babyfruit: the (mis)adventures of mommyhood

The Latest Foods

Here's the latest on NG's menu:

1. a nice blend of swiss chard, carrots and zucchini

2. Puffin cereal and Sans Gluten apple & cinnamon cereal

3. rice cereal with black strap molasses and/or ground pumpkin seed

4. organic ground turkey soup with veggies (mostly broth, little bits of meat)

5. just gave her a few pieces of turkey breast today

6. pieces of banana

7. cooked sweet potato (bought some frozen sweet potato "fries" that are baked and easy to heat up)

8. acorn & butternut squash

9. Van's gluten-free, egg & dairy free Waffles

10. Carrot strips steamed

11. Gerber Graduates dehydrated mini fruits (banana pineapple, apple and sweet corn)

12. cauliflower - not her favorite

I'm still supplementing with about 4-5 bottles of formula (organic dairy) and Gerber organics for green beans in particular. Still avoiding wheat gluten since I have a progressively worse sensitivity.

All in all, she is eating, growing, eating and growing some more. That's the food update!

Any other fast & easy suggestions? Always looking for ideas.

Chow

NG will be 6 months old next week. We started her on solid foods today.

We're following the naturopathic approach to introducing solids to baby. Introducing one food at a time for 2-3 days. If no reaction, introduce a new high iron food by itself for 2-3 days. And so on until you have introduced a dozen or so foods that are appropriate for 6-9 month olds. And as you find foods that are non-reactive, you can start making combos.

Gluten (wheat, barley, etc), eggs, soy, meat and other potential allergens or harder-to-digest foods won't enter the mix until at least 1 year old or later.

Her first meal was...drum roll please....Swiss Chard. Steamed then run through the baby food mill. Yum.

Baby opened her mouth right away for the little spoon. Most of the food actually went into her mouth. She made some faces, some of it came back out of her mouth, but all in all, it was a pretty calm and fun experience.

This weekend....kale!

Other things on the list to introduce over the next few months (all run through the food mill and diluted with breastmilk or water):

Spinach
Pumpkin Seeds
Apricots
Bananas
Blueberries
Broccoli
Pumpkin
Peas
Rasberries
Green Beans

NG seems pretty game for more food. She has been downing over 36 ounces of formula and breastmilk per day (usually 2 oz. b-milk to every 4 oz. formula - my supply is pretty weak.)

Prepping the food and feeding her were the highlights of my day. It was a pretty bad day hormone/mood/emotion-wise. I found that I felt better when I focused solely on NG so that is what I did.