Help for homemade baby food?
My baby has been eating stage 1 Beechnut baby food for a few weeks and loves banana. I decided to make her baby food at home and I took a ripe banana and mashed it until it was very smooth. I added a little formula and some rice cereal to it. Very smooth texture. Well, she just cried and refused to eat it. I don’t understand because she loves the bananas from the jar. I kept trying to work with her to eat it and when she would get it in her mouth she just cried horribly. So I decided to open a jar of banana and she ate that just fine. Any ideas why this may be?
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5 comments a "Help for homemade baby food?"
I’m not sure. Maybe because it was mixed with the cereal and formula and it tasted a bit funky too her. Whenever I have done bananas (homemade) I take them and mush them up real well then add a smidge of water and put it in the blender to make a smooth texture. Now that baby is older I just mush them up and let her self feed. Just keep trying with her to the way you want to do things homemade or beechnut.
you do a taste test….there is a difference in taste….your baby prefers the jar stuff because you gave it first….but if you want to wean her off mix some of the real stuff with the jar and eventually reduce the jar stuff till you get only the real stuff…
Stick with the jar food.The other stuff sounds gross!
I think it had to do with the formula.. it may have tasted funny. Also, mashing your own bananas at home gives a somewhat more slimy texture than the jarred. My son had mashed bananas for the first time on Saturday.. it seemed like he liked the taste but he didn’t seem to enjoy the texture. Try putting the banana in a blender with water and rice cereal, without formula and see what happens. Best Wishes.
Try just banana with no added formula or cereal. If you spend enough time mashing it or puree it, it really doesn’t need any additives. A tiny bit of water if it’s still too thick. Look at the label on the jarred food – there shouldn’t be anything listed but banana and water. Also the jarred bananas have basically been cooked because they have to heat the jars and what’s inside them to a very high temperature to seal them. That can change the flavour and texture dramatically as well. My son has gotten very few jars of baby food overall and now refuses to eat jarred carrots and loves his homemade ones, a lot has to do with what they are used to.
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