Did your baby that would eat 7mth+ jar food with bits in?

Try giving them a child safe fork or spoon with the food, they may play with their food and may end up wearing more then they actually get in their mouth .. but it's worth a shot. I never had this problem, but around that age my son became very curious of the spoon - once I saw that, I went out and purchased the spoon and fork (well its really not a fork .. its a spork), now he will pretty much eat anything - he uses his hands more then anything, but I think it is that feeling of being independent.

My daughter didn't like lumpy food either. If it seems to be just the odd texture try home made foods that are finely mashed instead of strained and slowly change to rough mash then to slightly mashed then small chopped. If you are trying to feed something that s a mixed food, something with bits of something else in it you may have to just wait till the child is older. Children under one year of age are still figuring out how to manipulate food in their mouth and mixed foods can be cumbersome for them to figure out.

I'd say it is a texture issue more than anything. I had problems getting my middle daughter to eat baby food at all. She's autistic though and it was the combination of texture and the stimulation that was the problem. I took easy to swallow foods such as canned peaches and cut them into teeny bits and put them on her high chair. She picked up the bits and ate them. Mind you she was at the age where she should have only been on the smoothest of foods but it was that or she wouldn't eat at all.

All of my kids ate that food with no problem, once they got used to it a bit. It took them a little while to learn just how to chew those little bits of food. Try again, and again, and again. I bet your babies just need to get used to it too.

My little girl who is now 18 months old loved food with bits in it at an early age, but most of it had to do with she had some stomach issues and the thicker the food the better she was to handle it. My son who is now 6, he was kinda in the same boat when it come to certian things. He loved the odd baby foods. Ham, with pinnapple chunks, and Apples with beef. You mention that he ate that when he was a baby he'll give you the Yuck! with a gagging expression, now. Do you still have your child on baby cereal? If so, you might try mixing some of the lumper food with that for a few days to get them used to it. That's how I done my son, even with introducing new foods. I knew he liked his cereal, so adding things to that he would alwasy gobble it up.

My son is just about to turn 1 and we never were successful in getting him to eat what some brands call the "stage 3" foods, the ones with chuncks in it. He just wasn't interested in it. I tried multiple times to get him to take it, but the result was the same each time. He would get the spoonful in his mouth and promptly spit it out. Any further attempts during that feeding to get him to eat it, would result in him throwing a fit. Like you said, the finger foods were no problem and he will still sometimes take the "stage 2" foods. My husband and I just finally came to the conclusion that as long as he was eating the finger foods with no problem and getting plenty to eat, that we wouldn't bother any more with the lumpier baby foods. He eats like a football player and is happy as can be. I did notice in the grocery store in our area, that there wasn't a large selection of these kinds of jared foods. Maybe that's a sign that they aren't that popular with the majority of babies.