Adventures in Food

Making our Own
I have found that it's actually pretty fun (and cheap/easy) to make Madison's food myself. Generally, I just steam whatever it is I'm making (here it's peas) and then throw it in the food processor for a while.

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Then I spoon the "mush" into ice cube trays to be frozen.

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And label a freezer bag for the cubes to be stored in once they are frozen solid and ready to be removed from the tray!

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After a quick zap in the microwave, her meal is ready to go!

Her Eating Habits
She's been proving to be a little picky and doesn't seem to be totally sold on the whole solid food idea. She still definitely gets the majority of her nutrition from breast milk. Sometimes she'll eat a decent meal, but a lot of the time, she'll take a few bites and then clamp that little mouth shut.

There are, however, a few foods that she'll almost always open wide for: Happy Baby Organic Greens Puffs, rice cereal, and oatmeal. And considering she really should be eating more prunes than rice cereal (if you catch my drift), this proves to be an issue. And I think she's addicted to those darn puffs. We can't let her see them before she has eaten her other food or she'll refuse anything else. We let her feed them to herself at the end of the meal.

Here is some puff eating in action. Her self-feeding skills improved very rapidly.

Waiting to be eaten.

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"What do you mean I missed??"

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Recent New Foods
We just introduced yogurt and cheese. She did NOT like the yogurt and I'm not surprised. Plain yogurt is really tangy. Any suggestions on how to get her to eat it (what to mix it with)?

The cheese she seems sort of okay with. She doesn't eat much, yet, but she seems to like that it's a finger food.

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