But with spring.
Thinking about being
here farmers markets theoretically will be
soon open with fresh produce.
Perfect for everyone in your house from
Mama to baby.
And joining me this morning are local
authors, blending bloggers, and
new parents, Shalva and Lenny Gale Good
morning guys.
Good morning!
New parents.
Yeah kids.
How many?
Just one. Just one.
Oh so like brand new parents?
Real new. Oh wow.
So you're just getting into this whole
baby food excitement.
From an experimental basis.
First and foremost you
guys are all for blending up and making
your own baby food.
Tell us why folks might want to consider
doing that.
Sure. So there's a few reasons.
One is that you're
in control. So it's true you
know exactly what's going in fresh local
produce that's in season and
you also know exactly what's not going in.
And to us that's the most important is
there's no additives there's
no flavorings there's no preservatives if
you're doing it yourself.
Secondly it's so much healthier for the
baby.
If you're using local
fresh seasonal food it's packed full of
nutrients. And third and
I think this one is a little bit surprising to people. We
think that it's healthier for Mama.
And the reason is that you take
so much time taking care of yourself when
you're pregnant and when you're nursing
and then when your kid starts eating food
you kind of lose sight of that.
So instead of going to the grocery store
and picking up a pouch or a
jar of baby food and then maybe like a
frozen dinner for yourself instead
we're sending you to the farmer's market
to get produce for the whole family.
And by doing that, tou're encouraging the
rest of the family to eat on a on a
healthier level.
Who's idea was this? Was this a joint
effort or who who thought of this idea
first of baby food?
The baby was ready.
They say that baby
food helps baby sleep through the night.
So at a certain point--.
So this is a selfish motive?
Yeah.
So it
was and this is kind of what we do.
You have
a choice. And you can go to the grocery
store and you can see jars and packets
and you can see that they're there for a
couple bucks and it doesn't look like
they're that's all that's a couple of
dollars but over the course of a month it
really adds up.
Oh it does especially as they start to eat
more and more.
And especially when you can
make your own easily
at home for pennies on the dollar.
So again this is a money saving feature as
well. So you don't need to spend a lot of
money when you do this when you make
you're not adding a bunch of stuff it's
just essentially going to the farmer's
market, finding what you like.
You have to you have to do other things or
add stuff to just a vegetable or a fruit.
Or is it literally just pulping
the heck out of something.
So at first it's
really just blending one or two ingredients together. So for month
all he's gonna be eating is
a couple of things together.
You can start to get really creative and make
some stuff. So yes you might want
to start getting creative with it. We're
excited to get creative about it to give him
some interesting things to try to expand his palate a little bit.
But the only prep that you need is to
steam your vegetables.
Steaming is by far the best way to keep as
many nutrients as you can in them.
So it took me four minutes to steam the
piece that we're going to use today.
All right go ahead. And did you want to blend
something up.
Yeah, we'll show you. So we're just -- are
we going to make peas or we're gonna do
something with it.
So I've got my sous chef here we are
making a really simple simple one
today because like I said we've got a
four-month old and he can really only
handle one thing right.
You don't introduce too many things at the
same time. Exactly.
So for allergies you want to make sure to
keep it simple but you can get really
really interesting at a certain point
here.
So I've got peas which have been steamed.
They're seasonal right now.
You can go to, when
the farmer's markets available to us, and then
dump them in. Yeah. Go.
So it's two cups of steamed peas and then
we've got a half a cup of a non-dairy
milk of your choice. You can get almond milk
cashew milk or you
can use breast milk or formula in here,
too, depending.
So we've got a half cup of that.
Lenny is going to blend it up just
for about 10 seconds.
Super easy high powered blender.
This is a Vitamix.
This is what we use at home.
There it goes.
Now you
said
you use almond milk in there? Yes, we're using almond milk.
It is common you can us expressed
breast milk.
A lot of people use formula in here
too.
So we would probably use the tamper that
goes with it. Yeah, yeah, you want to
squish everything else. I have a tendancy
to rock things by the bay.
That's probably not good for the lid.
This is what it ends up looking like.
Is this bright fresh vibrant living color.
You can tell it has nutrients in it
because of the color.
Did you make of it -- was this made with,
was this made with almond milk. Yes, almond.
Just making sure. Yes, extra extra
nutrients there.
And then, what do you think?
It's peas.
You know for an adult I'd say maybe
add some salt.
But that's not bad.
It's very clean.
I like that.
It's just peas.
And then we also have a sweet potato carrot one
which is it's
sweet naturally because of the carrots but
also very vibrant full of nutrienets --.
Now and you'll make this stuff you make
this stuff once a week and you keep it in
the fridge or you put the stuff in the
freezer.
So that's a great question.
So a lot of people will make a huge bag
and then they'll freeze it.
So Lenny do you want to kind of show them
the process.
Well look we live about ten or twelve
seconds left.
How long will it last in the freezer if
you can do it?
Three months which is about how long
you're gonna be doing it anyway.
I was going to say yes then you can make
it once and then you just say maybe I'm
done forever.
There a popsicle if you're not too
careful.
Well guys we've run out of time but thank
you very much. No thank Shalva Lenny thank
you for joining us this morning and for
all of these recipes including guess what
they've got a book.
It's called the perfect mix.
You can go to their Web site their
blog it's life is no yolk dot
com life is NOYOKE dot com.