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How To Make Baby Food Purees With No Recipe

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You buy pouches! Obviously. 

We are in the thick of baby feeding! It’s so much fun. I realize not everyone gives a hoot about baby food, but I’ve all of a sudden been inundated with targeted baby food ads for some company that charges OVER FOUR DOLLARS for a jar of baby food.

No, just no. I buy a good amount of baby food to supplement what I make for Will, but I do find that making it myself is cheap and takes hardly any time at all with the tiniest bit of planning. I also don’t use recipes because HE’S A BABY but I want him to BE AN ADULT at some point, so I puree regular food with enough water to make it a puree and that is literally the recipe.

You’re welcome.

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Our Favorite Microplane + Giveaway!

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We’re cooking with Beck today! 

Microplane Zester

You saw her Monday in the Chinese Beef and Zucchini Bowls, get after those if you haven’t already.

Beck is at an age where she can actually DO a few things in the kitchen, and I love it so much. She has an understanding of how to hold handles of pots and not use her other hand to stabilize a hot pot (thank goodness), she can stir and add ingredients, and whooboy will she taste almost anything if she’s made it herself.

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Chinese Beef with Zucchini Bowls

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Oh hey, easy dinners that light up my life.

Beef and Zucchini Rice Bowls

Are bowls over, or are we still good with everything we make going in a shallow bowl with lots of toppings? Please say bowls aren’t over.

These particular bowls are exceptionally delicious. We’re working with a yummy brown sauce that comes together so quickly thanks to a Microplane grater that eliminates chopping of teeny things AND can get little kids involved.

Beef and Zucchini Rice Bowls

Then, we have ground beef, zucchini from your summer garden (!), and crunchy water chestnuts mainly because I adore them. This is one of those “regular” meals that is also highly flavorful and a perfect weeknight dinner.

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