Food Friday - Top 10 Baby Foods

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Feeding my daughter nutritious foods has always been a really big deal to me.  Felicity was willing to eat anything as a baby, some of her favs have been, avacado (this was the first food she ever ate), cabbage, spinach, steamed broccoli, salmon and all kinds of other things.  Here is Felicity eating beeets when she was 7 months old.

Felicity actually loved avacado so much as a baby that the only way she would eat baby cereal was if it was mixed with avacado and fed to her out of the avacado shell.  Here's a pic of her from the first time she ever tried to feed herself an avacado, which mostly ended up squashed all over her face!

Anyway, one of the things I found a while back that has helped direct me on what foods to feed Felicity is a list published by  the BabyCenter.com Medical Advisory Board of the Top 10 Baby Foods.  Here it is:

TOP TEN FOODS FOR BABIES

 Squash

 Lentils

 Dark Green Leafy Vegetables

 Blueberries

 Avacados

 Meat

 Prunes

 Garbanzo Beans

 Mandarin Oranges

 Broccoli

(Felicity eating rasberries and cheerios)

I can proudly report Felicity liked all of the foods from their list except oranges, she's not a big citrus fan.  I would steam the foods then mash them up into mush when she was really little but by the time she was 9 months she could do chunks of food on her own as long as the were steamed really well.  I have never had a fancy steamer.  I just use a little metal steamer thing that sits inside of a pot - I got it from Wal Mart (think it cost about $8) and it has gotten a ton of use.  We still use it almost everyday to steam her vegetables.

(more recent pic of Felicity chowing down on avacado and tomato)

Anyway, I hope you find the BabyCenter.com's food list helpful - they are a great resource anytime you are researching anything to do with babies.  Some other resources I've found helpful are AskDrSears.com and WhatToExpect.com - I also have found many wonderful books, I will have to dig around and find them all and will post the info on them later... most of them are boxed up or loaned out to other people right now.

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Food Friday - Reese's Banana & Rolled Eggs

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Now onto Food Friday where I love to feature awesome food find that are always easy to prepare and at least "somewhat" healthy.

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When I saw these Frozen Reese's Bananas on RealSimple I had to try them immediately and I was not disappointed.  It's so easy:
1)Cut banana in half and freeze  2)Chop up some Reese's and freeze them too 3)then take the banana out of freezer and dip it in melted chocolate (I used some cheap baker's chocolate) and then immediately cover in the chopped up frozen Reese's  4) Set out on parchment until the chocolate has gotten firm

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This week I also found this Rolled Egg & Spinach Omlet on Martha Stewart's website.  It looks super healthy, delicious and simple enough to make.  I will certainly be trying it soon.  Click Here to get the recipe.

Last, I can't resist sharing this pic of my mom's 6 months old Boxer - his name is Harley.

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As my Mom said when she posted this pic on Facebook, "Harley spent the day at the Vet's office & he is now pouting because he will never be a Father."  Harley is a good dog, as are most Boxers.  We had two when I was in high school and they were both really lovable, goofy dogs. 

Coming up over the next few days: Pics of my house decorated for Valentine's Day & Super Simple, Cheap & Adorable Handmade Valentine's Day Cards

Food Friday - Simple Treats

I recently discovered a few spectacular simple treats I must share.

Dip strawberries in yogurt and freeze.  This came from Glamour magazine and it's so good.  Would be great for a party, although I just stuffed my face with them while working on some orders.

This next idea is from Southern Living Magazine and I haven't tried yet but deffinitely will soon. Fruity Popsicles in Champagne.  Yummmm!

This last treat I wish I would not have discovered because I am now addicted!  These are Chocolate Paninis from Real Simple Magaine and they are amazing.  To make them even better and maybe slightly healthier I use whole grain bread filled with Nutella and add a layer of pureed fruit (strawberries, rasberries and blackberries) and then grill it in a skillet.

-Pamela

Food Friday - Berries & Avacado

First I have to say.... HAPPY VETERANS DAY to my amazing husband (Veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps) and all the other brave men and women who step up to serve our country!

Now on to food.....
My eating habits are not perfect but nutrition is a pretty big deal to me.  White flour and white bread are not allowed in my house, I don't have any white refined sugar in my cabinets and things like crisco and margarine are banned from my kitchen. 

I appreciate simple (if it has more than 8 ingredients I probably won't cook it) and healthy foods.  Although I often indulge in stuff I shouldn't eat!

Berries with Balsamic Vinegar & Brown Sugar
This is my new fav snack when I'm craving something sweet.  I got this from Martha Stewart's website a while back and love it.  You just throw together whatever berries you have and sprinkle with a little brown sugar and toss with a very small amount of balsamic vinegar.

I love avacados and am always trying to find something new to do with them.  Last night I put together this simple little toasted meal.  I put some swiss cheese, avacado and sliced tomatoes on whole grain bread then put it in the oven until the bread was lightly toasted and everything was warm and delicious!

Here's Felicity eating her avacado and tomatoes.  She loves avacados, spinach, asparagus and all kinds of other things most kids don't like.  When she was a baby she loved avacado so much that the only way I could get her to eat the baby rice cereal was to mix it with avacado then put it all back in the avacado shell and feed it to her out of that!

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