Homemade Baby Food - Just like mamma used to make ...

Well, sort of. That's a small exaggeration but I do come from a time when a lot of the old ways of child rearing were still in practice. My mother cloth diapered me and made my first bites of grub with her own hands. Im just not sure it was anything at all like this.

C.M. is already way more crunchy than I am. She takes the time out to do a ton of research anyway and her wanderings around the web led her to Baby Led Weaning.

Brilliant! let's do it.

Over the weeks leading up to Zelda's sixth month we introduced bits of banana and tastes of avocado but she was never really here or there with either. Some days she'd eat a few bites, other days it just wound up on her chin, chest, my shirt, the floor. So, I figured she just wasn't ready. The interest in food was there. The curiosity about eating had taken a firm hold but she was really very meh about the whole thing. Until last night.

Last night for dinner C.M. made a whole chicken. (When she makes a ham, or chicken like that I always try to make a soup stock out of the remains for future dinners.)

After everyone had eaten I was standing with Zelda picking at the carcass, like I do. Zelda showed an interest in what I was eating so I mashed up some of the meat from the bottom and gave her a taste. It went over like gangbusters. She loved the chicken and the broccoli florets too!

Yay! The baby is leading the charge. Any boy did she. She ate and ate, giving little signs that she wanted more and of which. When she'd had enough she let me know that too. It had begun and while I boiled that chicken down into a yummy broth I plotted my first baby food, Chicken and Broccoli.

C.M. squashed the broccoli part, she thinks it made for an upset tummy,  so I wound up just making pureed chicken.

Chicken Baby Food

Ingredients:
Chicken
Chicken Broth
Mothers Milk
Love

Zelda really prefers the finger mashed chicken bits, which she ate more of while I worked on the baby food, and she prefers to eat from my fingers rather than the spoon but it's a start. We'll see how it goes from here but there are plenty of foods that she can be slowly introduced to from here on out. I'm excited as I can be about this new adventure.

For more baby food recipes check out this BLW site.

Update:

The baby food went over very well. The little one caught the itus.
Well
And Hummm...