What am I doing wrong? DS has decided he doesn't like veg already!

[flowerybeanbag]

DS is 6 months, we are doing BLW. Started him on batons of veg, steamed enough that he can chew but not so much that they are mush, no problem. We've tried carrot, sweet potato, asparagus, beans, parsnip, broccoli. He's had a bit of most of it, lots of playing with it, waving it about, chucking it at the dog .

Not an awful lot gets eaten though. Which I wasn't too concerned about - he has loads of formula still and is doing fine. Only thing is, when I offer him little rice cakes from a packet, or those carrot stick things that are like huge wotsits, he hoovers them up - he had 4 carrot thingys today.

Should I be worried that DS appears to prefer snack food rather than vegetables already...??

no
think of the textural difference between puffy rice cakes/ organix puffs, whihc melt in your mouth, and veg that needs chewing

chill!

They ARE snack foods, and as such designed to make kids want to hoover them down.

6 months is nothing though, don't worry. Just keep offering a wide range of food. I wouldn't give those extruded carrot thingies though, personally, just because their palettes are developing at this age and they taste rank, you don't know how it could end up.

The baby organix range in particular does piss me off. I mean, it is just baby junk food for middle class mummies, isn't it? Sweetened with apple juice and so forth-its still bloody SUGAR. It sends my kids as loopy as Smarties, tbh. A

apple juice isn't the same as sugar though. it may still be bad for your teeth, but it doesn't metabolise quite as quickly (I don't think) and has a couple of vitamins.

But back to the op: no, it's early days yet. But if you're worried about him eating the big wotsits, then the answer is not to give them to him!

Thanks!

Will try and chill a bit. I wasn't hugely worried about the wotsits as such, but worried that he was hoovering them up and not my lovingly prepared veg. I may hold back on them for the moment and stick with the veg and not worry that he's not eating that much.
(I think the wotsits are nice though)

also, being mostly air, those wotsits have about 2 calories each - much less than the equivalent size-wise of carrot. they're a bit misleading.

Apparently, children can be offered foods up to 16 times and refuse it every time, and then on the 17th time they decide they do like it. I'm not sure how they come up with those numbers exactly, but it made me think that there's probably no food in the world that dd has refused more than a few times so far, so I don't really know yet if there are any tastes she genuinely doesn't like. After the 3rd or 4th time I leave it and go back to it in a couple of months. She's 18 months and has a pretty varied diet.

lol. It is GOOD that you like the wotsits, you will have many years of eating his lunchbox leftovers. Me I think they taste like halitosis but hey...

(I should say here my own kids eat way too much of the baby organix crap. IMO once apple juice has been concentrate, diluted, heated to 450 C (or whatever) and then stored in a celophane bag for about 6 months, its nutritional value is pretty negligible. But I don't think babies actually die instantly if they have a bit of not-perfect food now and again-and I am a hardcore lentil weaver and food fascist. And they are nowhere near actual wotsits on the crapness scale, they don't have all that salt in them for one thing. They are FINE on occasion (eg if youa are tired and can't be ar$ed to steam veg). What pisses me off is the marketing of these things as some sort of health food. I do know of some people who will give baby organix snacks in place of (non-organic) fresh fruit, and it is that line of thinking that is, IMO, just nuts.)

oh and I don't think my kids ate veg especially at 6 months. I don't think they ate much of ANYTHING, I think they probably prefered rice cakes.

They both eat veg fine now (they are 2 and 4)

The key is just to keep offering it IMO.

mine (10m) doesn't like veg OR organix wotsits. he will happily eat bread, toast, bagels, muffins, scones, pancakes, shredded wheat.... do you see a pattern here? thank goodness we haven't got wheat allergies in the family...

He sounds totally normal. Food is for playing with and smearing round your hair at that age. I used to bung an assortment of stuff on the tray and let them get on with it. But at 6 months they were only just weaned and getting first tastets of mashed stuff. I'm suprised he can chew at 6 months old.
But playing with it is good fun and that stage goes on for ages. Mine would squeeze food between their fingers. yuck, then smear it into ears/faces/hair etc.

I feel better, thank you all