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GRIM has started really enjoying meats, I think she's 9-9.5 months, now. We've been doing what I call "and meat" baby foods for her afternoon/evening time meals. She LOVES veggies (particularly squash or greens) and took like a pro to Macaroni and Cheese once we realized it was just too thick for her (Beech-Nut) and started thinning it out with a little water. We saw something called Vegetable Risotto with Cheese from Gerber and gave that a shot. Gangbusters! Found something from Beech-Nut called Good Nights (Turkey and veg dinner, Chicken Noodle dinner, etc) that combined meat with her favorite flavors. Sweet Potato and Turkey she'll eat a ton of, mostly because she loves sweet potatoes. It smells really good, too. We've since tried her on Ham, Pineapple and Rice dinner, which was a no-go. Next is the one we found last night, salmon in a vegetable mix of some sort - can't quite remember. Definitely keep coming back to the meats as they get older. GRIM is likewise stubborn about opening her mouth for anything once she's been given a bite of something she doesn't want. We've gotten a work around in saying "taste" if it's something we want her to try (or an old favorite if we're switching foods mid-meal) and "eat" in combination with the sign-language motion when it's something she's been eating. New foods get one or two spoonfuls after she's started losing interest in eating. Not when she's full, but when she's less focused on eating and more on looking at the straps of her high chair, etc. That way, if she doesn't like it, she's already eaten a meal. We also keep the separate foods in very different dishes at the table. For instance, when we tried the turkey and sweet potatoes the first time, she was eating green beans in her brightly two-colored Crayola toddler spoon from an old Gerber jar. When we switched to the new food, it was in a black ramican (tiny bowl for, say, a side of dressing in a restaurant) and fed with a rubber-over-metal Gerber spoon. We show her, new spoon.. new 'bowl'.. new food. This has kept her from confusion about flavors changing. She's sharp enough to catch if we stick to one spoon/dish combo but use say a blue set for one and red for another, she knows it's a separate food.

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