In Which I feed baby.....

I thought I'd write a post on how and what I feed baby.  I love cooking and I love cooking for my son as well. 

For making his food I have a food mill  and a little food processor.  Not an expensive food processor, just a cheapie one I found for under ten bucks.   I have a big bad food processor too but it just didn't work for me to make babyfood in it, way too big.   I don't freeze mini's food, we don't have enough freezer space so I just make enough to 2-3 meals for him at a time. 

Here are some of the meals I've made for him:

Baby s'ghetti
zucchini
pasta sauce
whole grain spaghetti
Parmesan cheese

I took a small zucchini and shredded it and cooked it with probably 1/4 cup of water stirring it occasionally until it was well cooked  I put a good handful of cooked whole grain spaghetti and put it through the food mill and added it to the zucchini then I added about 3 tablespoons of pasta sauce to coat everything and added the tablespoon of Parmesan cheese and divided into meal size portions.  I tend to put things in 3-4 ounce portions for Mini.  Now my little guy likes things chunkier so I didn't put the zucchini through the mill or processor after it was cooked.

And Mini-Memblers really loved his spaghetti, he ate all of it happily through three meals.

Baby chili mac:
Whole grain pasta.
pinch ground turkey
2 tablespoons finely chopped onion
4 tablespoons finely chopped peppers, I used 2 tablespoons green and 2 tablespoons yellow
small spoonful chili beans
regular spoonful kidney beans
tomato sauce to bind everything

I made this alongside our chili, I sauteed the onion and peppers in a very small amount of olive oil.  Then I added the ground turkey and cooked it very well.  Then I added the beans, pasta and tomato sauce and cook for a couple more minutes. I didn't make it saucy, I put just enough in to coat everything.  Then I put it through the food processor which worked really well. 


Grilled cheese and tomato soup for baby

Grilled cheese sandwich, real American cheese, two slices whole grain bread, a little bit of butter
Tomato soup (I made mine with milk)

I tore the sandwich up into small pieces and put it through the babyfood mill (who knew a grilled cheese sandwich could do that?) and then mix in enough tomato soup to create the consistency desired.

Baby loved this as well. 

So that's what I tend to do, take what we're having and make a babyfied version alongside ours if ours is too strongly spiced or too rich.    

I'm lucky to have such a wonderful son and I'm happy he's an adventurous little eater!