Please, sir, can I have some more?
June 24, 2009
Charlie’s meal repertoire is ever-expanding. Recently, it finally came to include mear: turkey, to be precise. Jean and I first tried to cook some ground turkey and then puree it. This is exactly the same method I use for the many foods Charlie already eats like pears, carrots, bananas, peas, apples, sweet potatoes, and others I’m forgetting. The turkey, however, was just gross! All three of us thought so, so we just threw it away. However, we have since started giving him store-bought baby-food that includes turkey (“vegetable turkey dinner”) and it is going well.
He likes to eat!
For each new food you give a baby, you have to wait 3 days to determine that there is no allergic reaction before adding another new food to his diet, If you try several new foods at once and there is an allergic reaction, you do not know to which food the baby is allergic. Anyhow, after turkey, we will be adding zuchini, which Jean made a large batch of a few days ago, and then after that is chicken. Soon I want to give him non-pureed food — such as small pieces of soft fruits – but there is no specific time-frame in place for that yet.
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I was thinking about why your turkey would be gross when ours wasn’t. Did you mix it with formula? I just put cooked chicken in the food processor and gave that to Peyton, sometimes mixed in with carrots or something, so it was really just liked little tiny chopped chicken pieces.
Interesting… Maybe we just over-processed it. Charlie has not yet had “tiny chopped pieces” of anything, so we pureed the turkey; it was like a paste (it was kind of reminiscent of what movies/TV always use to represent disgusting food, like in prison, or on MASH).
Soon I am going to see how he handles small chunks of fruit, which I think will be fine. Then maybe we’ll re-visit home-made meat dishes. But for now we’ll just stick with the store-bought turkey and chicken, so we can at least get it added to his approved foods list.