Hello Alex
You have already asked the same question once before and got no reply saying
that you should give the baby veggies. Most answers say that you should go
on breastfeeding the baby. Others said that if you want to give it solids
then meat is the best.

If you look at it out of an evolutionary point of view you must find it
difficult to imagine your ancient foremother sitting with her baby in her
arms shoving in whatever mashed veggies she could have prepared. Instead,
whatever she gave the baby to taste it would have been out of her own mouth,
chewed and thoroughly "through spitted" and very likely she would not do
that until the baby showed some very eager interest in what she had in front
of her or what she had in her mouth. Very likely that would be meat.

On your direct question what veggies are suitable I would say that bell
peppers are very unsuitable - lots of people have allergic problems with
them.

Human "cubs" are very dependant on being close to their mother. Best is if
they can be constantly carried and breast fed on demand. The composition of
the human milk also makes the baby eat very often. Babies can eat as often
as 3-4 times an hour for 1-2 minutes/feed at a time if they are left free to
do so. (Konner and Worthman, (1980) Nursing frequency, ..... Science
207:788-791). WHO now recommends that babies should be fully breast fed
until at least 6 months.

Back to vegetables. There is a very good reason why young children are so
suspicious of vegetables. Far to many veggies are poisonous for it to be
safe for a child to be interested in them. Again if you imagine children of
some years of age roaming with older children in prehistoric times; those
who eat plants and berries without checking with their elders would soon be
dead. Being negative to veggies makes life safer for a child.

Someone on this list said we should not think we are smarter than our
bodies. This also applies to the bodies of our babies.

Hug to your baby and to you too
Eva


> I am about to start my son on solids. I plan to begin with vegetables.
> Unfortunately only four "vegetables" are available in the jarred variety:
>
> I plan on: yellow zucchini, carrots, yellow and red bell peppers, any
others?
>
> Then on to green zucchini, spinach, kale, broccoli, seaweed (asian
market),
> any others?
>
> When to introduce meats?
>
> Thanks, Alex
>