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Title: Baby Vegies
Yield: 1 Servings

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Greeting! So your little one is starting solids. It is a very
interesting
time, and lasts a lot shorter than the commercials seem to make you
think! I do licensed day care in my home, so it seems that I am
always
feeding baby food to someone! Being naturally cheap, I make my
own.
Here is the recipe: Buy canned vegetables (no-salt variety).
Smoosh.
Add baby cereal to thicken. Add formula if too thick. Feed to
baby.
Clean baby. Clean highchair. Clean floor. Etc. Etc.

Seriously, I have made my own with frozen veggies (that is what I
feed
the rest of the kids), but especially at the beginning, the canned
ones
seem to puree smoother. The texture, how much your puree,
depends on
the age. At the beginning, they need to be real smooth. Later you
can
leave some lumps. I do fruits the same way, using
canned-in-pear-juice
fruits. I don't feed the kids the cutsie baby-food desserts. They
are mostly sugar and tapioca. If you start kids off at a young age
with no-sugar fruits, non sugar-ladened cereals (corn flakes, rice
krispies, etc.), juice instead of kool-aid, etc., they grow-up
thinking
this is how everybody eats. It won't last forever, but it is nice
while it lasts!
One more comment, and there several people on this echo that will
disagree with me, but in the 9 years that I have been feeding
babies, I
never figured
out how to make my own baby-food meats. That is the one thing
that I
buy, mostly because I feel that it is very important for the kids
to
get the protein. Some kids will eat this stuff, and others won't.
If
your's won't eat the meat, give me a holler, I have a few tricks
for
you!

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