Evelyn is 8 1/2 months old. I've been feeding her chunkier food and I'm going to add protein into her diet with the new year! So, I thought I'd update all my friends that have babies coming into this stage (and post my ideas here so I will have them when we repeat this stage in a few years!). Here are some of the new things I have done with and without meat to prep for going back to work.
*Italian Style Veggies (from the frozen and then I put in the vitamix on Variable 3-5, depending on how chunky I want them. I was going to put ground turkey with this but I decided to have the daycare do 2 veggie cubes and 1 cube with meat, so these are my veggie cubes.)
*Veggies and pasta: 1 bag frozen peas, 1 bag frozen butternut squash, 1/3 bag of Ditalini pasta. This pasta is the perfect size for a "finger food." However, for this recipe I pureed the peas and squash (on variable 3 in the vitamix) and I'm adding the pasta for the chunkiness!
*I am using a lot of Stahlbush Island Farms frozen products. This week at Market Street I found Red Beans and Rice. I mixed 1 bag of red beans and rice with 6 stage 2 gerber pea containers. (I normally would have pureed my own but I had some containers of food that were about to expire)
*Chicken Soup: These egg noodles have a great recipe for chicken soup on the back and I just use a bag of peas and carrots as my vegetable and chop up the noodles a little before giving them to her.
*Sweet Potatoes and Chicken: 1 bag of frozen Sweet Potatoes and 1 small chicken breast or 1/2 of a large chicken breast (I baked mine in the oven with salt, pepper, and a little bit of garlic along with several other chicken breasts so I could use them to make the chicken soup). I pureed it on Variable 4 in the vitamin with 1/2 of a cup of the chicken broth from the pan. Personally I think the ratio of chicken to veggies is high so I plan on serving 1 cube of this with 2 cubes of veggies.
*Butternut squash and broccoli: 1 bag of frozen butternut squash with 1/2 to 3/4 a bag of chopped frozen broccoli. I think I'll have to mash the broccoli a little more when I feed it to her, but we will see.
I also found diced carrots, green beans, and peas in little to go containers in the canned vegetable section at wal-mart. My only complaint is that they contain salt, but they are great for on the go once rinsed in water. I also purchased the Alexia mashed potato cubes in the frozen section which are perfect!
She also loves chobani greek yogurt in every flavor we have tried so far (including lemon and pomegranate)
2 hours later I have 158 cubes of food in the freezer and we have lunch and dinner in the freezer for the next 2 months (plus some breakfast too!)
For breakfast I made:
*fresh diced bananas (3 bananas) with applesauce and pureed cranberries cooked in orange juice (I cook the cranberries on the stove).
*canned pears diced, canned diced mandrain oranges with applesauce and some pureed blueberries
I just mix stuff and sometimes add water until I get the right consistency or until I feel like it has enough chunk but not to much!
Hope this helps!
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