{"id":5321,"date":"2014-07-11T08:37:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T12:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=5321"},"modified":"2014-07-11T08:44:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T12:44:56","slug":"prepping-purees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/11\/prepping-purees\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepping Purees"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Doodle started solids, I started keeping fruits and vegetables cut up and ready to eat in the freezer.\u00a0 I made squash risotto and threw some into the freezer for Doodle to have another time and it reminded me why I chose to skip spoon-feeding altogether<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prepping a food for Doodle looks something like this:<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>Peel, chunk, bag, freeze.<\/p>\n

When it\u2019s time to eat it, throw it in a measuring cup with water and microwave (or boil on the stove) until soft.\u00a0 Serve directly on the highchair tray.<\/p>\n

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With Sugarplum and Honeybun I went the traditional route of spoon feeding the first few months of solids.\u00a0 Honeybun was easy, her food prep looked like this:<\/p>\n

\"0322141733\"<\/a>Buy. Open. Feed.<\/p>\n

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But being in Ireland with Sugarplum, the selection of jarred food wasn\u2019t as great plus I had more time to prepare food at home (which I didn\u2019t have with Honeybun while working 4 jobs).\u00a0 I painstakingly homemade nearly all of Sugaprlum\u2019s food.\u00a0 Prepping her food looked something like this:<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>Peel, chunk, cook, puree in the blender, spoon into ice cube trays, freeze, remove from ice cube trays (so I could use them for the next food). Then there was all the clean-up of the extra supplies.<\/p>\n

When it was time to feed her I then had to microwave a few cubes, stir, heat, stir, heat, stir. \u00a0\u00a0Get it all melted but don\u2019t get it too hot! \u00a0Then sit with the bowl and spoon and painstakingly feed her and her crazy lizard tongue.<\/p>\n

While going straight to finger foods has been great and made life a lot easier and happier for the whole family, there are some negatives to the process.<\/p>\n