Dexter's Love/Hate Relationship with Sweet Potatoes

Now that Dexter is 5 months old, we decided to break out of the "rice cereal" rut and try an actual vegetable. I pureed some baked sweet potato with baby formula and gave it a shot. (Don't laugh - we're trying to make as much of our own baby food as we can. So far, so good.)

The Dexter was not a fan.


We gave him some rice cereal just so he would get some volume. Overall, he still doesn't seem pleased.


I had frozen the remaining sweet potato puree in an ice tray. Dennis put one of the frozen cubes into the Munchkin "Fresh Food Feeder," and Dexter loved it! It might have helped that he had a frozen thing to chew on. (Like so many babies, he likes that kind of thing.) In any case, the sweet potatoes were a much bigger hit in the mesh feeder.


(Note the sweet potato forehead, knees, and thighs in that second picture. He also got it all over his seat, which went into the wash shortly thereafter.)




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PS - Thin Mints are awesome!