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Originally Posted by aclee
We have a juicer too...but it sounds like a ford escort to your Lexus SUV  We use it for...juice! Ty hasn't started any juice yet. He's old enough, but we have a hard enough time getting enough formula into him without taking up room with juice. I'd like to hold off on him starting juice anyway, I feel like kids can drink way too much juice, and granted this is fresh, but there are other ways to get their vitamins etc too (like whole fruit!) WE however LOVE fresh OJ...
DH is low sodium and I am now gluten free (woohoo) so I hear you on the special diets...we are big cookers too. For me the hardest part is knowing what spices and herbs I can add to his food (pediactrician said that was ok...so he didn't get used to bland food) at such an early age. I do cinnamon in his apples and a little light parsley or basil with some of this veggies...I don't know if he likes that or not |
The juicer is pretty cool, very industrial looking. They bought it about 10 years ago and never really used it so I was more than happy to take of their hands!
Personally I think I'll treat spices just like foods, introducing one then wait to be sure they're ok with it. That way I'll know if they like it alone and you can track any reactions. If you look at the organic jarred foods they have some pretty strongly spiced meals. My sister used gerber organics with my niece and one of the beef stews was too spicey for her. The poor kid made terrible faces and even though it had wheat in it I did a quick tip of the tongue test and it was TOO much, like they dump a jar of basil in it.
I've been on a wheat, dairy and preservative free diet for about 6 or 7 years now. It was harder in the beginning but now gluten free is so mainstream it's a snap pretty much today. I can still do gluten
technically, but most products I use fit into gluten free. Not sure how long you've been doing it, but if you like I can PM you some links. (dont' want to totally throw the thread with gluten free links!)