Friday, February 13, 2009

Soren eats

Making baby food is a LOT of fun! Everything mentioned here is steamed except potatoes and sweet potatoes, which are much better (tasting) baked, and grains, which I just cook on the stove top as directed.

Little man eats a ton. In general, he eats two of the following for breakfast: half a piece of buttered wheat toast, an entire banana, 2 ounces of YoBaby yogurt (his new favorite).

For lunch, Nanny says he's a vacuum--he eats around 6 ounces total. That's a LOT of food for a little baby!

For dinner, he also eats around 6 ounces. I try to give him three colors at any one sitting, such as white (banana, yougurt, potato) + orange (carrots, sweet potato)+ purple (eggplant, blueberries, blackberries), or green (broccoli, spinach, peas) + red (tomato sauce, strawberries) + yellow (squash, corn).

For his two big snacks a day, he likes Purely O's (organic version of Cheerios) and cubed cheese (especially extra sharp cheddar, what a weirdo). He also likes diced strawberries and pear, but he gets really frustrated at those because they are SUPER slippery and suction to the table really easily.

Some recent major meal hits have been:

• Ground filet mignon with polenta and pureed tomato-cream sauce (chicken stock, tomato paste, white wine, onion and garlic, cream, and romano cheese). He doesn't usually get such complicated food, but this was a slight adjustment to something Tommy and I had for dinner.

• Puréed beef stew

• Puréed chicken vegetable soup

• Puréed broccoli + baked potato + romano cheese. Yum, this was so good I wanted to eat it myself.

• Purée of apple/pear/broccoli. Surprisingly tasty!

• Peas--so fun and easy to pick up!

Some things that did not go over well at ALL:

• Puréed asparagus. The addition of salt and lemon juice did not increase its appeal (at least not to Soren; I on the other hand finished it off).

• Puréed eggplant + romano

• Purée of carrots/orange bell pepper/zucchini. He likes carrots & zucchini, so the bell pepper must have thrown him off. But it has tons of vitamin C!

• Puréed strawberries + blueberries + blackberries. I am pretty sure he just disliked all the seeds. I guess I'll purchase these in baby food jars from now on, and someone else can filter out all those minute seeds. That's worth 79 cents of my time, for sure.

And a lukewarm reception went to:

• Puréed apples & strawberry + amaranth. But he is going to have to get used to amaranth, because it's a complete protein which is hard to come by in a vegetarian source.

Here's what we've got on deck for the next couple of days--hopefully he likes it all:



• Swiss chard puréed with chicken stock + ground baked potato skins (it's GOOD!)

• Mashed baked potato + cheddar (to be mixed with puréed broccoli or something similar)

• Polenta + fresh mozzarella

• Baked sweet potato mashed with cheddar

• Chard (to be added to quinoa or amaranth)

I'll keep track of his favorite recipes for anyone out there who might be interested in well-received baby meals.

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