Peas & Carrots Podcast and Blog From Fresh Baby

Welcome

Welcome to our Peas & Carrots podcast and blog.  We know parents and caregivers are pressed for time, but want to know what they can do to promote healthy eating habits for their baby. So whether you are nursing, exercising, driving to work, or surfing the web, we hope you enjoy listening and reading our information.  Our goal is to make it SO EASY for parents to raise a healthy eater!

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Happy Parenting!

Tray Tip #1: Toddler Snacking Tray

Toddlers have little tummies that fill up quickly, and they are very active so they quickly burn calories. To keep your hungry toddler happy offering small servings of healthy snack choices is the trick. Use your Fresh Baby Trays to have snack “at the ready” any time of day!

The concept is simple, at the beginning of each day fill up the compartments of a tray with healthy snack choices. Place the lid on it and store it in the fridge. When your toddler asks for a snack, simply take the tray out and place it on the table. Let your little one choose which snack foods they want. When they are done, put the cover back on and it's back in the fridge to wait for the next request.

Using a snacking tray teaches your toddler to make choices, offers them plenty of variety, and makes it easy and convenient for you to answer ever so common cry of "I'm hungry!"

New BLOG Section: Tray Tips

Many of our customers are beyond the baby food stage and are the proud owners of a few sets of SO Easy Baby Food Storage Trays. These nifty little covered trays have many uses. We’ve started a NEW section of our Blog called “Tray Tips”, so we can share these great tips with you.

If you would like to contribute an idea, we woudl love to hear it! Please e-mail us.

FYI: Fresh Baby's So Easy Baby Food Trays have ALWAYS been free of BP-A, Phthlates, and PVC.

It's So Easy being green!

Are you looking to reduce your carbon footprint? Making organic baby food is a great way to go. Consider the GREEN facts:

Organic- Organic fruits and vegetables are the best choice for making baby food. They are the most natural ingredients and organic foods drastically reduce harm to the environment.

Less waste – When you make your own baby food, there are no jars, labels or metal lids to dispose or to recycle.

No factory required - Just a little energy to steam foods and run a blender is all you need to make your baby’s meals! Did someone say near “zero” greenhouse gases?

Local – Your baby’s food does not need to trucked to you from a factory thousands of miles away. Instead you can simply buy organic produce from your local farm market and get started.

Healthy - Homemade baby food is safe and nutritious.  Baby food jars are often lined with bisphenol-A, a controversial hormone disruptor that should be avoided. In addition, homemade baby food has no preservatives, additives or chemicals – it is pure and natural goodness.

10 Times Rule

You may have started to notice that your baby or toddler is becoming quite skeptical – of just about everything. If you thought this behavior was unique to your child, think again. This is a normal development phase. When it comes to eating, there’s actually a study that was conducted with toddler age children that concluded a child may need to see a food on their plate up to 10 times before they will eat it.

We like to refer to this study as the 10 Times Rule. Learn more about it and tips to help you successfully turn a skeptic into a healthy eater!



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Variety Is the Spice of Life

Variety is also the key to a balanced diet. All foods contain different vitamins, minerals and nutrients. So it makes sense that if you feed your baby a good variety of foods, your little one will also get a good variety of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients.

Happy New Year from everyone at Fresh Baby!

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Don't Give Up!

Nurturing healthy eating habits take some patience and persistence. Don’t get caught making assumptions about the foods your baby likes and doesn’t like based on the first few reactions.


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Water, water, everywhere...

  …let’s hope there is plenty to drink! Water nourishes the body in so many ways. Drinking water is great healthy habit and when you baby starts eating real food, it is the perfect time to introduce water too.


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To the market with baby

Whether you’re off to the supermarket or the local farm stand take your baby along for the trip and make it fun. Seeing colorful displays, smelling different fruits, or touching bumpy vegetables will bring your child closer to healthy foods and developing a positive attitude about them.


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Be a Good Role Model

Babies learn through mimicking you and others around them. If you talk negatively about healthy foods (i.e. fruits and vegetables) or don’t eat them much yourself, your baby will have a tough time accepting them. Remember, your baby will respond to what you like.


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10 Healthy Eating Habits

Healthy eating habits are important for your child’s development. It’s best to start early teaching your baby good eating habits, because bad habits can develop quickly and they are hard to break. This podcast summarizes Fresh Baby’s 10 healthy eating habits that can get your baby started on the right path. We’re planning more podcasts that will give details on each of them.


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