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kpearse99 · January 2013

This is probably silly, but is all squash kind of the same?

Yellow squash, summer squash, acorn squash...etc...

Do I need to introduce them one at a time or once DS has squash, is he safe to have the others??

Why are there so many! lol

elampl · January 2013

For no scientific reason whatsoever I viewed summer squash and zucchini separately from all winter squash. But I treated all winter squash (butternut sugar acorn ) as the same and didn't do a waiting period. That being said I haven't been extremely diligent about the four day waiting period

kpearse99 · January 2013

elampl:
For no scientific reason whatsoever I viewed summer squash and zucchini separately from all winter squash. But I treated all winter squash (butternut sugar acorn ) as the same and didn't do a waiting period. That being said I haven't been extremely diligent about the four day waiting period

Oh my, there are soooo many different kinds! Much more than I thought I'll see if anyone else replys, otherwise I may do the same as you... thanks!

Babybear70 · January 2013

Yellow squash and zucchini are considered summer squash meaning they don't have a hard exterior shell around them. They are a softer squash, and don't keep well. Winter type squash (Acorn, Spaghetti, butternut) all have a hard exterior shell and can keep for many months in a cool dry basement or vegetable storage container. Most often summer squash are grilled or sauted for us to eat, while any of the winter squashes need to be roasted. But you can do exactly as elampl has said and treat them only as two different kinds. Summer and winter. All summers grow similarly, and all winters grow similarly. My DS loves squash!! I mainly do butternut. It isn't quite as stringy as acorn, and well spaghetti squash looks just like it sounds...spaghetti! But still very good!!

kpearse99 · January 2013

Babybear70:
Yellow squash and zucchini are considered summer squash meaning they don't have a hard exterior shell around them. They are a softer squash, and don't keep well. Winter type squash (Acorn, Spaghetti, butternut) all have a hard exterior shell and can keep for many months in a cool dry basement or vegetable storage container. Most often summer squash are grilled or sauted for us to eat, while any of the winter squashes need to be roasted. But you can do exactly as elampl has said and treat them only as two different kinds. Summer and winter. All summers grow similarly, and all winters grow similarly. My DS loves squash!! I mainly do butternut. It isn't quite as stringy as acorn, and well spaghetti squash looks just like it sounds...spaghetti! But still very good!!

Wow! Thank you Let me get this straight though....

Yellow squash and Zucchini are basically the same and I only need to do a 4 day waiting period for one of them? Then he can have the other....

Butternut, acorn and spaghetti can all be treated like one as well... do a 4 day waiting period for one time and then we are good to go for the rest?

Thanks so much ladies!!

Babybear70 · January 2013

klasala318:
Babybear70:
Yellow squash and zucchini are considered summer squash meaning they don't have a hard exterior shell around them. They are a softer squash, and don't keep well. Winter type squash (Acorn, Spaghetti, butternut) all have a hard exterior shell and can keep for many months in a cool dry basement or vegetable storage container. Most often summer squash are grilled or sauted for us to eat, while any of the winter squashes need to be roasted. But you can do exactly as elampl has said and treat them only as two different kinds. Summer and winter. All summers grow similarly, and all winters grow similarly. My DS loves squash!! I mainly do butternut. It isn't quite as stringy as acorn, and well spaghetti squash looks just like it sounds...spaghetti! But still very good!!

Wow! Thank you Let me get this straight though....

Yellow squash and Zucchini are basically the same and I only need to do a 4 day waiting period for one of them? Then he can have the other....

Butternut, acorn and spaghetti can all be treated like one as well... do a 4 day waiting period for one time and then we are good to go for the rest?

Thanks so much ladies!!

Exactly! If by chance, your son shows a reaction to one "group of squash" then I would break them out into individual squashes (feed yellow squash first then zucchini for instance) to see which one is doing it. But my guess is you won't see a reaction with either group of squash. One 4-day waiting period for each group would be fine.

Although if you are like me, that was way too long of a time and I felt like we were spinning our wheels, so I just did what I wanted to do and then back tracked if we had a problem.

giraffe54 · January 2013

Other ladies have set you on the right course with respect to summer and winter.

My only advice is that butternut squash is by far the easiest to peel and chop and thus to prepare. I love acorn & buttercup squash, but unless you are roasting it ahead of time, peeling those kinds are tough. Spaghetti squash is awesome but stringy - like spaghetti so unless you are doing BLW, you probably want to stick to butternut. And if you are doing BLW, roasted butternut squash fingers with a bit of mild curry powder is my LO's absolute favorite food to date.

danslilgrizzly · January 2013

I agree with everything mentioned by previous posters. But wanted to add that to get around peeling and cutting the hard winter squashes, it's easiest to just throw them in the oven to roast while you go about doing other things and then when they are nice and tender remove them from the oven, scoop out the flesh and puree or mash. Very easy and delicious.

kpearse99 · January 2013

Thanks for all the advice and help

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