Making homemade baby food is really no big deal. I already have 5 different freezer bags full of food cubes in my freezer and I can’t say I’ve spent more than 15 minutes per week working on it. Fruits and veggies are easy.
And when it came to introducing whole grains, I had the best intentions of making that, too. But then I went on a business trip and I wanted Ryder to continue eating new foods (and apparently I can’t trust anyone else to make the food??), so I picked up a box of Safeway Organic Brown Rice Cereal. It’s the highly processed meal stuff, but at least it’s organic and it’s brown rice. Plus, it’s fortified with iron, which is apparently a big deal. I figured I’d make up for it by pureeing my own steel cut oats for grain #2.
But, I was at Target and noticed a can of HappyBellies organic oatmeal cereal with DHA and Probiotics. Wow, that sounded good. And easy. And it was only $3. So I bought it. Ryder seems to enjoy both grain cereals and I feel like for a store-bought option, they are good ones.
I figured these two boxes of cereals would be where my store shopping would end. Until I was at the new Whole Foods Interbay today. I ran through the store to get Hylands teething tablets and some more plain yogurt for the babe. Turns out you can only buy organic whole milk plain yogurt in the 32oz. container. With our vacation coming up, I figured that would be a waste. So, I opted for the Stonyfield YoBaby organic yogurt cups in peach and pear blends. It’s organic and the label didn’t have any weird ingredients, so I went for it.
And so did Ryder. For dinner tonight he gobbled up a sweet potato cube, a serving of rice and was hungry for more. I dished out half a container of the pear yogurt and I’m pretty certain he would have eaten the rest.
Taste-tested and approved!
