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At Easter I thought it would be Tillamook’s Garlic White Cheddar.  I was wrong.  Ella doesn’t seem to like pureed food as much as something that she can grab and chew.  At her 7 month check up, I asked the pediatrician what we could give her and was told that pretty much anything except Gerber graduates rice puffs were a choking hazard.  In the following month, I searched for things that she could eat.  We added well cooked pieces of fruits and veggies, pieces of avocado, and pieces of scrambled egg yolk to her list of finger foods with which she is successful.  Freeze dried fruit was suggested to me, but the only kinds I could find had strawberry in them (which Ella is not quite ready for yet).  One day, I happened upon a package of freeze-dried apples in Wal-mart.  They were $1 a pack and each contained the equivalent of 1.5 apples–it seemed quite the deal.  By lunchtime, both Ella and I were hooked.  I looked up the brand on the internet and discovered they had quite a few different flavors and that I could get a subscription on Amazon for a great discount.  Our favorite flavor is still apple, followed closely by pear.  They keep for a year (can you say food storage and 72 hr kits?).  Hooray for freeze-dried foods!

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