Day 1- 365 days of photography

I'm *attempting* to try this.  One photo for every day of the year.  It's a cool idea, I'm just not sure I can keep it up... plus, my life just isn't that interesting.  We'll see.

Day #1, January 1, 2011
New on the menu GREEN BEANS, yum!  :/  You can't really see the color in this picture (because my WB was set incorrectly), but these beans are GREEEEN.  Ugh.  It looked like radioactive juice or something.

 

I had decided, before Sofia was born, that I was going to try making our own baby food.  So far it's been pretty easy.  I've got Butternut Squash, Sweet Potato, Pear, Applesauce, Mango, and now Green Beans all packaged up in the freezer.  I would say, for 3 separate attempts, I have about 90 servings of food for about $7!  So far her favorites have been the sweet potato and squash.  The fruit doesn't seem to tickle her palate as much.

On the road to solids

We've been bad.  The hubs and I have kind of put off starting Sofia on solid foods.  We tried rice cereal a while ago, but just never kept up with it.  Since I'm home for two weeks I decided that now would be a great time to get into the habit of at least *trying* to get her to eat something.  Also, I was wanting to make my own baby food rather than buy the cans.  Therefore, I needed a little time to figure all that out without the stress of work.

Three nights ago I made her sweet potatoes.  SUCCESS!  The first solid food that she really seemed to enjoy (other than rice cereal).  We had tried banana, no go.  Then avocado, that was OK, but not her favorite.  After that applesauce.  She hated that, she would gag and then spit it out.  I baked up some sweet potato pureed it and she went to town...

 

Last night I made up some pears and butternut squash.   I'm interested to see if she'll eat the pears.  She might just not like fruit.  Which would be sad for me (because I love fruit and don't really like veggies) but good for her.  

I'm so glad that I chose to make our own food.  It's so much cheaper and REALLY easy.  Especially at this stage when you're not really suppose to add too many, if any, spices.  It's just a matter of cooking and then pureeing the foods you want to feed her.  And if it's something like avocado, you don't even have to cook it.  If you're interested in making your own, I used this website.  It's very helpful, informative, and has easy recipes.