Make your own baby food (chicken)?

I saw this thread in babies but it occurred to me that cooks and moms with older children probably have more experience. Dr. wants dd (7mos) to eat chicken. (She needs to grow!!) Any tricks? I tried this with older son when he was an infant and he just kept spitting it out.

Diamond Member Joined: Apr 16 2007 Posts: 2952

My kids loved pureed chicken soup at that age. They had it almost every night. I would blend chicken, sweet potatoes, carrots, zucchini and some of the soup.

Thanks, did you salt the soup before you pureed it? Or did you take some out to puree for the babies and then salt the remainder (for adults) after?

I also pureed the soup (and sometimes just the chicken with veggies), I used very little liquid to puree, then added until I got the consistancy I wanted. I don't salt my soup.

Silver Member Joined: Mar 06 2006 Posts: 903

my kids never liked the pureed foods, I just cut the chicken from the soup very small, and add some soup to it, and add some carots from the soup, also cut small. Really I do this with any foods we eat so long as there is no nuts in it.

My dd (1 year soon) eats jars. But she likes everything we eat too, except everything orange/mandarina, and not so much into spinach.
She loves eating from our plate, it's always more interesting! Wink

Just make sure the bits are tiny, or puree/mix the whole thing.

At the restaurant she also likes most stuff and most cuisines: Chinese, Indian, Thai, Tex Mex, French, Italian whatever. BH she is like us, she enjoys good food. I just hope she'll stay that easy to feed!
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Posted: Sat, Feb 16 2008, 5:21 pm Post subject:

I'm like mommy24. I don't make special food for the babies, at any age. I just take what the rest of the family are eating and mush it up. I do keep a stock of jar food in the house for emergencies, but only really need to use them about once every 2 weeks or so.

Posted: Sat, Feb 16 2008, 11:59 pm Post subject:

For each of my kids I made "chicken mush". My mother made it for us as kids. It is chicken bottoms, carrots, sweet potatoes boiled up & blended.

Platinum Member Joined: Aug 01 2005 Posts: 16957

I cooked a huge pot of chicken capons or chicken stew so I didnt have to take it off the bone, along with carrots, sweet potatoes and squash, no salt, and pureed it all. he loved it until he was old enough to eat finger foods (about a year.)
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Diamond Member Joined: Dec 05 2005 Posts: 3505

I threw into a pot- carrots, potato, swt pot., apple, some chikn breast (no bone), and any other veg and fruit, I don't remember which ones. covered with just enough water (cuz you don't want to have to drain it), boiled (sans salt or spices) and pureed it with a hand blender and froze it. I made a big batch at a time and froze in little breast milk storage cups that I no longer used. I also made spinach and brocolli steamed (the bodek type) and did the same.

They're eating it! Oh my, you guys are the best!

Posted: Wed, Feb 20 2008, 7:14 am Post subject:

B"H you found a winner!

I add baby cereal to mine sometime to bulk it up and to soak up extra broth so it's not too soupy. This makes less mess when little miss independent tries to wield the spoon herself.

At 10mos dd snatched a chicken leg off my plate at a bris and chowed down. I was surprised that she chewed, enjoyed, and finished it. I also wish I'd been able to eat something, hehe.