Homemade Baby Food

Eli has been ready to eat baby food for a while now.

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But every time I feed him the store bought stuff {which has only been like 4 times} he seems to get a weird rashy place on his face.

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So, I decided I should stop torturing my child with yucky baby food and make him some homemade stuff instead.

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I looked for some 'recipes' for homemade baby food online, but all I found were a few sites that told you to peel, core, slice, boil, and puree the apples. I may not be a cooking genius, but I kinda already knew to do that part....I guess I just wanted to make sure I was doing it right!

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I picked up a 5 pound bag of apples at the store yesterday and started working on my first attempt at applesauce around 5 yesterday afternoon.

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Eli was hanging out in the stroller watching me prep the apples.

I put the applesauce in some glass container and then stuck all but one of them in the freezer for later. This morning I tried to feed Eli some of the applesauce, but he wasn't too impressed. He actually gagged a few times, so I think that the applesauce may be too thick. I guess I will have to either thin it out a little bit or try to process it a little more to make it smoother.
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While we were waiting on the apples to cool a little, I made him some bananas {which he really liked!!}. The bananas were a lot easier to make because all you have to do is process them {no peeling, chopping, or cooking}. Eli may be eating a lot of bananas especially if he keeps gagging on my applesauce!!

Wordless Wednesday

Not Me! Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

I did NOT spend all week at Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida.

It was NOT super cold all week, and it definitely wasn’t record low temperature for Florida.

I did NOT eat way too much junk food and way too many sweets. I would never do that. I always eat healthy salads and fruit, always. No chocolate chip cookies, caramel apples, rice crispy Mickey’s, or ice cream for me. Never.

I did NOT bribe my kids to get them on rides at Disney World that they were scared to ride on. {They DID have fun once they got on the rides!!}

I did NOT wear shorts this week in 30-degree weather, hoping that it would ‘magically’ get warmer than the weatherman said it would.

I did NOT pay $20 to get the boys’ faces painted at the Magic Kingdom. I would never spend that much money on a little bit of face paint just because we had an hour to kill before our reservation for dinner.

I was NOT super ready to come home by the end of the week.