s/o first solid food

atlantic · April 2010

is there a book you recommend to navigate the "what, when, how much, etc." Bonus for recipes, as I'm thinking I might like to make ours (is this a bad idea for a full-time working mom with barely any extra time?) Our peds materials recommend Super Baby Food but I was immediately turned off when the amazon description said it was like a hefty encyclopedia. I need baby food for dummies.

And while on the topic, I had just kind of assumed everyone did the watery cereal first, so I was surprised by the post below. If you started with fruit or avocado - does it just have a thin enough consistency already, or do you thin it out somehow?

KittyFX · April 2010

MrsRosie:

https://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/

https://www.nurturebaby.com/

I have also used the above websites. I have the baby food bible and use it a lot. You can look up each ingredient and see if/when it is safe for baby. It is not an overwhelming encyclopedia. I bought it at 1/2 price books. I also have Dr. Sears's HappyBaby The Organic Guide to Baby's First 24 Months. I have Dr. Sears's Baby Book too which I'm sure has some food answers in it but I think wholesomebabyfood.com and the baby food bible have been what I have used the most.

smb29 · April 2010

Dh's aunt gave us the William Sonoma baby food cookbook and some silicone ice cube tray type things to freeze the food. Honestly, its really simple to make the early food purees. Generally steam or bake the food until its soft, throw it in the food processor or blender and you've got a puree. Some you might want to thicken with cereal, others you may want to thin with water or breast milk/formula. That is it. I do big batches every couple of weeks on Sundays. I'd start with the websites Rosie recommended before you go out and get a cookbook.

I've found that fruit is generally really thin once you steam it, so it should be fine for your baby. Things like banana or avocado you just mash up and its usually fine.

rssnlvr · April 2010

I also use the wholesomebabyfood website a lot. As for the avocado as her first food, we waited until about one week shy of six months before starting any solids at all. We weren't in a rush. Our pedi said if we waited that long, we didn't have to mess with rice cereal at all. We didn't do anything at all to the avocado. I mushed some up and fed it to her on a spoon. She liked it.

bobcatsteph · April 2010

We used the Wholesome Babyfood website. I work FT and had no problems making my own food. I would just make a bunch on Sunday afternoons. We made everything but green beans and peas..DD wouldn't eat the homemade stuff.
We tired cereal and DD wouldn't eat it so we moved on to sweet potatos and oatmeal. I just added water and made everything really runny at first.

lyndamf · April 2010

I got a baby cookbook and used it a little but mainly used wholesomebabyfood and nuturebaby. I also used the food list in Baby 411 to help me figure out what foods I could and couldn't give D to try and loved having that as a reference.

kiarox2002 · April 2010

I'm sure I'm the odd man out here, but we skipped purees all together. There's a great book called Baby Led which which we read, but unless you're a nerd like me you could probably just google "baby led weaning" and learn all about it without needing to buy the book.

We love it.

atlantic · April 2010

great recs, thank you so much!

HSartteach · April 2010

I also use the wholesome website. I work FT and have had only a few problems when I got lazy. But usually, things are good.

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