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For those that do this I have a couple questions (and I would love to swap recipes!)

Patti pan squash...we're getting this straight from the garden now and I have no idea how to cook it. I steamed it and peeled it and pureed it, and he took a bite and looked at me like I had 5 heads...this boy eats everything so I figured something was wrong, and tasted it. It just tastes like...nothing. I mixed it with his banana and he ate some but it just seemed so watery and blah. Should I be squeezing it out or something? Should I NOT have peeled it?

Beets. Everything I read is different on when he can have them and I just want some opinions on when you all started them. I boiled them in a tiny bit of water and then pureed them really smooth. I want to try them cause DH and I love them, but some books say not till 8 or 9 months

At what age and how many teeth did you start to let the food get a little chunkier. Some days if I put too much water in his cereal he gets mad, some days if I make it even a tiny bit to thick, he gags. It's a VERY fine line. Right now every batch of veggies I do, I make I make a smooth to freeze in one bad and a chunky to freeze in another. I figure it should only be another month or two and he will eat chunky but what do I know?

Carrots...again, mixed reports on making my own, so far I've done organic jarred and it kills me. Did you all make your own?

Applesauce/peaches. I made a bunch of applesauce and he's had some organic in the little containers (not baby food, just the organic snack packs) and he loves it. It seems like it gives him diaper rash though. I'm not sure if it was just eating (and pooping) more in general and he got used to it about the same time as I took him off the apples or if he was reacting to the apples. Anyone else have baby's with butts sensitive to apples? He is also teething so I have no idea.
When can he start fresh pureed peaches (they are frozen, in cubes, just not cooked) I've heard now (7 months), and I've heard 9 months.

Yogurt. I'm afraid. He tried rice cereal with apples and yogurt and it gave him diaper rash but again, no idea if it was the apples or the yogurt. Because of his lactose issues, I'm just cautious. Dr said we could when he was six months, I just haven't...lol. Anyone have a lactose intolerant baby that did well on yogurt? We're going to make our own once he starts eating it, but what did you all use?

I should have just bought ONE book. Like I can have just one of anything right?