When did your LO start eating what you eat for dinner?

[calebs mommy]

My son is 10 months and eats all kinds of finger foods.. fruits, veggies, cheese, bread, pasta, a little bit of meat, etc.  Just curious when you all started giving your LO what you eat for dinner.  When is it okay to give them spicy stuff like tacos or chili?  Thanks so much!

[~Angie~]

With DS, he was 1 year before we gave him table food. DD was 8 months.  She transitioned to ff very quickly. With both, they ate whatever we ate, minus the extra salt and spicy spices. DS eats anything now, even spicy foods, but I still leave the really hot spices out of DD's food.

[binxyboo]

There was a similar post somewhere a while ago, in the end most people thought it safe at that age to go ahead and be adventurous. In countries where they eat a lot of spicy foods, eg India, I am sure their children eat the usual fare at that age if not before.

So, I would go ahead and try it and let us know how he enjoys it!

[Lana]

What I do with Bram is feed him his own food (baby food) and then he gets food from my plate to finish up .  When he decides that he wont let me feed him any more then I will start to give him what we are eating as ff.

[calebs mommy]

Thanks for your quick replies!  I will let you know how he does!

[MDHmommy]

Stephanie,
My DS thinks he wants whatever we're having for dinner, only to find out a lot of times that he doesn't actually like it! So I always make food for him, and pull his chair up to the table. He starts off with his own food, and then I always give him things from my plate/the serving dishes on the table too. He eats whatever he's into...Lately not so much with the meat, but that's another post.
I always keep in mind ... somewhere in Tracy's book she says "rubbish" when one mom asked about spicy food and breastfeeding...Indian women eat plenty of spicy food and their babies are breastfed - seems to me same thing applies to solids too. If it's too spicy, LO will probably spit it out, don't you think?
Not advocating chineese mustard...but a bit of seasoned chili probably won't hurt!
Kate

[calebs mommy]

I gave my son italian chicken and pasta tonight and he loved it!!!  Yea!  It has been a struggle to get him to eat meat, but I guess the seasoning helped because he just gobbled it up tonight! 

[binxyboo]

That's great to hear!

[Lana]

Well done