food, food, food

Before we started feeding Miller solid foods, we made the decision to make our own baby food using fresh fruits and vegetables. It has been a lot of fun!

Some fruits and vegetables that I picked up today from Whole Foods. Avocados, bell peppers, cauliflower, broccoli, yellow squash, mangoes.

The Healthy Baby Meal Planner by Annabel Karmel. This is a great book with lots of great baby food recipes and information on when and how to introduce foods.

Pears, plums, and parsnips chopped up and ready to be steamed.

Butternut squash steaming. Miller tried butternut squash for the first time this evening. He wouldn't eat very much of it, but he is getting over an ear infection and sinus infection so he hasn't been eating as much as normal. Also, it usually takes a couple of tries for him to get used to a new food.

My mini food processor and some pureed zucchini squash. I bought these baby food storage containers for freezing baby food and I LOVE them! They have screw top lids so the lids don't pop off. Also, I can separate his food into individual portions and I don't have to mess with ice cube trays (which is a common way to freeze homemade baby food).

My new label maker for labeling baby food. I LOVE it!!

Labeled homemade baby food ready to go in the freezer.

I made all of this baby food today except for the apples and sweet potatoes. It should be fun to see what Miller likes!

For about a month, he didn't really want to eat anything that we tried to feed him. He would close his mouth and turn his head away from the spoon. Then, all of a sudden, he decided that he was ready to eat solid foods. He opened his mouth wide and leaned forward in his highchair and ate 2 ounces of pureed apples. Ever since then he has been a pretty good eater. His favorite foods so far are apples and pears. He still cringes at the taste of bananas!