have you ever pureed pasta?

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Trying to get my dd to eat more carbs - she spits out almost all her food once she's chewed it. Have you ever tried pureeing normal cooked pasta with a sauce? the very thought of it makes me gag but I'll do it if it works, ie yr dc ate it.

My ds hated it. it went like gloop.
I take it pastini gets regected too?

'Tis minging.

How old is she? From when my DD was about 7 months I over-cooked normal pasta and chopped it up really, really finely.

I think by 9 months she was sucking up spaghetti like a pro!

have you tried giving it to her whole? does she have all her food pureed? your other thread says she's 15 months old?

It doesn't work very well. You can either chop it up tiny (with spaghetti I think it's easier to put it in a sandwich bag wtih a rolling pin before cooking) or you can buy baby pasta (tiny pasta shapes).

Don't! It'll be like wallpaper paste!
Dd hated small "baby" pasta, but loved to slurp spaghetti and other long pasta.

Gawd I pureed everything with the third.. normal meals asap just whizzed up.

I pureed beans on toast once -- pasta is definitely worth a go imo.

But how old is she? Maybe foods that take more chewing are what she's after more than gloop.

15 months? No don't puree it. Make it more interesting not more boring.. the sucking spaghetti sounds great.

Is she in a high chair? Can I also suggest at that age pushing the high chair away from the table and leaving her to it herself. The reason for pushing is just to get the mess three feet away from you. If she can do more herself it might help her enthusiasm. Not even bother with plate, maybe a spoon or fork, and take all her clothes off if it's not too cold, and let her do it. It might be nerve wracking at first watching every morsel but it worked with my dd.

Sorry not what you asked for. Rambling.

She will chew pasta but she doesn't swallow it. So it goes in, gets chewed a couple of times, and then spat out. I'm a bit bored of tidying it up but its the only carb she actually likes. I might try pastina again tonight just to see what happens, but she seems to particularly hate "bitty" food. She sticks her tongue right out so the bits fall off and then gives me her best "why on EARTH would you put something that gross into my mouth? How very dare you!"

Is it calories you are worried about? What about fatty foods like cheese and cream, can she have more of those? Doesn't she like cheesy potato

I love that face. I usually get it if I offer DD (22months) anything green that isn't peas or pesto. It's as if she's thinking,
'Mummy, what ON EARTH are you thinking?'.

I just blend it on the lowest setting, so its more like finely chopped. If you REALLY puree it, it goes very starchy.
I'm with peacocks though, my DC2 (8mo) gets everything blitzed with the blender - sunday roast dinner, spag bol .....

found lasagne worked the best

She actually ate some pastina last night and even swallowed a little bit so I'll persevere with that. thanks for posting, glad I don't have to cook up any wallpaper paste for her now!