Potatoes!

Today we fed the Dude white organic potatoes.My mom made the food again, same as with the congee, but instead of rice, she put potatoes in. I had to use the hand blender to chop up the peas to smaller pieces, otherwise he couldn't eat them.

This is the first time he's had food that wasn't runny, other than banana, and he's had a bit of a hard time with the consistency of the food. While it's mushy like a banana, it's not as sweet, or as slimy. He choked on it several times, although it may also have been the bits of peas and chicken in it as well. Needless to say, he wasn't terribly impressed with his food, and ended up only eating half of it. But my main concern is that he allergic or react to the potato, so he's going to have to put up with more potato the next couple of days. Saturday we're having turkey Christmas dinner, so yep, the Dude will be getting potato and turkey. Good times!

Breakfast: Earth's Best Apples and Peaches Oatmeal with Olympic Organic Yoghurt
Lunch: Leftover Chicken and Peas Congee
Dinner: Chicken, peas and potato

Turkey and Yoghurt

So I've been a little behind updating this blog. First, the Dude's food.

We tried turkey, and it was a huge success. In particular, PC Organicis Pureed Mixed Vegetables (Green Beans and Carrots) and Organic Turkey. The Dude wasn't too keen on eating this at room temperature, but took to it well when it was warmed up. He had it for dinner tonight, and we had a virtually non-fuss dinnertime. It was a real treat for me not to have to bribe him to eat, or even better, to have the food spat back in my face.

The other new thing that he's been trying is yoghurt. I bought some Olympia brand Plain 3.5% Yogurt and mixed it with some of the Blueberries and Pears. The Dude didn't really like it that much, but my main thing is that he doesn't react to it. So far, so go. I actually was racking my brains as to how to feed yoghurt to him, then realised that they usually mix some sort of fruit flavour in with plain yoghurt, and that's how I normally eat it. Duh!

Speaking of blueberries, it doesn't look like he's reacted to it, so that's good. I'm still keeping an eye on it, but so far, so good.

Second, I actually made a dish of scalloped potatoes a couple of nights ago for a Christmas party potluck. It turned out okay, but I was quite frustrated with the process. But that's for another blog post.

Congee!

Today we fed the Dude congee (rice porridge for those of you who don't know what congee is). My mom made the congee, so I can't claim that I cooked it. She put in small chunks of organic chicken and carrots into the congee. She used organic white rice that I had bought a couple weeks ago. The Dude seemed to like it enough, although I didn't feed him the chicken, he's not able to chew and swallow that yet. However, the rice grains and carrots were mushy enough for him to eat and swallow, although the lumpiness of the food took a little getting used to. Also tried giving him water with a sippy cup, he wasn't too gung ho about that, but we'll try again.

Breakfast: Homemade applesauce with oatmeal cereal
Lunch: Mushy banana
Dinner: Congee with chicken and carrot

Blueberries!

Today the Dude had blueberries for the first time. I'm not certain if he really liked it as I wasn't feeding him. However, I noticed tonight that his eczema's flared up again. I'm really hoping it's the cold weather we're having and not the blueberries.

Breakfast: PC Organics Blueberries and Pears
Lunch: Mashed Organic Banana
Dinner: Leftover (1/2) Sweet Potato (My Organic Baby brand), (1/4) Carrot - home made, (1/4) Zucchini - home made, thickened with organic rice cereal.

I'm thinking that the Dude doesn't like the My Organic Baby Brand, so I'm going to give that a pass for sweet potato.

Carrots

Today I made more carrots. I also realised that I didn't feed the Dude and cereal, doh!

Breakfast: Apples and Apricots (jarred)
Lunch: Banana
Dinner: Chicken and Sweet Potato (jarred)

Chicken!!

So yesterday BabyL tried his first protein (not including formula of course): Chicken! I gave him President's Choice Strained and Pureed Organic Chicken and Organic Sweet Potato. He seemed to like it, and more importantly, hasn't shown a reaction yet, so this is good.

Today's menu:
- Breakfast: Homemade Applesauce and Oatmeal
- Lunch: Banana
- Dinner: Leftover Chicken, Sweet Potato and Zuchinni