A S.t.a.r. girls

So far so good, apple, bread and banana - receive good response. She didn't like rice and tried to spit it out. Tried again today- okay to calrose rice rather than basmathi.
She has also eaten spinach, carrot and broccoli.
Farley's rusk seems to bother her past 2 days. No more today!

This was the time I had to start blogging because I kept making up new dishes to perk up Arianna's interest. She gets bored with the same food.

It was pretty simple till this period. I had a variety of carbohydrate, fruit and vegetable in my cooking list. Arianna would be contented with simple taste, the natural taste of the food. 

Note that I started giving her cheese. She had shown allergic reaction to cow's milk, but cheese, yogurt etc are processed dairy products. The lactose are already broken down during the processing, thus easier on their digestive system. However, she vomited the cheese...so we waited for few weeks till we tried again.

Since I was having loads of sushi, it's only natural Arianna wanted some too. Daddy bought calrose rice, the one they used for sushi. Surprise, surprise (or not?) she loves it. We did not add vinegar, sugar, salt into it though (unlike the sushi).

I was slowly introducing more protein to her. She still loves fish over chicken/ beef/ lamb

9 months:
calrose/sushi rice 
watermelon 
pasta

10 months:
carrot noodle 
onion 
cheese 
corn 
goat cheese 
rockmelon 
olive oil 
white bread 
mango 
wholegrain bread 
chicken 
tofu 
tomato 
lamb 

Busy 2 months for her, as she was becoming mobile. She started crawling, swimming with Daddy. Fine motor skills - banging cubes, pincer grasp, holding her sippy. She was very sociable, prior to separation/ stranger anxiety. She hated pooping in diaper, so she learned to potty.

When Arianna turned 6 months old (way back in June 2008), I started with these (in that particular order - every 3-4 days)

~white rice

~apple

~banana

~sweet potato

~'air zam zam' (usually it's cooled boiled water)

~'ciku'

~carrot

~broccoli

~barley

~papaya

~'kailan'

~brown rice

I did not cook the porridge, ie cook the rice real soft, and blend it like (I think) my mom used to do. Instead I milled the white rice, brown rice and barley into fine flour (imagine the Neslac in tin), and cook it: 2 tablespoon to 3/4 cups of water. I then dilute it with a little bit of EBM to give it a familiar taste.

I did not really puree (blend and sieve) the veggies. Instead I just used the blender/food processor till the food is real fine. Malas la guna sieve :) Plus you're gonna sieve out all the fibre bits.

For the fruits, the soft fruits like papaya, banana and 'ciku', we just mashed it up. I initially steamed the papaya, but it became too mushy and sweet.