Baby Flava started many years ago

Hi from Grammie Flava! My first posting is appropriately on the eve of Mama Flava's Birthday. In those days, when Mama Flava was born, there was no such thing as organic or natural in the grocery store. There were "health food stores" and boy were you looked at cross eyed if you went there...and costly, wow. There weren't any choices for baby food, there were Gerber jars and Zwiebac. And who knows what was in them. La Leche League was considered a group of crazy woman who wouldn't use formula for their babies and took breast feeding way to far...past a month.

Back then, baby food was EXPENSIVE to those of us on a fixed budget...what was one to do. Make your own of course. No Cuisinarts to "mash" things up but I did have a coffee grinder. If it could pulverize coffee beans....why not. So Baby Flava was really born right along with Mama Flava. I blended up whatever we were eating for dinner...chicken, greenbeans, carrots (oh how she hates carrots now!!). When Great Grandma went shopping and bought an extra skirt steak and asparagus for us...Mama Flava had pureed skirt steak and asparagus for dinner.

So when the new baby came along...we continued on with the tradition. Only now it is much easier and it's lots more fun. We have big Cuisinarts, small Cuisinarts, super blenders, immersion blenders...we can puree anything, even an old shoe if we wanted to!