Do you freeze the baby food? It will last longer and it makes it easier to gauge what quantities to make- all it takes is freezer bags and ice cube trays. If you don't want your daughter to have crackers, then stop offering them. Babies tend to have a short attention span and will forget about things if kept away long enough.

If your daughter doesn't like pure fruit, try mixing them in with something else- baby custard, baby rice, you can even make a soft rice pudding and blend the fruit through it.

For veggies, try to avoid overcooking them as they will turn out bitter. Add a little dab of butter to sweeten them up or mix in with a filler like sweet potato. Depending on the age, you can make veggies taste much better. I've even made them in homemade teething rusks.

Sorry- sleep deprived. I meant to say that depending on the age, you can use cheese to make it taste better. ;o)

i do freeze it, ice cube trays and freezer bags all the way...lol. i dont offer her a rice cracker if she wont eat her fruit...she just fusses and fusses until she gets one. I let her fuss for four hours once, tried everything else. reoffered her the fruit, bottle, clean diaper, even a warm bath...and all she wanted was the cracker!
she looooves the veggies, ecspecially squash, and she was eating the fruit in the begginning, but now she seems to find it gross.
we eat a banana and yogurt for breakfast, and she will eat this, but the banana is mashed up fresh. i dont think i can give her cheese yet, technically it should be another week before she is suppossed to start real food but i think parenting is more play it by ear then do it by the book.
i want to introduce turkey, but i think i should get her eating the fruit first.
question? if she eats vanilla yogurt can i give her flavored yogurt? maybe mix the apricot she wont eat with peach yogurt? or the apples she spits out with some banana yogurt?

crazy brain for a minute there too...lol...i want her to be able to eat crackers...its her mid day snack because she has started to refuse bottles in the afternoon unless it is water or really watery apple juice, so the crackers are her only real sustenance between her 1130 lunch and 430 supper.

Welcome to my world! My daughter isn't really into fruit, either. She does LOVE YoBaby yogurt and that is fruity. I give that to her every morning for breakfast. Other than that -- the only fruit she will consistently eat is applesauce. She also loves veggies -- pretty much everything but peas. I feel that the veggies are more important so I do focus on those and don't worry too much if she's not eating a ton of fruit in her day. She will eat fruit-flavored yogurt melts and fruit-flavored puffs. We have been having an issue where she only wanted to eat puffs and yogurt bites. I just don't let her have them until I feel she's eaten a decent amount of her "real" food. I try to go back and forth -- so if I'm feeding her a serving of veggies and a serving of fruit, and she doesn't want to eat the fruit, I offer several bites of veggie then sneak a bite of fruit in, then go right back to the veggies. I've also been known to mix fruit with carrots, which is her absolute favorite veggie. She'll pretty much eat anything if carrots are involved. You could try pumpkin, that's very similar to squash but is technically a fruit.

Has her milk demand been decreasing since you started her on solids? I only ask because according to your profile she is 5-6 months old. A baby that age does not require much solids in her diet. She'll still be getting most of her nutritional needs from BM (her stomach is too immature to drag many nutrients out of solids). If her demand is decreasing, try offering her less solids until it goes back to normal. The decrease in milk will come around 8-10 months.

Too many solids + too soon = a too early wean off of milk

That can lead to a weak immune system and health problems. If your daughter is not eating much, it quite possibly means that she has had her fill. Just listen to her cues and let her guide you.

Just curious, but what do you mean by num num crackers? Is it a brand or just a certain type of cracker?

My daughter is on solids because she was eating upwards of 12oz of formula every two hours. The doctors couldn't find why she was eating so much, and they told me it wasn't healthy for her to gorge like that. So my physician told me to go ahead and start the solids a little bit earlier. She does well with them, and today she ate her usual amount. Maybe she has just been fussy.
Her father had a kidney transplant at the age of 20, so we do keep a close eye on her health. A weak immune system is something we cater to in this house already so we dont want to have to do it again! But she gets checked for diabetes and other illnesses about once a month...so far, no issues with the solids have arisen. She still eats a healthy amount of formula.
Num num crackers are a brand...lol..they are rice husk crackers. Wonderful things. They dissolve almost instantly when they hit the kids mouth, turn into the consistency of runny rice cereal. Only problem is they are so fragile that they often get busted up in transport in the diaper bag.

My experience has shown that babies love blueberries. Perhaps try offering her some blueberries (cut in half, or to whatever size you feel comfortable giving her). I have also given my daughter very small pieces of fresh grapes. I think the change in texture of eating the real fruit compared with pureed baby food interests them. Good luck!

Ah, you mean mum mums! They are great. The veggie ones have spinach powder sprinkled on them, so they are a good source of iron for a wee one.

My daughter was a really big eater, too. She was probably on the equivalent of formula (12 oz bottles every 4 hours), which was practically 2 extra bottles more a day than what her percentile required. As long as your daughter is not overweight, she probably has needs her mommy's milk. She's around the age where she is going to start growing a lot (6 month growth spurt is a big one). I'm surprised that most medical professionals forget to take that into consideration.

You might also want to check with your doctor about if they have updated resources. Recommended age for starting solids is 6 months (a lot has changed in the past few years). They have found that babies' bodies are too immature to get much nutrients out of solid foods before 6 months of age. Solids should be a slow and steady introduction as a baby's stomach learns how to properly process food. You should only need a cube of food a day at the moment. The rest should come from BM or formula. :o)