First veggie/fruit

[mdm2137]

We started with banana. I reacted badly to salicylates as a baby, so I want to wait a bit with avocado.

[Mellymel]

I about going to be solid feeding soon too. And I think i'm going to start with avocado

[sharper75]

We started with avocado - she loves it! You can mix it with tons of stuff.

[bamababies]

We started my DS on solids this past week. We offered him bananas the first half of the week and then avocado the second half. He loved both. Avocado is a great first food. It is rich in iron and easy to digest. I started my oldest DD on squash and started DD2 on banana. We skipped the whole rice cereal thing with all our kids. As for not giving them a fruit first due to it being sweet...breast milk has a sweet taste. So in my opinion they have already experienced the sweet taste. DS is going to try butternut squash tomorrow. YUM!

[evlu]

With ds, we started with mashed banana, then green beans and steamed carrots. Dd will be starting solids in the next month or two, and we'll probably start with avocado.

[thrilled2012]

My DS is almost 7 months. He is EBF and I tried to start solids at 6 months with avocado. I was trying to stay away from sweet fruits and veggies so that he won't prefer the taste of sweet/sugar. I tried peas, avocado, green beans, etc. No luck. He now will only eat sweet potatoes, butternut squash and bananas. I make my own purees. Here's to hoping his taste buds will be more open to other flavors soon I think he is used to sweet breastmilk and just likes foods that have that sweetness.

[painter412]

sweet potatoes, homemade, was our first foods... for all our kids.

[nw2bargaining]

Pears bananas and apple. I want to try avocados! Shes only 4 months and the doc recommended we introduce fruits and cereal. I think it maybe too much for her though

[Treylen]

After rice cereal, I started both my boys with peas. DS2 just tried them for the first time last night--so cute. DS1 is 6 and eats just about every veggie (except avocado, though he loved it as a baby). I think continuing variety in foods you offer and limiting empty calories is key as they get older. I don't buy suggestions that if you start with a sweet, they'll forever reject savory baby foods. I just wouldn't only offer sweet foods.

[abbazabba]

We did homemade carrots first and then sweet potatoes. She loved them both. She loves avocados as well.