Baby Brezza Review and Giveaway

Earlier this summer, I was lucky enough to be sent a Baby Brezza One Step Baby Food Maker to review.  Since we did Baby Led Weaning with Penelope, I never got into making pureed baby food. Although, I did make one recipe, before I decided to let her try to eat pieces of whatever we were eating.

If I didn't do Baby Led Weaning, I would have absolutely made her food.  When you make your baby's food you can control ingredients.  You can make food with local, in season and organic vegetables. You can rest easy knowing that there is no BPA in the food from the plastic jars they come in at the store.  You can control price and save money by buying local vegetables that are in season, make a huge batch and freeze it (and we all know how I love to freeze food!).  And then you also get that high and that sense of pride, that comes when you create something with your own two hands.


Around the same time I was sent a copy of ICE POP JOY.  I highly recommend buying the ICE, POP, JOY book if you want to make healthy popsicles for your little one.  The author is an amazing woman, someone I really look up to and admire.  She has so many different and wonderful recipes to try and the photography is stunning.  I love having this book on my kitchen counter, because it is a JOY to look at!


But I thought the Baby Brezza would be perfect for making popsicles, since it has a blend only option. I was so inspired by the book, that I decided to come up with my own recipe, with local, organic blueberries and blackberries.  It tastes amazing, but I can't share it with you yet, because it is going to be published in the upcoming Baby Food Cookbook that Baby Brezza is putting out next Fall!

Speaking of stunning photography, big thanks to Christy Baldwin Photography, for taking the pictures for this post.  She is pretty dang amazing!  I hope I can take pictures like her one day.

Penelope had such fun helping me make our popsicles.  And do you see how color coordinated we are?  I am such a dork, but I had to wear blue to match the popsicles!  That dress was actually the dress my maid of honor wore at my beach wedding, I liked it so much, I bought one for myself.

The Baby Brezza is an all in one.  So you can steam your veggies and then puree it, and only wash one item!

My little helper.

She really liked pressing the buttons.  I will have to be honest, figuring out how to use the Baby Brezza the first time I attempted to use it, it was not totally self explanatory.  I like to be able to whip things out the box and figure it out, without wasting time reading silly things like directions.  So take my advice, just take a moment to read the directions first!!  

And ta da!  Delish home made popsicles.  We used these popsicle molds from Ecological Babies.  I love them!

My beautiful girl loved her popsicles!  This is one of my most favorite pictures of Penelope.  Those eyes kill me!

If you don't have fancy popsicle molds, you can use an ice cube tray and tooth picks.

The Baby Brezza has a pourable spout, so pouring into containers was, wait for it, a breeze!


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Baby Finger Painting Art Project: Part 1

For Peter's first Father's Day, I wanted to make him something special and handmade. I set up the kitchen floor for Penelope to go crazy with the finger paints. It was her very first art session! I taped a plastic tarp down, and then taped several pieces white art paper to the tarp. Then I put four plastic paint containers out, each with a different color. I added a paint brush to each container.
























We used eco-friendly, non-toxic paints and Penelope went to town!























She managed to get as much on her body as she did on the paper.

Cleaning up! I will show you guys the finished product on Tuesday.

Sugar Snap Peas Baby Food

These are some super DELICIOUS sugar snap peas, from Turkey Hill Farm, that I got at the Lake Ella Farmer's Market the other week.

They were picked at the peak of their sweetness and they are oh so yummy. I got enough for me to munch on and to make some for Penelope. I once read about a New York chef, who introduced her babies to solid foods by offering only what was in season.

She figured that by doing it that way, she would always offer a food at their best possible taste and have a better chance of her child liking what she offered. It's a theory I would like to try as well, especially after I read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle last year.

















First, I de-vained the peas, and then I steamed them for just a couple of minutes, not very long at all. You could do this with raw peas too, you get more nutrition out the peas that way.  Next, I put them in my mini food processor and grinded them up good. I left lots of texture though.


















Then I added the secret ingredient...Breast Milk!! Mmm...look at all that yummy fat at the top! If you wondered why Penelope weighs 20 pounds at 5 months, this is why.

The finished product. I put one tablespoon into each ice cube section. My plan is to give these to her frozen in one of those mesh thingys. I thought it might be a soothing teething tool and great way for her to taste the food without choking. I am skipping the whole spoon-feed-pureed-baby-food and going straight to seeing what she can get in her mouth herself.

Mostly out of pure laziness, I do not want to spend lots of time making baby food and dealing with spoon feeding her. It's called Baby Led Weaning, because technically the moment you introduce solids you have begun the weaning process.