Nutrition

When feeding kids, the key is to be over prepared.

The first 6 months are easy. You have one fluid to feed your kid, and whether you use formula (easy way) or pre-pumped frozen breast milk (our way) or feeding the kid straight from the tap you just have to play a part.

Once you finish the milk, it’s time for solid foods.

My wife and I are both bio majors, and we’re both fairly thrifty. Holy cow, do those little nothing jars of smashed carrots cost a lot of money!

I said screw them, we can make this stuff ourselves.

It’s this easy…buy a can of peas, cook them, mash them somehow (time to clean out the margarita blender) and then pour the mess into ice cube trays. Put the frozen pea cubes into a freezer bag, and voila, you have food ready.

You start to get good at cooking frozen food…I found that for one ice cube of carrots, 27 seconds on high got them perfect. Maybe you don’t have to be quite the arithmomaniac (it’s a real term, look it up) but you can get quite efficient at this.

We did this with carrots, peas, squash, pumpkin, sweet potato. When she got bored with some, we tried mixing some here, adding some there. I found that sweet potato, squash, and a spoonful of applesauce went down the best. Eventually (look online for the rules of what/when to feed them stuff, I just listened to my wife) we added ground turkey frozen cubes.

We’re still using ice cubes to feed our little girl, but now we’re just taking leftovers and ice cubing it. I have lots of hash brown casserole, macaroni & cheese, spaghetti, and lots of other stuff mashed into ice cube form ready to be eaten.

This stuff helps, especially when Mom’s travelling, because babies cannot live on Spaghetti-o’s and toaster strudel alone, trust me.

I’m not one of those organic food types, but I guess if you were it would make it easier to shelter your child against all of those harmful things…

Here's a link to a website that tells you what food you can feed what age baby.
http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/solids.htm

Get creative, your baby will eat things together that you would never imagine.