When Sean was just a few days old ( hence the above picture) we started looking at making baby food. I knew sooner than I was ready for, he would be on semi-solid foods. So Mike (the Great Daddu and food guru) started the search for farmers markets. Despite being in the middle of NO WHERE ( Edwards Air Force Base) we found one. It was a great market and we found many of our first foods there.
There was something really magickal about the grower helping us pick out Sean's first food - a wonderfully buttery avocado. It was picked just a few hours before and was nothing short of exquisite.
We also realized early on, that life is complicated. Life does not always present itself in nice neat packages. And more specifically, sometimes good plans go bad if you hold on to ideals too tightly. So with that in mind we embarked on making as much of his baby food as was PRACTICAL. This means that not everything is out of our garden or grown by people we know and sometimes the supermarket produce is JUST fine.
I also have no intention of spending 40 hours a week making baby food. I could be spending that time with my quickly growing and changing baby. Were are working in the real world here, with a real budget and real time constraints. So here is to reality and attainable goals!
Happy baby food making!
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