Thursday, April 9, 2009
Green peas, anyone?
We have been rocking right along with trying all of the 1st foods from Gerber. Things have been going brilliantly. I have been wondering if I was feeding them anything they didn't care for because they seem to take everything right on in every night. Tonight was night 3 of green peas. They are fairly disgusting looking. They are not nice and smooth like our other 1st foods. They are lumpy and smell pretty bad. Both babies had tolerated them, though. I have read and been told that you often have to try a food 11-15 times before they really like it. Well, TOO BAD, people! There will be no more green peas in our house. Tonight, Rush just held them out on his tongue refusing to close his mouth. He just stared at me with green peas sitting on his tongue like he was saying, "Would you eat this? Look at it! Would you eat it, Mama?" So we finished up with applesauce and cereal so I could move on to SF. So, I put that little cutie right on in the high chair. She never really opens up wide, but she is steady when she eats. So, I started with a bite of peas. They sent chills down her tiny little spine. She shivered, her eyes watered. Eleven to fifteen times, right? So, I proceed with bite two. Full on GAG! And then another GAG... and then another GAG. Her eyes started to turn red around the edges and gagging was coming over and over. I started to slightly panic because I thought she couldn't breathe. That problem was solved, however, when she projectile vomited peas and 3:00 bottle all over the high chair and me. This post will be picture free because we don't take pictures of such things. I could take a picture of the disgusting bib sitting on the washing machine waiting to be washed before bed, but I will spare you. So, does anyone need any green peas? I have a spare jar or five.
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Yuck, yuck, yuck! I could not handle green peas either! Still can't! :)
ha! I used to make my baby food for Shep - it was not such a big deal, I actually enjoyed it. I had a great book called Mommy Made that told you how to do it in the microwave, so on a Sunday afternoon I would just make and freeze like a months worth of food. Anyway, you can make peas SO easy and they are so good for them. Just boil some frozen peas on the stove, and put them in the food processor or blender. Add just enough water to make the the right consistency. Then put them in old baby food jars and put them in your freezer. Voila! If you boil some chicken breasts, you can throw those in the blender as well and then you have a meal. You could even mix them with bananas or something - babies will eat almost anything. I used to make butternut squash in the microwave and mix the squash and the peas - I swear, I am not a pea fan but with squash it was so good, I ate half of it myself.
Another great mom trick - once they start eating finger food, put them in their high chair and pour green peas straight out of the freezer and let them eat them. When they are frozen, they are so sweet they taste like candy.
:)
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