Double-Whammy Banan-y, Kiss the Cook!

Hello blogging world!  I've been thinking of starting a blog for a long time now but wondering if I had anything worth while to say.  I'm up against some steep family blog competition because two of my sister in-laws have really entertaining blogs (as well as some friend's pretty cool blogs).  So now that I have Red and I'm pretty much staying at home (except for a few hours of piano lessons each week), I think I'm ready to commit to the blogging world.  Plus, I think it will be a good way for me to stay connected to family and friends, and give me a way to document our family's life in more words than a FB post allows.

So here goes:  My first post is gonna be about this wonderful new book I purchased called :This is seriously a cool book.  I have been feeding Red "real" food since he was 4 months old, per his Pediatrician's advice.  In retrospect, I wished I waited longer because its hard to balance the introduction of foods while still maintaining interest in nursing.  But whatevah, its done now, right?  So anyway, I've been using my VitaMix like a Maniac Mom to puree up sweet potatoes, butternut squash, carrots, peas, bananas, acorn squash, pears, apples, etc.  But then I figured I better start giving him some meat purees - ewwwwww.  I'm not a big meat-eater, and by that I mean that I mostly just make chicken and turkey burger. I once made Swedish Meatballs using 3 different types of ground meat (hamburger, pork and veal I think) and in the process of making the meatballs, I decided I no longer even wanted to eat the meal I was cooking. Meat just kind of grosses me out sometimes.  Not all the time though because I will let you know that I eat Ribs at Chili's and burgers from Five Guys.  Go figure.

So annnnnyway, I tried putting chicken in the VitaMix and it looked disgusting and I fed it to Red anyway and he hated it.  So I decided to just go ahead and BUY (gasp!) some baby food jars that had meat in them since I don't think I'm going to do a great job with getting Red to eat whatever aweful meat concoctions I conjure up.  Well, let me tell you, that stuff smells like cat food.  And as Randy pointed out to me, "STALE CAT FOOD!"  (I don't know what stale cat food smells like, but you can just imagine!).  I feel like if the parent cannot taste-test the food without gagging, why would you want to give that to your baby?!!!

Back to square one.  I bought this book and have been trying the recipes out - LOVE them.  This morning, we had Double-Whammy Banan-y & Kiss-the-Cook Potato-Pear Puree.  YUM, both were delicious.  What I love about the book is not only the colorful photos of the finished products, but the fact that its broken down month by month on what to feed your baby and there's a checklist in the back of what you've tried and what the baby liked, didn't like, etc.  So anyway, I'll keep you posted on the meat situation when it arises, but for now its back to basics and using these cool combinations of purees and natural foods.  LOVE IT!

And just for fun, here are a few of my favorite pics of Red eating "real" food: