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Making and Starting Baby on Food

Photo Credit: Megan Malone

Making baby's food is actually pretty simple. I make all of my son's food, except for when I got lazy and bought baby peas in a jar. I just was not about to go home and try to peal and boil peas. Anyways, generally you just add your solid and some water then puree them together. I use the Baby Bullet Food Storage System to make all of my son's food so it came with a little mini recipe booklet and some storage containers along with the blending machine. As far as stage 1 foods go it is pretty easy, say you want to give baby some bananas well what you do is put the banana and 1/4 of a cup of water in the blender and puree it. Other things take a little more effort, like apples. Since apples are a harder  food you should first steam or boil them until they are soft and then put them in the blender along with 1/4 of a cup of water and puree. 
As for when to start solids and how to go about starting them, all that really depends on who your doctor is. I know people whose doctor said to give baby solids if they showed an interest in whatever Mom and Dad were eating, others say at four months you can start feeding, and I have even heard people starting as late as six months. I started at around four months with my son because I literally could not eat a meal without him staring at my food and eventually trying to reach for whatever was on my plate. 
The food I picked to start my son on was bananas, they are really gentle on baby's delicate tummy. I have heard doctors say start with all fruits and some say to start with vegetables. I try to give him one sweet food and one non-sweet food and just keep with that pattern. My reasoning behind that is because I have heard of babies who were given all fruits first and then would refuse their veggies because they did not taste as good as the sweet fruit. Therefore, my intention is to try and show him that not everything we eat is going to be sweet but it isn't all going to be bland either. 
When you go to introduce a new food you should serve baby that same food for three days in a row to make sure they aren't allergic to it. After the three days you can move on to a different food. I give Noah up to 2oz twice a day but he rarely eats more than a few spoonfuls right now. 
Storing baby food is not hard at all. The Baby Bullet Food System came with one or two storage/freezer cups but I like to pick one day and make a bunch of food in bulk and freeze it for later so I went to Walmart and got some ice cube trays or glad snack containers. After I puree the food I will put it in an ice cube try and label it with the name of the food inside and the date that the food was made. When I go to serve a new food I will take it out of the freezer the night before and put it in the fridge. The next day I will pop out one cube (try to find some that are bigger than your standard ice cube size) and put in a baby bowl and heat it up to take away the chill from the fridge. Once the food is warm you can serve your baby!


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