Blueghh Peas

I know I've been writing about Zahra a lot lately. But there's so many things to write about her, or things that resolves around her.

She's 8 months plus now which means she already tried a lot of food! The only thing is I didn't manage to snap the menu all the time because we are running against the time now. Most of the time we prepare the food after office hour, have to rush peeling, steaming, blending, cooling and taking care of her at the same time. This lady likes to climb a lot - a lot that she bumped her head few times already :(. So sometimes tak sempat nak amik gambar.

Anyway this menu is when she was 6 months old. It's the first time I introduce her to sweet peas.

Sweet peas is full of protein and the goodness for 6-months old baby, and not 'gassy' after being cooked.

You have to peel the skin, use the beans only. Only thing is, the sweet peas that I bought is quite small hence it's too little comparing to the porridge. So I add a handful of frozen peas.

From what I read, frozen vegetables is the second best after fresh one. I boiled it separately before dump everything into the porridge.

And the result? Zahra hates it!!

Hahaha...I tried the peas again when she was 7-months old, and she still hates it! I wonder why, I mean, I tried it and it's nice, it tastes like beans la..creamy with a hint of sweetness. Maybe I can try to give it to her again, much later.

By the way, as for now, I already introduced her to chicken and beef! And she loves beef the most! And she's getting pickier where she doesn't like her food to be the same for 3 days in a row. So the trick is, I made few different types in a batch and alternate it.

This is her current staple

Lunch #1: porridge + chicken + carrots + a bulb of garlic + few slices of ginger
Lunch #2: porridge + beef + potato + onion + few slices of ginger
Tea + Dinner: apples + avocado

She likes the combination of apples and avocado very much so am thinking of giving her another fruit with avocado, like papaya or raisins (I'm a big fan of avocado, so don't want to remove it from her daily diet). So far she is free from sugar and salt! Not even a pinch in her porridge. It's not a big deal actually, but I just love the natural food she's having ;)

And the new list at the fridge.

So far this is what she had tried:

Rice - loves!
Barley - normal
Papaya - loves!
Apples - loves!
Avocado - loves!
Banana - normal
Raisins - loves!
Pumpkins - hates!
Dates - normal
Pear - normal
Watermelon - normal
Plum - hates!
Carrots - loves!
Potato - loves!
Japanese Sweet Potato - loves the purple one, hates the yellow one
Sweet peas - hates!
Beef - loves!
Chicken - normal

That's all that I can remember for now. Will share more later!