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[noodleskooze]

How do you get veggies into your mostly toothless kid?

Leo has two bottom teeth and two and a half top teeth, so he's not great with chewing obviously.

We mostly do frozen peas and carrots (microwaved til soft). What else? Just steam or bake everything until it's really soft?

[catbus]

Yeah, we'd steam or roast to a very tender stage. Broccoli and asparagus were hits in the toothless stage.

[hocus2]

Cook until soft and offer away. Most cooked veggies don't require teeth. I think squash is great (with butter) and most kids love it. I'd also offer string beans.

[rex]

i steam veggies. for broccoli i just give her the tops though.

[Velar Fricative]

Lots of steaming - broccoli, carrots, peas, carrots, green beans, squash, sweet potato, you name it. I also just nuke frozen veggies. I love all the cut-up frozen veggies I can get at the grocery store; just heat 'em up, no extra cutting needed!

[DarcyLongfellow]

Teeth aren't really necessary for chewing at all -- I'm sure he can eat a lot more than you think!

DD2 likes any veggie I've ever given her. I often roast them in the oven with a little olive oil -- I do squash, zucchini, and bell peppers that way all the time. She eats frozen peas and broccoli that I just steam in the microwave. I give her shredded carrots a lot. She also is suddenly very into salad LOL.

I usually just give her whatever vegetable I'm fixing for dinner for the adults. Sadly, it's my almost 5 year old who only eats about 3 veggies.

[noodleskooze]

ALSO

He will not eat veggies if he sees other things on the table, which means it's hard to have family meal time. Do we need to put a hold on eating together and let him eat first so he'll eat what he has instead of what we have? Not that we have separate meals all the time, but we do eat things I wouldn't give him.

[badtzmaru22]

Just steamed. DD was a big fan of broccoli, cauliflower and baby carrots. I would just steam from fresh, because it seemed like the frozen ones didn't get as soft. Plus they didn't have a big "handle" to hold onto.

She didn't have any teeth until 10 mo when she got her two front bottom ones. She just gummed everything. She was a year before the top two started coming in, and she was eating everything in sight by then.

[cjeanette]

I steamed them and pureed until she could knaw it to death.

[halfpint]

B loves sweet potatoes, they're super easy to cook until soft and then cube up. We do a lot of those mixed frozen veggies, they seem to be just the right size - chopped green beans, peas, cubed carrots, corn, and then just steam them up. He does well with very, very steamed baby carrots, too. Broccoli cut up.

Basically anything that can be steamed until pretty soft is fair game, and then cut into bite-size chunks.

[redheadbaker]

Jul 11, 2014 11:39:38 GMT -5 noodleskooze said:

Just steam or bake everything until it's really soft?

Yes, as well as roasting.

[osulori]

We steamed the crap out of veggies. Broccoli and sweet potato have been the biggest hits. Super ripe avocado was good too, until AJ discovered the joy of hulksmashing it in his fists.

[bunch]

My dd2 only has 4 teeth, but the veggies that she most reliably eats are still frozen mixed veggies. I guess they don't tats like veggies still frozen . I give both kids some while I'm making lunch,

[mdana]

Jul 11, 2014 12:21:21 GMT -5 noodleskooze said:

ALSO

He will not eat veggies if he sees other things on the table, which means it's hard to have family meal time. Do we need to put a hold on eating together and let him eat first so he'll eat what he has instead of what we have? Not that we have separate meals all the time, but we do eat things I wouldn't give him.

I keep a container of cooked peas in the fridge and give them to N instead of Cheerios when I need to buy some time, he eats about a handful at a time, which adds up to a good amount of veggies over the day. You could probably do the same with other diced & steamed veggies.  Would that be an option (vs. serving veggies at a meal time)?

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Jul 11, 2014 12:21:21 GMT -5 noodleskooze said:

ALSO

He will not eat veggies if he sees other things on the table, which means it's hard to have family meal time. Do we need to put a hold on eating together and let him eat first so he'll eat what he has instead of what we have? Not that we have separate meals all the time, but we do eat things I wouldn't give him.

I'd try to get your meals as close in content as possible. Your kid is going to end up eating what you eat. I will take out food before I sauce it, but otherwise, we all eat the same basic meal. Kids learn from family meal time, so I would try to stick with it if you can.