Avocado, Sweet Potato

[houseofdixon]

Anybody doing avocados or sweet potatoes or the like as baby foods? We've really been trying to do "real" foods instead of those prepackaged baby foods. They taste pretty good and it's easy to make. Plus you know exactly what nutrients your kid is getting.

Does anybody have any tips for expanding that to new foods or different preparation methods? I can use all the help/ideas i can get.

[wright1212]

you sound like me 7 years ago... I was so motivated to find out everything about infant/toddler nutrition before my son was needing it. I did find out alot, but it was reading a big variety of source too.
1. Of course learn the rules such as no fish, nuts, grapes, popcorn, honey under 1
2. you have it just right with lots of natural foods

I dont know the age of your child but start with bland veggies working your way down to dark fruits then meat then grain. My family dinner rule, besides we all eat together, is we mostly serve 1 meat and 2 veggies. One veggie is green, one is starchy. When my newborn is about 9 months old I will begin giving him a version of our dinners with no seasoning. Like boiling carrots and mashing. Avacados are wonderful as well as sweet potatoes. For over 18 months you can even fry thin avacado slices in peanut oil to makes chips. I finish them in the oven to add more crunch. I am also investing in a quality food processor to make great baby food. I LOVE the new cute mesh bag attached to a little passy clip at all the stores. This is great for teething babies too. Just put really cold fruit and they can chew on it and get the good stuff out too! Wonderful.

[NCmom09]

This is a little behind from the original post but we give our son all home-made food with the exception of carrots because of the nitrates. We steam vegetables and blend them in a blender. Fruits are peeled and put in the blender without cooking. We started out with sweet potatoes and avocados. He now gets a variety of purple yams, sweet potatoes, avocados, papayas, bananas, mangoes, winter squash, peas, and green beans. A good book that helped us was Super Baby Foods. It gave a pretty good guideline as to what age was best for which foods as their digestive system changes over time.

[juarez49]

www.wholesomebabyfood.com

[dd]

I LOVE the new cute mesh bag attached to a little passy clip at all the stores. This is great for teething babies too. Just put really cold fruit and they can chew on it and get the good stuff out too! Wonderful.

Those also make great "popsicle" holders. When my daughter was teething she liked sucking on an ice cube out of one of those. Now that's she's a toddler sometimes I give her frozen orange juice or frozen smoothie out of an ice cube tray. She LOVES it!

[dessydell]

Sweet potatoes are the best baby food which is better than packet food because sweet potato contains lots of vitamins and nutrition label that helps baby to grow up. Generally after 7 or 8 months you can give this kind of avocado and sweet potato kind of solid food.