Comments on: Baby food

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:31:12 +0000

Your paed seems really strange. When I told mine that Luigi was eating lentils and yogurt he was really pleased – especially about the lentils as he said lentils and pasta are a complete meal. I basically give Luigi whatever I think of as long as it doesn’t have a lot of salt in it. I did find that he had some trouble with tomatoes in the beginning and the paed did say to hold off on them a while, but that’s due to the acid content. Amazing how different the doctors can be, isn’t it?

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:28:34 +0000

Lauren, I sent you an email. Luigi loves steamed chopped carrots which is what I do with most vegetables that I give to him now. Before, whatever I had on hand I would steam and puree.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:18:50 +0000

Hi! I am also living in Italy (Naples). My son is 8 months old and is just one month into eating baby food solids. He will only eat fruit at this point... so I am running into the same problem with finding veggies. Do you have any great recipes that you could share?? Thanks!! biehnl {at} yahoo {dot} com Lauren´s last blog post..Strawberry Vanilla Cake with Limoncello Frosting

By: kataroma

kataroma — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:36:10 +0000

I also blogged about Italian baby food back when my baby started on solids at 6 months. Unlike you I don't trust my paediatrician at all (this is the same paed who told me that Astrid was "too fat" at 8 weeks so I should only breastfeed her 5 times a day. (eyeroll!) So far doing the opposite of what she tells me seems to be working fine! BTW- when I told the paed that Astrid eats lentils and chickpeas (in the form of hummus) she nearly hit the roof as apparently "legumi" are really bad for babies (yeah, whatever). Also apparently giving her plain yoghurt is a big no no and I should only give her horrible bland cheeses like low fat Philadelphia cream cheese. I ignore all this and Astrid has a nice varied diet at 9 months - eats most things with gusto - meat, pureed veggies, whole veggies steamed as finger foods, fruit, yoghurt, fish etc etc. I think a lot of the food restrictions they put on babies here are so much hocus pocus. kataroma´s last blog post..Cloth diapering/nappying in Italy

By: Cathy Kesseler

Cathy Kesseler — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:52:51 +0000

Yes- a while back some wealthy people had the issue placed on a state wide ballot and the majority voted to ban the eating of horsemeat. ( I voted against the ban). In California horses are viewed as pets and the idea of ‘eatign Trigger’ horrified some people. Also P.E.T.A. has a lot of support in California and there are a lot of vegetarians and vegans.

I don’t like being told what to eat by others and I will definately try horsemeat if I get the chance.
By the way in 2012 California will ban foie gras.
Cathy

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:23:58 +0000

Oh yes, I always make my own vegies. Thanks for the link.

By: Paola

Paola — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:15:04 +0000

Have you thought about making your own veggies? I think when we start with Veggies we will puree them and make them ourselves – which we will probably do in Italia. This site has a lot of good info http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/

Paola´s last blog post..Quick updates

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:11:36 +0000

Wow, I didn’t know eating horsemeat was illegal in California. Here, obviously, the horses used for food are raised for that purpose. I’ve never eaten it myself, but when I read about all its benefits, I decided to feed it to my son.

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:09:13 +0000

See, I didn’t know that. Most of the things I read online delayed meats for longer than that. And thanks for the breakdown, that gives me something to compare too. Strawberries are only delayed here until 8 months though, so Luigi has already eaten them and had no reaction, thank goodness.

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:06:43 +0000

Just remember, the veggie selection is limited. That’s my only complaint.