Starting Solids: Sweet Potato Puree with Beaba BabyCook

Last night, on Barron's 6 month birthday, he started solids for the first time! Very exciting for Andrew and I, and I'm sure Barron as well. He has been grabbing at food on our plates for awhile now. We started him on a homemade sweet potato puree using our Beaba BabyCook.

If you are in the market for a baby food maker, I love my BabyCook. I did some research before adding to my registry and the reason I chose it was because it could steam and blend the baby food, plus had great reviews from other moms. It is simple and gets the job done. And I had less clean up since I could steam and blend in one appliance.

After visiting with Barron's doctor yesterday we chose to start him on sweet potatoes. The puree was pretty simple to make...

Sweet Potato Puree
1. Wash and peel sweet potato.
2. Cut into cubes.
3. Steam sweet potato cubes - with the babycook I filled the water to level 3. Placed the cubes in the steam basket and turned on. 15 minutes later the sweet potatoes were perfectly steamed.
4. Blend sweet potatoes - I poured sweet potatoes from steal basket into glass jar, placed on the mixing lid and turned to blend for about 20 seconds, stirred and blended again for about 20 seconds.
5. Let cool and enjoy! - put leftovers into the Beaba multi-portion trays (ice cube trays work too) and freeze for a later time.

The Beaba Babycook is a great baby food maker. I like making my own baby food because that way I know exactly what Barron is eating. And steaming is the best when it comes to baby food beacuse the steam allows the most nutirents to be preseved from the vegetables. I also like the Beaba BabyCook becuase when it is done, it turns off automatically. Great for moms.

Barron's first time with solids was a huge success and he loved the sweet potatoes!  It was so fun to feed him! He loved every minute. In 3 days, assuming he has no allergic reactions, we will start him on bananas, then we'll try avocados. I will keep you posted on how Barron likes them!