[blparent] Making your own baby food?

[Leanne Merren]

It has a mesh bag that you can put fresh fruit or veggie in, and they child 
can hold on to it and chew on the mesh.  That way they get all the food out 
of it without getting any large pieces that they might choke on.  It's 
excellent for teething, for fine motor skills and a sense of independence. 
My girls both loved it.  I just soaked the mesh in some water and dish soap 
and then turned it inside out and scrubbed it.  It always came clean for me. 
It can also go in the dishwasher on the top rack.
I also used the food dispensing spoon with Kaelyn, and that was amazing.  No 
mess of scooping food out of a bowl, because I found that most of the mess 
came from the bottom of the spoon, or the spoon being over filled.  With the 
Boone spoon, you can use just one finger to see how much you are squeezing 
onto the spoon, so your hands don't get so messy.  Since you have to use 
your hands to know where the baby is a lot of the time to get it into their 
mouth, that helps a lot.  When I went to Dallas when Kaelyn was 7 months 
old, I just filled the spoon with pureed avocado, which she really liked, 
and I kept that in a cooler on the way there (it passed through security 
just fine in a plastic bag), and then I kept it in the fridge in our room. 
Since you're not scooping anything out of it you're not adding bacteria to 
it, so you can save the food in it.  I'm a traveling mom so I loved it.  I 
just bought all travel stuff for my sister in law for her shower this 
weekend.  I got her the spoon, some sippy grips to attach cups to the 
stroller, wipes for baby's hands and face, a California Baby gift set and 
the Take and Toss variety pack from First Years.  I would have gotten her 
the Bibsters (disposable bibs) and Place Mats that stick to the table but 
Target didn't have them in stock online.  We travel all the time, and I use 
all of these things.
Leanne
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Miranda Borka" <knownoflove at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 5:40 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Making your own baby food?


> Hi Leanne,
> Can you tell me about the Fresh Food Feeder?
> Thanks, and have a great day!
>
> In Christ, Miranda
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leanne Merren <leemer02 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 12:36 AM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Making your own baby food?
>
> Miranda,
> I used jar baby food from the store with my first, and bought a bunch of 
> it
> for my second child and she wouldn't touch it.  She spit it out and turned
> her head and wanted nothing to do with it.  So I went straight to a fresh
> food feeder, and then to table foods with her.  With my third I never 
> bought
> baby food.  I did puree some with my blender, but not much.  I mostly did
> cereal, and some pureed avocado and pears, at first, at around 6 months, 
> but
> not all the time because my pediatrician didn't want me to start solids 
> till
> 9 months.  So at 9 months I started with the fresh food feeder again and
> table foods.  I fed them things like apple sauce, mashed potatoes, banana,
> toast, yogurt (Yo Baby is great for infants)...  As they got older I moved
> on to noodles, small pieces of fruit or cooked veggie, cereal...  Oh and 
> the
> Gerber puffs.  I started some of those around 6 months and she started
> feeding herself those at 7 months, so she did have those quite a bit 
> before
> 9 months.  But she was still nursing so that was where she got most of her
> nutrition.  If she had been formula fed I would have given more formula 
> than
> solid food until a year.  I don't think there's anything wrong with buying
> baby food, I just felt like I wasted a lot of it if he didn't finish the
> whole jar, or if he didn't like the food, whereas if I made my own I could
> try pureeing just a little bit and not waste a bunch of it.  I also used
> tips from the site that Dena suggested.
> Leanne
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Miranda Borka" <knownoflove at gmail.com>
> To: "Blind Parents" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 7:56 AM
> Subject: [blparent] Making your own baby food?
>
>
>> Hi,
>> Do any of you blend solid foods to make your own baby food rather than
>> buying it from the stores?
>> If so, what are your experiences?
>> Thanks, and have a great week!
>>
>> In Christ, Miranda
>>
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