For a variety of reasons, we skipped the rice cereal stage and went straight for the green stuff: avocado, thoroughly smushed.
At first she was all...
Wait, what's happening? Where are the toys? |
Oh look at me! |
I need to add on to these chins |
Um.... mom? |
OH! It's food! I love eating! |
Wait this is weird. |
She maybe ate about a real-person spoonful or so. (I froze the rest of the avocado in ice cube trays for later)
At this stage, baby feeding is fun. I want to try all kinds of things and feed her all of the time. I'm doing neither, for obvious reasons. We will take it slow, but I can't wait until she's eating what we eat.
[Each month I write a letter to her - full of irrelevant detail, mostly for my own memories. I will probably share her 6m one here - along with more pictures! (When I actually write it...) I feel like my "omgmykidisamazinglookatallofthesepictures" has dropped significantly here on the blog and that's not ok.]
Anyone have any baby food making advice or sites they want to share? Right now it's pretty basic, but still!
eeee!!! real food! We give K anything and everything (except honey). It's fun, it's easy, and the recent food allergy data suggests the more foods the merrier (ie: less allergic). woot!
ReplyDeleteFreezing in ice cube trays is the way to go! I made my sort of thick-ish so I could thin them with water and, if I used them later, they would have a thicker consistency. We never did plain cereals, but I used them to thicken purees I had made if I accidentally thinned them too much.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to make your own baby food with meats, go for it. There are a lot of good recipes out there, but my child wouldn't touch the ones I made. So, I would recommend making a very little at a time. If you haven't looked at wholesomebabyfood.com yet, you should! They have lots of good combo ideas and ideas for finger foods as well. I also liked recipes from squashblossombabies.com. It's not a baby food blog, but she posted what she made for her daughter, and I liked several of the ideas she posted for C as he got older. Scroll down to the tags to find her baby food ideas/recipes!
Super Baby Food is an amazing book on making your own baby food. It's also a crazy overwhelming book that will make you feel totally inadequate....so take it with a grain of salt :) It tells you which foods freeze well, which ones you should cook first, how long they last...etc. I have a copy you can borrow :)
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