baby food

Just a change of heart

December 30, 2009
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Bananas have been on Norah’s Yuk List since she was 8 months old. Today is a new day!

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Simply Babyfood: Great Grains

October 19, 2009
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Welcome to the third of four installments of Simply Babyfood! This is a brief series where I expound to you the joys of making baby food the easy way. I love it when people pass along resources to me that make my life easier. So here’s me sharing the love. On that note, this website [...]

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Chickpea love

September 24, 2009

Doctor Washam dubbed this series of shots: Got hummus? Aliza has been enjoying hummus since she was 9 months old (back then it was minus the spices and oils). Now at the ripe old age of almost-two-and-a-half she can cash an entire bowl of the good stuff. The countdown for the Desert Princess’s first taste [...]

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Simply Babyfood: Gotta-go-now-to-go’s

September 14, 2009

Welcome to the second installment of Simply Babyfood. Today we’re talking about how to “make” baby food, but not really. These babyfoods don’t require much prep work at all. Less work + less stress + less mess! The first step to making Gotta-go-now-to-go’s is: Forget the steamer and the blender! When you’re on the run [...]

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Simply Babyfood: Staples

September 5, 2009

I’m dedicating a couple of posts to sharing what I’ve learned in my quest to make nutritious, simple babyfood without dipping into their college funds. Off the top of my head I thought of a few categories: Staples, Gotta-Go-Now-To-Go’s, Great Grains, and That’s Weird. Am I missing anything important? For starters, here’s a little ditty [...]

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Eastern baby food

August 16, 2009

I thought that making baby food here would be difficult to do, but am delighted to report that it isn’t. It’s far cheaper than the imported Gerber’s and someone gave me their 220V food processor to use. We have an expansive variety of grains available and the food has to travel a bit before it [...]

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First Bites

July 16, 2009

The baby started sitting up this week and that marked the last of her “signs of readiness” benchmarks in terms of trying solid food. She had been watching us like a little vulture as we ate our food for some time now. If she was sitting in my lap while I was eating then she [...]

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