I recently posted questions about making my own baby food. Got great tips & advise & now I'm a pro! Only problem is my daughter doesnt like her carrots or squash (Great! I have a months supply sitting in the freezer!). It took her about a week to start liking her cereal when we first started feeding it to her, but its been a week of the carrots & nothing! She still spits them out & doesnt like them. Any advise? Did anyone else have a hard time getting baby to eat veggies? I tasted the carrots & their not bad. If you ask me they're not half as bad as that nasty cereal she likes. LOL.  I'm thinking of mixing cereal & carrots together. Anyone ever try this?

Yes, I tried my baby out on the cereal mixed with the first ever foods he tried, and gradually reduced the cereal down to nothing. Any foods he didn't seem fond of, I gave him before his milk feed when he was at his hungriest, that worked well too. Kepp the carrots and maybe she'll eat them mixed with another food later on, like with potatoes and peas. Now my little man pretty much eats anything I put in front of him, just like his dad lol!

Thanks! I'm going to try mixing carrots w/ rice her next feeding!

Mixing them with the rice worked for my daughter as well. Another thing you can try is alternating a spoonful of rice then a spoonful of veggies. Also you can try a spoonful of veggies with a little bit of fruit on the tip of spoon...thats usually "tricks" them into eating their veggies

My little one is very picky (drives me a little crazy). We held off on fruit for awhile, just like the books say to do, in hopes she would learn to like veggies. Well as soon as I introduced her to fruit it was bye bye veggies. It's nearly impossible for me me to get her to eat her veggies now. I have to "trick" her too. I do a couple spoonfuls of fruit then whamo I give her a spoonful of veggies. This is the only way that works. Try not to stress about it too much. Just think, most kids eat like three foods in rotation. Right now they are just "practicing" anyway.

I am liking everyone's trick ideas! Another trick I just tried recently as my little one has a couple teeth, is putting one of those "Bright Beginnings Little Puffs" on a spoonful of food that he's refusing to eat. Works a treat!

My son didn't love veggies either when he was little - he still doesn't actually - haha, but I did do the "one spoonful of this, one spoonful of that" trick and that went well, or try different veggies - Anthony always did well with sweet potatoes, but then went on a green-bean kick for a while.  Good luck - this one's tough.

I tried the "puffs" method yesterday and it worked like a charm!! My baby doesn't have teeth yet but they are on the verge of coming in so she can gum them. Thanks for the tidbit!

I found I can get my son to eat pretty much anything by mixing it with sweet potatoes or yams.  I start with an 80-20 mixture, sweet potatoes to whatever, then each day add less and less sweet potatoes.  I'm really lucky because my son likes a lot of different veggies.  I hope he's contuines for the rest of his life.  Keep trying, my doc says it can take children up to 30 times of trying a new food before the like it. Also if your child has only been eating solids for a little while, they are still learning and getting the hang of it.  Hang in there and Keep up the good work. Good Luck!