Ellie's Diet

Here is the post I promised about Ellie's diet. Many of you have seen the green bottles of food we are feeding Ellie and have inquired about what she is eating.

When we were leaving the hospital, we asked them what we would feed Ellie after she was weaned off of breastmilk. (I couldn't envision pumping forever for Ellie!) They told us she would get a formula like pediasure for the rest of her life. I wasn't satisfied with that answer, so I started researching different options. I found a group of people online who were giving their children a blenderized diet of whole foods, and I knew that was what I wanted to do too. Why couldn't Ellie eat a diet of whole foods like the rest of us?

Ellie was slowly introduced to solids at around a year with yogurt and bananas. After I got a dietician on board with my plan, we introduced more foods over the last 2-3 months to where she is now-at her goal diet. As far as I can tell, Ellie is one of the first children in Grand Rapids to eat a blenderized diet through her tube--we love being the guinea pig :) Ellie is doing great on her diet and growing like a weed. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.

Here is how I make her food:
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fresh ingredients:
1/2 cup yogurt
2 Tbsp left over oatmeal
1 Tbsp flax seed
2 Tbsp wheat germ
30 grams raw spinach
1 Tbsp baby prunes

frozen in ice cube trays:
1 Tbsp banana
2 Tbsp pear
2 Tbsp chicken
2 Tbsp sweet potato
1 Tbsp avocado

Place the above ingredients in blender along with 12 ounces water.


Blend on high.


Add a total of 12 ounces of milk. Ellie gets 50/50 whole milk and breastmilk.


I add two multidophilus capsules and some salt and a multivitamin.


Blend again, then divide into Ellie's 5 meals. Each meal she gets the same amount of food.


Our little organic baby :)


Additional Resources:
http://www.mealtimenotions.com/HomemadeBlendedFormulaHandbook.htm
http://www.blenderizeddiet.com/