Easy way to make raw vegan baby food!!!

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I am so excited! Last night I laboriously made my 8 month old daughter her

dinner the

hard way. I ground soaked pumpkin seeds in the mill, grated cucumber, then

added both

ingredients to the pulverized chlorella tablets in the mortar and pestle and

pulverized it

for a bit. I fed her a bite and she did not like it. I know she likes all the

ingredients in

general. I think she was objecting to the cucumber -- had been in the fridge

for a while.

 

Problem -- what to feed a hungry baby in a hurry. The juicer was clean so I

gave her a

piece of cucumber in a feeder bag and got to work making carrot, spinach, apple

juice. I

have an ordinary Jack La Lanne's Power Juicer. It does not strain the juice

very well so I

have been running my juice through a sieve before I drink it because all that

pulp makes

me want to gag. I was trying to get the job done but my baby was complaining

that I was

taking sooo long. Instead of dumping out the next batch of pulp I grabbed a

spoon and

gave her a taste of it. The strained pulp looked like baby food to me -- just

as if it had

come out of a jar ( which we are not using because that would be cooked, but it

sure had

the consistency of it). She Loved It! Ate all of what was in the strainer and

I was sorry I

had rinsed the first strainer full down the drain. I gave her a bit of the

juice in a shot

glass which she drank but had more trouble with. She seemed to still be hungry

after that

so I gave her a few bites of avocado.

 

What a relief! I have been wondering how I was going to get chewable vegetables

into her.

She has been eating mostly fruit and a bit of soaked oats, sunflower seeds,

pumpkin seeds

and algae. I had tried giving her vegetable juice with a bit of the fiber that

shoots out the

back of the juicer -- was not very successful -- juice with chunks she could not

chew

floating in it, not very appealing.

 

Thought another parent struggling with how to feed their baby raw would

appreciate the

idea, but I also am hoping that if this is the wrong thing to do that someone

will tell me a

better way.

 

Martha

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The mesh bags were lifesavers for us. We would even put apples in it when she

could eat the little pieces of apple.

We cooked the veggies to give to her (I did not have a mill nor a juicer, was

still an omni- at that point)

Lily did have a ton of teeth early on (and learned how to nurse safely LOL)

Best of luck.

Cassie

 

brownsgalore <brownsgalore wrote: I am so

excited! Last night I laboriously made my 8 month old daughter her dinner the

hard way. I ground soaked pumpkin seeds in the mill, grated cucumber, then

added both

ingredients to the pulverized chlorella tablets in the mortar and pestle and

pulverized it

for a bit. I fed her a bite and she did not like it. I know she likes all the

ingredients in

general. I think she was objecting to the cucumber -- had been in the fridge

for a while.

 

Problem -- what to feed a hungry baby in a hurry. The juicer was clean so I

gave her a

piece of cucumber in a feeder bag and got to work making carrot, spinach, apple

juice. I

have an ordinary Jack La Lanne's Power Juicer. It does not strain the juice

very well so I

have been running my juice through a sieve before I drink it because all that

pulp makes

me want to gag. I was trying to get the job done but my baby was complaining

that I was

taking sooo long. Instead of dumping out the next batch of pulp I grabbed a

spoon and

gave her a taste of it. The strained pulp looked like baby food to me -- just

as if it had

come out of a jar ( which we are not using because that would be cooked, but it

sure had

the consistency of it). She Loved It! Ate all of what was in the strainer and

I was sorry I

had rinsed the first strainer full down the drain. I gave her a bit of the

juice in a shot

glass which she drank but had more trouble with. She seemed to still be hungry

after that

so I gave her a few bites of avocado.

 

What a relief! I have been wondering how I was going to get chewable

vegetables into her.

She has been eating mostly fruit and a bit of soaked oats, sunflower seeds,

pumpkin seeds

and algae. I had tried giving her vegetable juice with a bit of the fiber that

shoots out the

back of the juicer -- was not very successful -- juice with chunks she could

not chew

floating in it, not very appealing.

 

Thought another parent struggling with how to feed their baby raw would

appreciate the

idea, but I also am hoping that if this is the wrong thing to do that someone

will tell me a

better way.

 

Martha