Tips/ books/recipes etc for making homemade baby food - Page 2

[BirthIsAwesome]

cool! Thanks so much! 

[Sharon Sarles]

Oh gosh. Well I think I got it at Wheatsville Food Co-0p.  But I don't think that helps you. So I'm checking online.

I tried to give you a link, but I'm not being successful at that. I see that Kidco makes a little hand crank food grinder (F700) that is sold at Amazon. That is what mine looks like . A quick search shows that there are several companies making them. I apologize I can not tell you which brand we had. Anyway, hope this helps. Thanks for asking!

[Sharon Sarles]

Yep. Me too. I took the best table food, ground it at the table and fed it on the spot. Sweet potato is very nurtitious. Today I would work harder on getting some greens in. Then I liked oatmeal. Today I wouldn't do potato, as I did then. I knew it was easy to digest, but now I know that it is very high on the glycemic index. I never made baby food ahead because I thought that was lower quality.  I didn't even worry too much about balancing, because she was mostly nursing. Then when she was eating only food, she was eating regular food in the regular way, so she ate what the family ate.

I didn't worry so much about allergens because I was not introducing them TOO EARLY -- which I think is a root cause for ALLERGIES. You see, I nursed, and so my child was not into foods until months later than everyone else I knew. I think adult allergies are often caused by introducing common foods like wheat & corn too early.  

Other allergies are idiosyncratic to the person. I have a friend whose child gets cranky, irritable, and has hives if he eats any bannana, but my child never did. So I just watched to see the result.

Today, there are more concerns. Celiac disease and digestive problems with autism. My understanding is that that is not the problem of the food inherently, but a weakness in the digestive track (methionine uptake?).  However, given that our society eats way too much wheat and dairy, maybe restraint is a good thing anyway.

Don't know if this is a worry among young mothers today, but the whole low fat thing was nuts when I was at this stage. Everybody was buying skim milk for their babies. Makes no sense to me. Breast milk is fairly high fat. I want that child to get enough good fat to build a good brain. So I never went along with the low fat thing. (And btw, my daugther never had an extra ounce on her. And beautiful and smart too, but I'm the mom. LOL)

[bdoody11]

I started out making the baby food for DD#2. I bought Cooking for Baby: Wholesome, Homemade, Delicious Foods for 6 to 18 Months by Lisa Barnes. I like the book and made one batch of food. It turns out my DD doesn't really like purees. I've started BLW and it is so much easier! Basically, I just feed her what we're eating.