How do you heat solids when you are out to dinner?

If you are out to dinner and it's time to feed solids, do you serve them at room temp or do you ask the waitress to warm them in the microwave? I'd hate to serve them room temp veggies! Fruits, okay, but not veggies, ya know?

 

If you are out to dinner and it's time to feed solids, do you serve them at room temp or do you ask the waitress to warm them in the microwave? I'd hate to serve them room temp veggies! Fruits, okay, but not veggies, ya know?

 

I either try to feed them before we go or serve room temp. I do NOT let the baby's food out of my sight and if they warm it up it may end up too hot or not hot enough (too hot is more likely since the micros in restaurants are usually much more powerful than the one at home.)

 

Babies don't care what temp their food is. It is adults that have the hang up. My father stil cringes as I eat cold pizza and spaghetti! Just serve them room temp!

 

I agree, my babies don't mind room temp. I serve it slightly warmed but when DH gives it room temp, they don't care.

But for convience, I would probably feed before we went and then just bring a few toys for them to keep occupied.

 

I dont heat anything, no bottles or foods. Everything is served room temp

 

I've never warmed their solids. They have been getting them at room temp since day one.

 

You know you can get one of those portable baby food "grinders" to take with you everywhere you go. They aren't electric, you just turn them to mash the food, and it keeps you from having to take food with you...you can throw in a little chicken, potatoes, beans, whatever, and mash it all up together for the kids. I think amazon has them. My cousin uses one all the time, but I didn't know about the portable ones until the girls were about 11.5 months old, and I didn't see the point in getting one then. She said hers was about $15, I think. That solves the problem of cold food

 

If it is a new can I always have served it at room temp. We always took a new one to open if we were out to eat and just served at room temp. I only heated the solids when they had been in the refrigerator.

 

Ask for a cup of warm water and stick the jar in the cup. I used to do that with my oldest.

 

We've never heated ours either. I actually didn't even know people did that. I've only seen them served room temp. We've also always given bottles at room temperature, but that is because the hospital nurses told us to. It's funny I've never even thought about heating them!

 

My oldest had fabelous jars of cold spaghetti stage 3 on airplanes and she never seemed to mind?!

 

I have heated their food at home and taken it with us. We just feed them soon after we arrive at the restaurant. This seems to work well.

 

We serve room temperature veggies/fruits. We try not to feed while we're out, because it's a pretty big deal and mine are still kind of messy eaters.

 

If it didn't happen frequently, I would just feed them a bottle at the beginning to hold them and they missed ONE round of solids. If I planned ahead (at 6 mos.) I would feed them before we went and took a bottle. Or moved that feeding to lunch instead!

 

Since I nursed for 6 months, my babies are used to hot milk, so we have to heat bottles...and I heat the food too except for fruits, unless they are mixed with some cereal.
So, I bought this small bottle insulater- keeps cold cold and warm warm with the cold/heat pack. I am in the van a lot, and since I am often away from home with two babies, when I leave, I pack 4 bottles of water. Right before I leave, I put them in the microwave and heat them until they are almost too hot to pick up. I heat up the little heat pack, and put them in the insulator tote. If I know we are going to eat out, then I take fresh baby food in the jars, heat them in the microwave until really hot, and then put the lids back on. By the time we are ready to eat, everything is really warm, perfect to serve at the meal.
I bought the tote at BabiesRUs. Probably would work with any small tote or insulated lunch bag...just that this one holds 4 big bottles upright.

 

We serve room temp or one of us orders mashed potatos!!!