San Francisco Dad

Doing Lines

Ever since her early days, SFBaby has always been a connoisseur of good smack (as evidenced by her rather fickle eating habits). In the mornings, we generally prepare a smörgåsbord for her of various types of foods. If we are lucky, most of this food will get eaten at some point or another between breakfast and dinner time.

We are followers of the “frozen food cube” method popularized by the Super Baby Food book, which means that creating her buffet is as easy as opening the freezer and pulling out a few cubes of whatever. (We just won’t talk about the hours SFDad spends slaving away at the food processor with his hands covered in sweet potato puree.)

In keeping with the Swedish smörgåsbord theme, we got a fun ice cube tray from IKEA® that produces really long sticks of frozen things ‡, which results in some rather oddly-shaped “cubes” of food for SFBaby to eat. Here, you can see her dining on a scrumptious-looking selection of broccoli, cauliflower and eggplant!

‡: friendlyneighbortothenorth will be happy to note that we are following her advice about trying not to buy baby products from baby stores. Total cost for our ice cube tray: $1.99!

Tags: baby food, Feeding, food cubes, frozen, ikea, smorgasbord

4 Comments

• friendly neighbor to the north says:

  February 26 2009 at 2:32 pm

  Doesn’t that just get your goat that they charge you FIFTEEN BUCKS for an ice cube tray in a baby store? WHACK. I hate that.
• Aunt Judy says:

  February 26 2009 at 2:53 pm

  Do you really give her a good smack?
  • SFDad says:

    February 26 2009 at 6:27 pm

    Uh, I think that’s something different…
• Lisa Cain says:

  February 26 2009 at 3:10 pm

  I’m a SFMom and I used the food cube method too. I was so inspired by the whole thing – I wrote a website (as SFs tend to do) check it out: http://www.babyfood101.com
  I hope it is helpful. Lisa