Likes store bought food better?

[Gage and Sophie's Mom]

Hi. I have been struggling to get Gage to eat solids. I make my own baby food, which he eats okay. However, I noticed that he CHOWS on baby food from the store (which I dont feed him unless we are traveling which is rare). Could this be possible? I dont add anything to my baby food and cook a variety. Should I just feed him store bought? I hate to do this as it is more expensive, and I can imagine it will be hard to get him to table food. He ate 13.5 oz of store bought  and usually only eats 5-6 oz of my baby food. Has anyone else been through this? Any suggestions?

[Deb_in_oz]

Liv has always preferred jars...to my home cooking. even at 14 mo she will eat a whole large jar of some Heinz dinner or a rissoto but if i offer her fresh food she will eat, but definitely less in quantity. ifit is a jar she likes she will wolf it down in minutes. when itis all fresh she takes ages (so part of me thinks it is just easier for her to chew the prepared stuff as they tend to have lots of gravy or juice in them)

i just try to balance things - i offer fresh homemade stuff most of the time, but if i cannot be bothered or she is fussing a lot at what i offer i wil open a jar. same deal when we are out - she might eat some sandwich or pasta or somethign and other times she will eat a jar. funnily enough she has always preferred fresh fruit and refused from the very beginning to eat any puree fruit tins/jars

[Kimberly®]

My DD is like that too, I think its because its softer and easier for her to eat. There isn't anything in the jared food thats not in homemade food. Like no salt, or suger. Although if you use salt, pepper, or any herbs when you make the food they may not like that.

[Lªuren]

Alice
Have you thought about mixing them both, a bit jar mixed with your home cooking 
x

[s_olano00]

DD prefers jars too. She never liked my cooking 

What I do now (she's 11 months old) is that for meats, I'll give her the jar type of food, but for veggies I steam them and she eats them all right. And if she is interested, she can get whatever I have in my dish unless its a food that might cause her an allergy.

Still, she prefers the canned baby carrots to the steamed baby carrots  .... it definetly has to do with texture.

[Gage and Sophie's Mom]

Thanks ladies. I will try combining and alternating both types and see what happens

[kriswrite]

Our doctors say that packaged baby food is much higher in water, and therefore has less sustinence. Maybe your child eats more because he's not getting as full? Just a thought.

Kristina
http://www.kristinaseleshanko.com/baby.htm

[Gage and Sophie's Mom]

You could be onto something there. Also, I think that it just slides down so easily and I wonder if it take awile to notice they are full. Anyway, Gage is devouring the food! I feel bad as he has probably been starving! He wakes in the middle of the night to feed sometimes. Now, that he is eating so much I have no idea how much formula he should be eating I dont want him to get a tummyache. Does anyone know the conversion rate between food oz and formula oz. ie., one oz of food= 1 oz of formula

[Kimberly®]

He should be having at least 24-27 oz of formula and 3 solide meals a day of about 5-8oz each.
Or at least thats the average.

I'm not 100% sure on the actual conversion rate but its in the second book. I'll look it up tomorrow and post it here

[Gage and Sophie's Mom]

karita thanks for your reply. I found the conversion rate in the second book pg 149, for anyone else needing it. Thanks again!