The Challenge of Traveling, the SANDWICH and sipping from a straw!

Traveling with BF has been no easy task for food. Staying in a hotel without a kitchen and only a frig has forced us to rely on jarred baby food. Not the end of the world, but not the "fresh" food we usually try to feed BF. Going out and trying to feed BF off our plates has it's ups and downs. Some meals she didn't like: salmon with a balsamic glaze; and other meals she loved: spinach omelets with a pumpkin muffin.

What we found happening was giving her more carbs than we ordinarily would were we home making homemade. Today BF needed some protein and we got a turkey sandwich on whole wheat bread with avocado. Rather than take it apart, she loves to take bites out of our sandwiches, so we let her take bites from the sandwich instead of pulling it apart. What a great breakthrough. Not only was this easy, a full compliment of veggie, protein and carb, but she was able to get large bites into her mouth which she loves to do. A banana for dessert and it was a perfect meal. She was fully satisfied and so were we!!!

While having lunch in a restaurant the other day, when feeding her was less successful, we'd forgotten to bring along BF's sippy cup. BTW we are using the Born Free brand available at Whole Foods. This brand does not contain the chemical bishpheno A, BPA found in polycarbonates. You may find more information about this issue at WebMD and Washingtonpost.com .

What to do to give BF something to drink. Sip from a straw, but how. Grammie Flava remembered what the kids used to do when they were little. Place the straw in the cup of liquid, place your finger on the top of the straw trapping the liquid in the straw. Bring it out of the cup, put the straw in your mouth and remove your top finger. The liquid goes into your mouth.

So I did this with BF for a while and all of a sudden she got the idea to suck the water from the straw to get it faster and voila...sipping from a straw was started. A few more times and now BF can sip from a straw. A great benefit when out if you forget the sippy cup! But now I have to research if plastic straws have BFA. A never ending journey.