re: Homemade Baby Food - Chat/Advice/Etc.

I have never used an electric steam but i see no reason why not! You can strain it because some of the things have little bits to get out and you will have a much smoother puree(the part in the bowl)

anyway
www.wholesomebabyfood.com
awesome reference and my best friend lol

Quoting aShLey♥cLiNt+1:“ Hi ladies! I have a 4 month old son, and im ready to start trying baby food. Maybe in the next few weeks. ... [snip!] ... pureeing? Do you put a bowl under the strainer and use what ends up in the bowl? Any advice would be appreciated! Thank you!”

this website is awesome... i am pretty sure most of the momma's in this thread go use it regularly!
http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/

Quoting aShLey♥cLiNt+1:“ Hi ladies! I have a 4 month old son, and im ready to start trying baby food. Maybe in the next few weeks. ... [snip!] ... pureeing? Do you put a bowl under the strainer and use what ends up in the bowl? Any advice would be appreciated! Thank you!”

An electric steamer should work just fine.

As for the additional straining, I never did that. I just used my food processor excessively  .

Quoting aShLey♥cLiNt+1:“ Hi ladies! I have a 4 month old son, and im ready to start trying baby food. Maybe in the next few weeks. ... [snip!] ... pureeing? Do you put a bowl under the strainer and use what ends up in the bowl? Any advice would be appreciated! Thank you!”

The straining comes from those who are just boiling the veggies in water, instead of using a regular steamer. Either way works. I would imagine that a real steamer would keep the nitrates out of things better. IIf you're planning on starting solids at four months that mightis important. Check out wholesomebabyfoods.com for more tips, tricks and guidlines.

When can babies have berries? It just hit me today that the waffles we've been eating in the morning have blueberries in them and I was mid-feeding her yogurt today when I realized it was strawberry flavored. She's had both of those things numerous times unfortunately : / If she showed no signs of reaction could I continue these in her diet or stop letting her have them until she's 1? BTW she's 10 months old.

Quoting skyler's mama megan:“ When can babies have berries? It just hit me today that the waffles we've been eating in the morning ... [snip!] ... no signs of reaction could I continue these in her diet or stop letting her have them until she's 1? BTW she's 10 months old.”

she is fine!   my son eats both of those fruits all the time! (he's 9 months)

Quoting mrs_djf:“ she is fine!   my son eats both of those fruits all the time! (he's 9 months)”

okay whew! I think I thought it was fine because when we go on vacation we buy Earth's Best and they had berries in their stage 2s so I did not think anything of it then I heard it was bad. : /
She loves them though so yahh!

Quoting skyler's mama megan:“ When can babies have berries? It just hit me today that the waffles we've been eating in the morning ... [snip!] ... no signs of reaction could I continue these in her diet or stop letting her have them until she's 1? BTW she's 10 months old.”

Blueberries are fine Carter eat's them too, but berries with seeds like raspberries and strawberries they suggest waiting until a year, but I'm sure strawberry flavored yogurt is different, I wouldn't give her fresh strawberries until checking with your pedi first though.

i'd like to introduce juice next. we did green beans tonight and he loved them so a few more days of those and then i'd like to get some juice in him. so i'd like recommendations of how to go about this, should i stick to the bottle or try a sippy? and should i just buy regular juice and water it down or buy special juice?

can my 10 month old have soy sauce in a recipe? I know they aren't supposed to have added salt and soysauce is really salty? I was just going to make this:
http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=16516.0

thanks again ladies. I'm so paranoid about what to give and what not to give her!

Quoting skyler's mama megan:“ can my 10 month old have soy sauce in a recipe? I know they aren't supposed to have added salt and soysauce ... [snip!] ... http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=16516.0 thanks again ladies. I'm so paranoid about what to give and what not to give her!”

I don't see why not, you can buy low sodium soy sauce!

i have like a month or so before she starts getting solids but what machine do yall use? i was looking at blenders and all that the other day and was like omg, and does anyone use the i think its ziplock or gladd steamer things?

Quoting Chelsey L:“ i have like a month or so before she starts getting solids but what machine do yall use? i was looking ... [snip!] ... at blenders and all that the other day and was like omg, and does anyone use the i think its ziplock or gladd steamer things?”

I haven't started yet either but i have the knock off version of the magic bullet. and i do have those bags. I think ill use them till i can find a good priced steamer.

whats it called i think i know what youre talking about i seen one at target but it wasnt called a magic bullet

I got mine form walmart. Ill see if i can find it.