Freeze pureed vegies into cute shapes and then use them to cool down kids' food
This beats my "just add frozen peas" hack hands down. From Kelli:
When I would prepare a meal for the whole family our food was either too hot for our preschooler and toddler or too cold for my husband and me. Because we also have a seven month-old baby, we have cubes of pureed veggies sitting in the freezer (I froze them into cute shapes using silicone ice cube trays). So, now when the family meal is ready, I pop a few cubes of pureed veggies into the older girls' food. They love having stars or hearts in their food and it cools their meal down. Plus they get an extra boost of vegetables.
This is one of those hacks that manages to straddle cute and practical. I love it.
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Coincidentally just last week I froze down homemade baby food (broccoli in this case) in our silicone duck ice cube tray. The aesthetics were a bit wasted on our 7-month-old, but I like them, and they were the perfect size: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/dmOAmDKxChj4ZUZwcKoZWA?authkey=Gv1sRgCIzLpPKD8tq3mQE&feat=directlink
Posted by: Maria | 19 October 2009 at 04:56 PM
I do the same with store-bought baby juices, too. Besides cooling food down, the juice also thin down purees that are too thick while adding a Vitamin C boost to the meal.
Posted by: I'Ching Thomas | 19 October 2009 at 09:29 PM
Heh! Green ducks! Great minds obviously think alike, Maria.
Posted by: Parent Hacks Editor | 20 October 2009 at 12:17 AM