Healthy food for my baby

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Congrats on trying to make the food homemade, but why so much of it? do you cook your own food once a month and then freeze it? If not, why do this with a baby? Not only some foods are better (regarding vitamin content) served immediately when prepared (e.g. fruit and vegetables rich in vitamin c) but for many foods it is much easier ot just puree them with a fork than prepare them in huge batches, freeze them, reheat them and so on. And what if the baby's tastes or preference to texture change?
All this batch baby food making is one of these things that sound awesome for a first time mother, and then make you wonder "why did I do that?" As you can see, I have been there Planning carefully purees etc. Then I realised that just removing from the pot a small portion of our food before salt was added and pureing a few tablespoons, or just using a fork to puree some fresh fruit, was much simpler, less time consuming, probably healthier and preparing baby for real food. I admit it did not look that cute though
Also, I second baby lead weaning. Much simpler in general.

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aggelikik wrote: »

Congrats on trying to make the food homemade, but why so much of it? do you cook your own food once a month and then freeze it? If not, why do this with a baby? Not only some foods are better (regarding vitamin content) served immediately when prepared (e.g. fruit and vegetables rich in vitamin c) but for many foods it is much easier ot just puree them with a fork than prepare them in huge batches, freeze them, reheat them and so on. And what if the baby's tastes or preference to texture change?
All this batch baby food making is one of these things that sound awesome for a first time mother, and then make you wonder "why did I do that?" As you can see, I have been there Planning carefully purees etc. Then I realised that just removing from the pot a small portion of our food before salt was added and pureing a few tablespoons, or just using a fork to puree some fresh fruit, was much simpler, less time consuming, probably healthier and preparing baby for real food. I admit it did not look that cute though
Also, I second baby lead weaning. Much simpler in general.

Haha, even with my small amount of batching and freezing, I've basically ended up with a pile of puréed sweet potato and chicken in the freezer that I'm not gonna use. Stick blender or fork + what we're having most of the time. I'll make some stew every couple weeks to freeze in batches for times we're having something too spicy (works well for the toddler too) but other than that, fresh mashed plus kinda half blw anyway.

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I think the main benefit of feeding your kid what you're eating is that they are more likely to develop a taste for your cooking. I had a friend who prepared 2 dinners every night because her kids "wouldn't eat" anything but chicken nuggets, hot dogs, or pizza. (That was a huge amount of projection on her part, though, because when they'd come to my house to play, I refused to make special meals and they ate a variety of foods just fine) I'm too lazy for that shiz. BLW+"here, have what I'm having, just cut up smaller"=lazy mom special.

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I fed/feed my three the same food as I eat.

Red meat, rum and ice cream.

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That's a lot of purees. You look very organized

We used a mix of jars and smashing up whatever we were feeding. My daughter didn't eat more than a tablespoon of solids a day until about 7.5 months and then I switched her to regular foods pretty quick. I'd steam broccoli and give her a full spear to chew on or cut a peeled peach in half and let her gum it. With meat I'd mince it up.

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rabbitjb wrote: »

First time parent - sweet

here .. you're on the wrong site

babycenter.com/

You might prefer Mothering.com.