Heating up their food

My girls recently moved from their cereal to 1st foods. I was just opening the new little containers at room temperature, refrigerating leftovers and then when needed feeding them the leftovers cold. They seem to take to it cold just fine. Honestly I feel a little silly, I never even thought about warming them up until my mom said something when she saw me get the food out of the frig and feed it to them. Makes me wonder if I am the only doing this, if so my poor girls...

 

I have to heat up the cold food for mine or they won't eat it. I have really picky eaters though. If I could get them to eat it cold I would but mine like to gag.

 

We're straight out of the fridge here too! They have drank their bottles that way since they were 4 months too.

 

I only heated it to take the chill off but I tried to leave it room temp or tried not to make it too warm so that way if we ever were out or traveling and couldn't heat it up then they would be ok with it.

 

Mine only take theirs at room temp or straight out of the fridge. We do warm up their bottles in warm water.

 

I never heated it up. I just gave it to them cold out of the fridge or room temp (depending on if it was a new container or left overs). Even now with table food, I may heat stuff up just to take the chill off, but I don't serve them hot food.

 

my mom said the same exact thing to me last week and I felt bad after that and started warming the veggies up a little!!! glad I wasn't the only one either!

 

QUOTE(aimeethomp @ Jul 22 2008, 07:40 PM) [snapback]890267[/snapback]
I have to heat up the cold food for mine or they won't eat it. I have really picky eaters though. If I could get them to eat it cold I would but mine like to gag.



same here. except sometimes i give them the fruit cold (tho they hate the fruit, period)

 

I heated refrigerated food, but never heated at freshly opened jar of food.

 

I don't ever heat new jars of food because I started that with the bottles and feeding DS2 a bottle while out is about impossible. The only thing they will eat cold is some fruit, but that's not even all the time.

 

Wow. I had never even thought about heating baby food. We don't even heat their bottles- they get them cold, so I'm sure I won't heat the baby food either!

 

We never heated it up here, either.

 

I don't heat food or bottles. MIL says something every time. Makes me laugh. People just did things different before.

 

I warm the refrigerated left over to room temp-they wont eat it cold. I am slowly making bottles less warm to try and get them used to it. No right or wrong here-I think it is what ever your babies will tolerate or have come used to.

 

Thank you for all the replies. I am happy to know I am not the only mom giving her kiddos cold food

 

I never heated anything for DS, he was like a garbage disposal. The girls on the other hand, spit out cold food/formula and just stare at me like I've done something wrong. There food and drink gets heated now.

 

For fruits, I store them in the fridge because they love those cold. We use the Sassy BPA Free dishes for other solids, like lunches and dinners that taste better warm (Mac and Cheese, Oatmeal, and stuff like that), right in the microwave for foods that were leftover in the fridge. I dump it in, heat for 20 seconds, and it's ready to go.