more and more finger foods. We still give her pureed fruit mixed with cereal for breakfast, but she feeds herself at lunch and supper. Some of her current favorites include cheese, toast and any chunks of fruit that she can feed herself.

I love that we're getting to the point where she eats what we eat. Today the three of us had spaghetti with meat sauce and garlic bread for supper! Grace really enjoyed the spaghetti and I gave her a crust of the garlic bread, which she gnawed on for a while, smiling away.