Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Baby Food Part 3

I'm so amazed by what babies can "gum" and eat successfully with such a small number of teeth. During month 9, I started experimenting with Evelyn eating her own food (beyond cheerios) at dinner and at all meals on the weekends when we were home. She is now successfully eating most of her meal herself, although I supplement by feeding her some pureed veggies since it seems like half of the food goes in the high chair. Here are some of our favorites for each meal. In addition I must recommend eating with no clothing on and using a bib that "catches" some of the food!

It is also important to note that when I cook dinner for us I try to think about her. For example, if I make ground beef for spaghetti for us, I will take off about 1 cup without seasonings and portion it out into smaller amounts for her in small snack baggies so I can pull meals out for her on the fly. So when you see "1 cube" those are portions I have frozen in ice cube trays. When you see 1/4 cup, those are portions that I have frozen in small snack baggies.

Breakfast:
  • diced bananas
  • diced pears
  • diced peaches
  • diced sweet peppers with scrambled eggs and hash brown potatoes
  • diced sweet peppers with diced turkey sausage
  • applesauce mixed with 1/2 of a hard boiled egg
  • chunks of clementines
Lunch/Dinner:
  • 1 cube of ditali pasta with 2 cubes pureed veggies
  • 1/4 cup ground chicken with petite diced tomatoes and 2 cubes pureed veggies
  • 1/2 to a whole diced avacado
  • diced carrots with peas and small shreds of chicken
  • 1/4 cup pot roast with mashed carrots and pureed sweet potatoes
  • 1/4 cup pot roast mixed with some brown rice and mixed veggies
  • pureed okra and sweet potatoes (I didn't puree it until the okra was complete mush, you can still taste the texture from the seeds and some of the okra skin ~ which is what I was hoping to achieve) 
  • 1/4 cup red beans and brown rice with pureed veggies (see Baby Food 2 post)
  • 1/4 cup ground chicken with cabbage and carrots (cooked until soft ~ used for egg rolls for us)

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