Re: beginner questions - equipment, early stages

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> <<Will a regular hand mixer work? Or do I need a hand blender? All

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> have so far is a regular hand mixer and a regular blender; no food

> processor or grinder yet.>>

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> Your regular blender will work. Probably not the mixer. I like my

hand-blender a lot... use it FAR more than my standard blender, which

is gathering cobwebs in the back of my pantry. It's just so fast and

easy.... much easier to clean up. Mine cost $18 at the local

supermarket/variety store. Would love to own a Bamix, though! ($$$!!)

>

What's a Bamix? Do you or does anyone on the list have any

recommendations for equipment that will be needed that I don't have

yet (food processor, grinder, hand blender, possibly juicer)?

BTW my son refuses to eat meat (unless hidden in tomato sauce in

small amounts), beef broth, chicken (unless hidden in tomato sauce,

sweet potatoes or squash in small amounts), turkey (ditto), chicken

broth, turkey broth, fish, all of the vegetables on the list except

squash, and he is allergic to eggs, so this will be quite a challenge

for him. For both of us. He can't have tomatoes or squash, the

great hiders of things, until stage 2.

If a child doesn't have any obvious digestive symptoms, is it okay to

start with stage 2? Or can stage 1 be shortened?

mother of Adam

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> <<Sorry I'm so cluless; I am a single working mother and have never

made homemade baby food or purees.>>

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> Boiling is fine- baking is fine- steaming is fine. Well-cooked...

till very soft... by whatever method.

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> On a day off, once you're past the intro diet... peel, cut up and

steam a butternut squash until very tender. Put it all in your

blender... add some chicken broth (left over from your soup) and

blend until nicely pureed. You may have to experiment with how much

broth to get the consistency right.

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> Cool, then spoon the squash puree into your saved baby food jars,

or ice cube trays.... once frozen, you can pop them out and store two

or three cubes in whatever storage container you like best (ziplock,

glass jars, Pyrex dish, etc.). VOILA! You have made perfectly

wonderful, SCD-legal baby food!

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> <<I think mine needs to be CF for a while. Not sure how I'll tell

when it's okay to start dairy again.>>

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> Worry about that later. Most give it several months and then start

with a very small amount of goat yogurt.

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> <<I have some probiotics that is meant for kids that I got at the

health food store but it's not on the legal list, so I will probably

have to get new probiotics that are legal.>>

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> The list on www.pecanbread.com does not have every brand of

probiotic that is legal.... we can't possibly verify every one

that's out there. Take a look at the list of legal/illegal supplement

additives and read the label on your bottle. Likely it contains a

form of " bifidus " ... or " bifidum " bacteria, which is one you need to

avoid..... not to mention any fillers or starch-based additives.

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> Patti

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> What's a Bamix?

http://www.fykitchen.com/Results.cfm?keywords=bamix

The Bamix is a super deluxe overpriced that the professional chefs like.

A Braun at around $35.pp will do nicely.

Since Elaine prompted me to get a Cusinart Food processor I find it the most

useful of all

appliances for SCD and it comes in a small size too.

http://www.cuisinart.com/

Here are the smaller models. ignore the ones that are very expensive

DFP-3

Handy Prep™ 3-Cup Food Processor

$110.00

DLC-2A

Mini-Prep® Plus Processor

$60.00

DLC-1

Mini-Prep® Processor

$48.00

Carol F.

SCD 6 years

[Guest guest]

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<< chicken (unless hidden in tomato sauce,

sweet potatoes or squash in small amounts), turkey (ditto), >>

I know you probably already know this... but sweet potatoes aren't allowed.

Do remember that the " Stages " chart is just a general guideline. It roughly

groups the foods into categories according to how easy they are to digest. It

should be used as a basic guideline, but is not really part of SCD as Elaine

wrote it, and you don't need to follow it to the letter if that just won't work

for your child.

If you use tomatoes early on (after intro) make sure they are peeled,

de-seeded, cooked and pureed (as you would anyway for sauce)... and that should

make them easy enough to digest.

Some squashes are more fibrous than others. Butternut squash is very finely

textured and would be easier to digest (cooked and pureed) than ... say,

spagetti squash... or even acorn squash, with it's stringier, more fibrous

texture.

Just use general common sense. You can make this work. You may be surprised at

what he will accept after a bit of time on SCD!

Patti

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[Guest guest]

> If you use tomatoes early on (after intro) make sure they are

> peeled, de-seeded, cooked and pureed (as you would anyway for

> sauce)... and that should make them easy enough to digest.

Piggybacking on Patti's advice, I have always used simmered down tomato

juice to make tomato sauce and can control the desired degree of

thickness..

Carol F.

Celiac, MCS, Latex Allergy, EMS

SCD 6 years

[Guest guest]

> What's a Bamix?

Here is the site. I have the mid grade one and love it. I use it

almost daily and many days many times a day.

Sandy M.

[Guest guest]

I guess it depends on how you use your hand held. I burned two

Brauns up before I bought my bamix. I also have the cusinart and I

us it for doing up the nuts but I make BIG batches of stuff so I

only have to back once or twice a week. The bamix works wonderful

for this. It is also great for making my kids their milk shakes(SCD

yogart, a little honey and vanila). I mix it up in a quart jar and

can store the left over in the jar.

The hand held just rinces off under running water(need to do this

one right a way for ease of cleaning.)

I also really like my large cusinart at I can do 6 or 7 cups of nuts

at a time. This really saves me time. I can be chopping nuts while

I am getting other ingredients ready for the nut flour.

Sandy M.

> >

> > What's a Bamix?

>

> http://www.fykitchen.com/Results.cfm?keywords=bamix

>

> The Bamix is a super deluxe overpriced that the professional chefs

like.

>

> A Braun at around $35.pp will do nicely.

>

> Since Elaine prompted me to get a Cusinart Food processor I find

it the most useful of all

> appliances for SCD and it comes in a small size too.

>

> http://www.cuisinart.com/

>

> Here are the smaller models. ignore the ones that are very

expensive

>

> DFP-3

> Handy Prep™ 3-Cup Food Processor

> $110.00

>

>

> DLC-2A

> Mini-Prep® Plus Processor

> $60.00

>

>

>

> DLC-1

> Mini-Prep® Processor

> $48.00

>

> Carol F.

> SCD 6 years

>