Scout has been eating more and more finger foods, but she still loves her purees. Baby food is freaking expensive now that my little darling is eating sometimes 2 whole jars per meal. (in addition to her many handfuls of puffed brown rice and the bits of food I give her off of my plate) Oink, oink!

So, I decided to make some baby food this evening. I made sweet potatoes, acorn squash, carrots, and rotini w/ marinara and chicken. I'm going to make some green vegetables tomorrow. I also plan on making chicken and brown rice w/ chunks of carrot. I froze the food in ice trays, then popped the cubes into freezer baggies.

I think she'll really like the rotini. I put some organic spaghetti sauce and chunks of all-natural chicken into the food processor and pulsed it a few times to make the chicken chunks a little smaller. Then, I added some cooked whole wheat rotini and pulsed it a couple more times. The noodles are big enough for her to pick up w/ her fingers, but not so big that they'd be a choking hazard.

She's got 6 teeth now (wow!) and is very good at chewing, so I'm getting a lot less paranoid about choking. (but I'm still very careful about what I give her)

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