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Jessica

Baby-Led Weaning: Our Experience

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This post has been updated to include the end of the weaning process and was re-posted when Monster was 13 months old, and completely on solid food. 

Baby-led Weaning Our Experience

 

As a new parent, I’m learning so much. I know there is still so much to learn. It’s like I’m in a constant state of unease. There’s really no rule book rulebook and there are a million different ways to do just about everything. One of the things that I get questions about most often is how we feed our kid. This is mostly because we started doing Baby-Led Weaning (BLW), which sounded crazy to most people.

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Busy Busy!

Man, this month was a ride. We started off camping with my parents, then spent a week at a cabin on a lake with Chuck’s parents. On top of all that Chuck was stuck working overtime for weeks, and Monster picked up a stomach bug. We had so much going on I’m still trying to catch up with myself.

Side note: Vacations with small children are NOT like vacations used to be. They are a lot of fun, but the whole relaxation part didn’t quite happens. It’s cool I love seeing my little guy so happy, I’d do it all again in a heartbeat.

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Wild Berry Barbecue Sauce

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This is a recipe that I have been working on for a long time and I think I finally got the hang of it. Originally, I wanted to make a low sugar barbecue sauce, mostly because I was in the throws of a gestational diabetes diagnosis.  I thought I could add sweetness with the addition of berries instead of sugar, which had previously not spiked my sugar. In this process, I found that it’s really hard to make a low sugar barbecue sauce actually taste good….

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The Local Thirty

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The Local Thirty is a challenge set forth by Andrea Beamis of Dishing up the Dirt . She first announced the idea back in June or July some time and I immediately got excited. Chuck told me I was insane, since I was, at the time, Immersed in the #100daysofmenus challenge and struggling a little (PS I’m still working on that ebook). It’s fine though, this challenge is going to be very different. Right? Right….

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Burst Cherry Tomato Sauce with Herbs

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We have entered the season for fresh produce in the northeast and man am I happy about it. I’ve got garlic and onions curing in the garage, tomatoes leaping off the vines at me, beans, squash, and cucumbers rolling in. There are even some halfway decent carrots in the garden (I’ve never grown a good carrot until this year), I’m leaving them in and just pulling them as we eat them right now….

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