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Originally Posted by OakShannon

I don't know - maybe I was supposed to wait. I think Daniel is just a couple of weeks older than Ty - he was born on Jan. 7th I thought I had done a lot of reading about infant nutrition - especially since we are vegetarians - but no one told me that those types of vegetables were a bad idea. What was the reason you were given?

Daniel certainly hasn't had any issues with broccoli, cauliflower or eggplant so far (I do take the skin off though) and he's been getting them for a month or so. He just prefers them mixed with other, sweeter veggies like squash or carrots. I do limit the carrots I serve him from home because of the nitrites. He LOVES carrots though so I'll sometimes buy them for him - but I don't like buying baby food. Not just nutritionally - I hate all those little plastic containers.

The Dr said we could try them but get few babies can tolerate them before 9 months. They don't have the stomach acid to break them down yet. I'm gonna try them. How do you cook the broccoli and cauliflower? You think I could try those mixed together or should I do it seperate first? I have some beautiful eggplant and now I can't wait to cook it. I've done that in balsamic and olive oil on the grill for myself before, but not for Ty...I can roast that? Cut in pieces or slices? What seasonings do you use?

I'm picturing just breaking out a bunch of our corningware (can I roast in that?) and putting different veggies in each one and sprinkling some fresh herbs on them and putting all the pans in the oven

I would really like to expand Ty's palet as much as possible. His dad likes everything, I like almost everything and we do a lot of cooking...it will be so tough if Ty is a picky eater. I want him eatting sushi (ok california rolls and eel only) at 2!