Make 16 Meals!!

Using a handful of fresh green beans, 15 mini carrots and 1/4 bag of frozen green peas. Steam each vegetable in a bamboo steamer (or other steamer), just until tender...don't steam all the nutrients out. Use your handy food processor or blender to puree the vegetable until smooth, adding 1/4 c. to 1/2 cup of water to help with consistency. Notice how bright and vibrant the colors of the purees are!

Use a tablespoon to spoon the vegetable puree into an ice cube tray. Once frozen, pop the cubes out and put them into freezer bags or other containers to store until you need them. Take a cube out about 12 hours before you need it to defrost in the refrigerator, or put the cube in a bowl and run it under warm water if you're in a hurry.

I've been using this website Wholesome Baby Food as a general guide to know how to prepare baby food and what kinds of fruits and vegetables are safe to introduce at which ages.

As a side note, I read up on the nitrates in carrots AFTER preparing the carrots. It is not recommended to give carrots to children under 6-8 months due to the very slight possibility of nitrate poisoning. But at least they are frozen and can stay put until we need them.

Walker and I went out to dinner last night and took Rémy with us. We toted along her bowls of rice cereal and one of the green beans I pureed earlier in the day. She ate the entire bowl of rice cereal and half the green beans, while we ate our fajitas. She didn't dislike it, but it will take her some getting used to I'm sure. Unfortunately, we forgot to bring along the camera for her first green beans moment...but we'll definitely snap a shot at dinner tonight.

If you are debating what kind of fruit or vegetable you'd like your child to try first consider this. Almost all infants will instantly love fruits and any yellow or orange vegetable simply because they are sweet. If you feed them some of the green or unsweet vegetables first and then give them the sweet ones later, they may not get so disgusted over the unsweet ones and are more apt to tolerate vegetables. I'm not sure if this has any truth to it, but it makes sense and it's what I've heard other parents say worked for them. I'll let ya know how it works out.