http://www.mattandstephaniesblog.com/baby-stuff/making-baby-food/ stories of life, family, and wild things twin toddlers entertain us with. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:16:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.mattandstephaniesblog.com/baby-stuff/making-baby-food/comment-page-1/#comment-1255 Meg DeZutti Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:43:36 +0000 http://www.mattandstephaniesblog.com/?p=1716#comment-1255 We made all of Sammys food from day one as well (other than oatmeal, which obviously we only cooked.) He ate/eats sweet potatoes, white potatoes (he likes these better because he ate them the entire time in ETH), carrots, peas, applesauce, peaches, rice. He likes everything better heavily seasoned. HATES things plain. He does eat commercial yogert. Now that he's a "big boy" he likes things not blended but either chunky or whole (pears, apples) and sandwiches, along with frittata (egg, potato, veggies.) He has had sausage in the frittata 2x but doesn't seem to like the texture. NOW, we just give him what we are eating, and G does almost everything from scratch (other than pasta -- he hasn't made that yet.) Other than saving money and waste, I didn't want to give Sam prepared food because I don't give him anything that I wouldn't eat myself. Seriously, if I don't eat it or like the taste, it doesn't go in my child. I think this is partially because he likes to "feed" me and I want to eat what I want to eat. I think the variety and texture is good for him and will make him a better/ more diverse eater as a toddler and preschooler. We made all of Sammys food from day one as well (other than oatmeal, which obviously we only cooked.) He ate/eats sweet potatoes, white potatoes (he likes these better because he ate them the entire time in ETH), carrots, peas, applesauce, peaches, rice.
He likes everything better heavily seasoned. HATES things plain. He does eat commercial yogert. Now that he’s a “big boy” he likes things not blended but either chunky or whole (pears, apples) and sandwiches, along with frittata (egg, potato, veggies.) He has had sausage in the frittata 2x but doesn’t seem to like the texture.
NOW, we just give him what we are eating, and G does almost everything from scratch (other than pasta — he hasn’t made that yet.)
Other than saving money and waste, I didn’t want to give Sam prepared food because I don’t give him anything that I wouldn’t eat myself. Seriously, if I don’t eat it or like the taste, it doesn’t go in my child. I think this is partially because he likes to “feed” me and I want to eat what I want to eat.
I think the variety and texture is good for him and will make him a better/ more diverse eater as a toddler and preschooler.

]]> http://www.mattandstephaniesblog.com/baby-stuff/making-baby-food/comment-page-1/#comment-1254 Melissa Bates Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:19:36 +0000 http://www.mattandstephaniesblog.com/?p=1716#comment-1254 I too made all of Ashleys baby food and loved it. I would spend a couple hours usually 1 day a month and do like you said, freeze it in cubes. It was perfect, I knew what she was getting and it did save on money. I did buy some jared stuff for traveling purposes, becasue it held longer when we knew we werent going to be close to a refridgerator. Congratulations and good luck with the rest of it. I too made all of Ashleys baby food and loved it. I would spend a couple hours usually 1 day a month and do like you said, freeze it in cubes. It was perfect, I knew what she was getting and it did save on money. I did buy some jared stuff for traveling purposes, becasue it held longer when we knew we werent going to be close to a refridgerator. Congratulations and good luck with the rest of it.

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