Title: Baby Vegies
Categories: Baby
Yield: 1 Servings

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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