Feeding your Baby: Workshop

Introducing solids to your baby is an exciting milestone for any parent. Along with the excitement come many questions, concerns and sometimes even wonder and worry. When should I start my baby on rice cereal? When should I venture to purees? Which purees do I start with? Should they be organic? Do they contain nitrates? Should I make my own or buy the jar kind? If I make my own how do I freeze portions? Gerber? Beechnut? PC Organics? When is it safe to give fish, chicken, meat or eggs? Feeding your baby soon becomes a world of stress and confusion when it should be an exciting time! This informative 3-hour interactive workshop eases the worry and stress and brings back the excitement of this fun milestone. This class will give you all the basics in creating easy, nutritious and delicious meals for your baby from 6 months to toddler.

Feeding your Baby Workshop includes:

• Professional lead by a Registered Holistic Nutritionist
• Nutrition and Your Child’s Immune System
• Eating Organic
• First-stage weaning and meal planner: Six months
• Second-stage weaning and meal planner: Seven to Eight months
• Third-stage meal planner: Nine to Twelve months • Last-stage: Toddlers
• List of local stores and markets to shop
• Shopping List
• Six-Twelve months meal planner, recipes, various samples and a full meal!
Menu:

• ABC Chicken Soup
• Fresh Fruit with Yogurt Dip
• Chicken and Apple Meatballs
• Creamy Avocado Dip
• Fresh Pressed Juice
• Apple Butter teething biscuits - all 100% Certified Organic

Price:

$95 – this 3 hour workshop includes detailed handouts, lecture, interactive demonstrations, Baby Cubes to get you started, various samples and a full meal for you and your baby!
- Space is limited to 4 couples (parent + baby)

Date/location:

My Home Kitchen Toronto, Ontario
Saturday September 11, 2010.
1 - 4pm

ABC Chicken Soup
My family's chicken soup recipe but with a toddler twist. You can add salt if you like, I don't. Nutritious, delicious and fun to eat!


Servings: 8 - Half Cup Servings
Prep time: 5 minutes
Cook time: 1 hour 45 minutes
Total time: 1 hour 50 minutes

Ingredients:
2 medium carrots chopped
3 celery stalks chopped
1 whole roma tomato
1 medium skinless, boneless chicken breast
8 cups water
1/2 cup of Eden Organic Vegetable Alphabets
Directions:
Put the carrots, celery, tomato and chicken breast in a 4-quart saucepan.

Add water

Cover slightly with lid and heat to boiling over high heat.

Reduce heat to medium and let simmer for 1.5 hours, stirring occasionally(the longer you cook the more flavour)

Using tongs remove roma tomato (if there are some bits of tomato in the soup don't worry. Taking the peel out is the most important) and discard.

Also remove the chicken from saucepan to plate and cut into small pieces (easy for baby to eat)

Return chicken to saucepan, increase heat to high and bring soup to a boil.

Add ABC pasta to boiling soup and follow instructions on box.

Once pasta is tender, let soup cool and serve to your little one.

I make this much soup purposely so I can freeze portions.