Weaning from Baby Food

At what age do we (or did you) wean your babies from actual baby food?
I've been trying to come up with ways to do less baby food and more "real" food.

I've been buying more individual cups of veggies and fruits and I try to give him fresh fruits/veggies and bread and little bits of chicken and meat. I also keep a stash of gerber graduate pastas on hand. We also have cherios and goldfish crackers on hand for snacks.

What are you guys feeding your babies now? Are you still using some baby foods?

sorry i cant really help, kaydance weaned herself. well, i say that, but really she just boycotted ALL baby foods at 8 months old and i started finding soft people food and mashing up what we ate lol!

thane was just like kaydance! i have like 10 jars of sweet potatoes and turkey and apples and chicken that Thane will not TOUCH! it has to be big people food now in a plate or bowl so he can throw it when hes done and so he can use his fork or spoon

He wasn't "weaned" from baby food though til maybe about 14 months or so...he still ate it really well til then. We slowly would give him some of our food, and he seems to love garlic, spicy and rotel type tastes!

It sounds like you doing perfectly

LM still eats stage 3 foods. I do give her table foods as well... but she won't eat them until she's had her baby food! If I don't give her baby food from the jar, then I mash up what we are eating, and she loves that too. She still only has 4 bottom teeth in, so she struggles to chew. She is cutting her 4 top teeth right now... so hopefully she'll be able to eat much easier once those are in. She gags like crazy on table food still, but she does enjoy the taste.

Lou Lou- It sounds like you are doing well with transitioning Owen. One day he'll just surprise you and refuse the baby food.

Jayden has always been a great eater. She liked baby food, but when I started introducing our food to her, aside from initial gagging with each new type of food, she did great. I've always felt like baby food and baby cereal is an added expense that needs to be cut out as soon as possible, in that as soon as they're able to eat enough of my food, I stop buying the baby food. Cause in proportion sizes, baby food applesauce has nothing on a large jar of regular applesauce. I would say I pushed Jayden away from baby food. But, I'm also not a big stickler for restricting sugars, sodium, and preservatives either. We're not an unhealthy family by any means, but I know her dr would shake his head at me here and there for some food choices we give them.

Cherry - I'm kinda like you. If he can handle big people food and it saves me money I'm all for it! I'm trying to limit sugar, sodium and preservative intake. I don't want Owen to grow up with weight issues like I've had and I'm hoping that by teaching him to eat the right things early on it will help us both! He LOVES "real" applesauce and I've found a blueberry/pomegranate flavor that is awesome! I do buy the individual packets still because it helps keep things portable and helps keep things from spoiling but it's still cheaper than the baby food. Since we have weaned from formula and made these minor changes with his food my grocery bill is about $25 less a week! THAT'S HUGE!!!!!!! That's $100 a month!!!!!! (I just realized that! ha!)

Well, Owen has only had two jars of baby food this week! He has done all finger foods like carrots, peas, green beans, corn, butter beans, cucumbers, strawberries, peaches and bananas. He's also had some chicken, noodles, applesauce, yogurt, blueberry muffins and of course, his beloved cherios and some goldfish crackers.

I've been so concerned about variety but after I wrote this out it looks like he ate a better variety of veggies than I did!!!!!

Nicki - did Kian like the chicken? Owen went NUTS the first time he had meat! I guess the taste and texture was so different!!!!

My first who is 4 now, i think she was fully eating normal food (not baby food) by 12 months, she was a weird eater at the start and would oly eat baby food... With my 2 yr old, well he had to be on solids at 8 weeks old, and basically was eating proper foods from the start, only gave him baby food to see how he went,

Still having trouble with Lucy not swallowing food. She eats like a champ, storing it up like a little chipmunk, and then she chokes on it and out it all comes. I try to watch her and give her sips of water, because then she will swallow the food with the water. My husband thinks she just is lacking the teeth still to do the job right yet.

Im sure my kids were around 12 months when they came off baby food totally.
My kids all got teeth early and had no real trouble eating adult food. I kept food like raw apples and carrots until they were over 18 months so they could chew them properly but otherwise it wasn't a real issue.