Katie Ferraro (1s):

So there are a lot of valuable kitchen tools that help with baby led weaning. But there's also some that you do not need to waste your money on and I'm going to go through those as well. And I'm going to tease it to say, I'm starting with the mesh feeder and this is the absolute most ridiculous baby food item out there. Hey there, I'm Katie Ferraro, Registered Dietitian, college nutrition professor, and mama of seven specializing in baby led weaning. Here on the Baby-Led Weaning Made Easy podcast I help you strip out all of the noise and nonsense about feeding, leaving you with the competence and knowledge you need to give your baby a safe start to solid foods using baby led weaning.

Katie Ferraro (44s):

You guys. Welcome back to another episode of the baby led weaning made easy podcast. I'm your host, Katie Ferraro. I'm a registered dietician and mom of seven specializing in baby led weaning. And I spend a lot of time in the kitchen, which is why today. I'm here to talk about your kitchen sharing the 10 best baby led weaning kitchen tools. Now, if you're a little apprehensive, you don't love to cook. Maybe you don't do it at ton, or maybe you do what you're like, what do I need to tweak? As I start to prep foods for my baby, I think you're going to like this episode now, as I do in every episode, I want to start out with a baby led weaning tip of the day.

Katie Ferraro (1m 24s):

Today's tip is you do not have to buy a bunch of gear to get a safe start with baby led weaning. That's why I love it. You don't have to rush out and buy all this stuff. These are just a few tools. I have found that help with success in the kitchen. Some are smaller than others, but these are gonna, I hope make your life easier. And I'm going to run through each of these 10 best baby led weaning kitchen tools. Now hang tight because I'm also going to share what you don't need for baby led weaning to. There are some really silly baby feeding items out there that I do not want you to waste your time or your money with. So I'll share those quickly at the end of the episode.

Katie Ferraro (2m 4s):

So you'll know what to steer clear from as well. So I was talking to a mom the other day about like, okay, tell me what your absolute favorite tool is. And so everyone's, everyone's idea of what's useful in the kitchen. It's a little bit different. And I would have been sharing mine with this mom. Her name is Alison said that she really loves kitchen sheers. She's like, I use kitchen shears for everything, but I never did so more until I had a baby. So like basically whatever she's making for her family, she has a portion of it. She kind of uses the kitchen shears or kitchen scissors to cut up the foods. And I was like, that's a good one. I, I have a sister who has six kids and literally like, we just buy her kitchen sheers for everything.

Katie Ferraro (2m 44s):

She cuts all the kids' food up when all they're all together with kitchen shears. I personally never do. But every time I see someone do it, I'm like, Hmm, that's an interesting concept. I should maybe do that more, but hopefully today's episode, you guys will pick up some new tools that you're like, Hmm. I, one of those, I just never thought about using it that way. So I'm gonna go ahead and start with some of the smaller items. One of my absolute favorite tools for baby led weaning in the kitchen is a grape cutter. Now, when I first heard of a grape cutter, I was like, what has happened to the world? Like why can't people cut grapes anymore? But I discovered the grape cutter when I started doing baby led weaning with my quadruplets. Now I'd always heard, okay, grapes are dangerous and babies shouldn't eat grapes, but that's not necessarily true whole intact grapes or even halves of grapes certainly can be a choking hazard, but grapes, if you cut them into quarters are perfectly safe to feed your baby.

Katie Ferraro (3m 35s):

So I recommend quartering the grape and that's not an ideal food for a baby who is six or seven months of age. They don't have their pincer grasp yet. They wouldn't be able to pick up those small pieces of grape. And I don't like serving a small pieces of food to early eaters early on. We want to do the longer strips of food that are about the size of an adult pinky finger. And of course, grapes, aren't that size. So hold off on grapes and then offer quarter of grapes to your baby when they get that pincer grasp, which is usually around the eight month mark. And you'll notice that if you start baby led weaning around the six month mark, your baby's been self feeding for about eight weeks. By the time they hit the eight week, mark, you're much less frightened about smaller foods because they're becoming more proficient in chewing and maneuvering food around their mouth.

Katie Ferraro (4m 22s):

That a small piece, like a quarter of a grape is not the choking hazard that it once was when your baby started with solids two months ago. So get a grape cutter. There's a great one from, I like the one from the brand Oxo. They go in and out of stock. So I'm going to link to all of these tools in the show notes page. If you go to my website, blwpodcast.com/ 26, this is episode 26, the 10 best baby led weaning kitchen tools. Then I'll link out to all of these. So you don't have to write them all down. But a note about grapes, I quarter grapes up until about age one, and then at age one, I still cut them in halves. But remember that even beyond that grapes can be a choking hazard for toddlers, especially if they're running around now, your little baby's not running anywhere, but as your baby becomes a toddler and becomes more proficient at eating and we sometimes let our guard down regarding choking hazard, please always that little red flag should go up whenever you are serving grapes or what usually happens.

Katie Ferraro (5m 19s):

Someone else's serving grapes and the kids are walking or running around, could very easily become lodged in their throat. So I just train my kids whenever we're eating anything. We're seated preferably in chairs, but if not possible, then criss-cross on the ground, but certainly not running around eating grapes rather. So the first favorite baby led weaning kitchen tool is a grape cutter. Another one I love I'll do the fruit favorites here. First is an apple corer again, who can't core an apple by themselves. But if you're cooking a bunch of food at a time, which a lot of you guys will be listen, I'm going to prep apples, and I'm going to store or freeze some of the extra. So I don't have to do this every day. A tool like an apple core can help you do a bunch of apples at once.

Katie Ferraro (6m 1s):

Now here with apples, raw crunchy pieces of fruit are not appropriate for babies. Those are a choking hazard. So no rock hard, apple slices or rock crunchy pear slice, or you know, pretty much any fruit. If it's not particularly ripe would be considered, crunchy, stay away from those. If it snaps, it's not okay for your baby, but you can serve apples safely. Right now, I like to do it is to core the apple using the apple core, peel the pieces. Okay. And then I'll put it in a little bit of water and cook it and make cinnamon cooked apples. And you can season them a bunch of different ways as well, but soft cooked apples slices are perfectly appropriate for baby led weaning, but again, we don't do raw or hard or crispy apples.

Katie Ferraro (6m 45s):

So the apple core can help you kind of, if you're prepping a lot of apples at once, so you can cook them again ahead and freeze them. Now, if you're interested in recipes like the cinnamon apples slices, I have a guide called it's an ebook called the quick start guide to baby led weaning it's 16 pages. That's kind of jam packed with like everything you need to get that safe. Start to baby led weaning the cinnamon apples recipe with some variations is in that e-book they also have other tips in there and some other recipes for how you can season your baby's food without salt, because we want our babies to experience a wide array of flavors and spices, just not added sodium or sugar.

Katie Ferraro (7m 27s):

So in the quick start guide to baby led weaning, there's a lot of info in there. If you're not super into cooking without salt, this might be something you want to check out. And again, I'll link to that quick start guide ebook in the show notes page for this episode, which is BLWpodcast.com/ 26. So my third favorite best baby led weaning kitchen tool is another one that works for me, fruit. And that is a cherry pitter. Cherries are a challenge. First of all, because they're messy and they stain. So always do a full coverage bib if you can, but cherries, you cannot serve them with the pit to the baby. So a pitter just makes your life a lot easier. If you are doing a fresh cherries, you can pit a whole bunch of them at once using this tool.

Katie Ferraro (8m 11s):

Again, the one I like is also from the brand OXO. I have a lot of their kitchen tools. I think they're pretty durable. They're a good value for the price. And again, I'll link to that on the show notes, a note about cherries though, for your earlier eaters there, if it's not cherry season, which I live in San Diego, I feel like cherry season is like a hot second, and then they're gone, but you can do canned cherries, obviously canned fruits that have added sugar or syrup. Those are not appropriate for baby led weaning, but you would be surprised even in a traditional grocery store, you can find candy cherries packed in water. So they've already been pitted and they're, they're not packed in a sugary syrup. So keep an eye out for those as a way to do cherries for your baby.

Katie Ferraro (8m 52s):

Sometimes they're a little on the tart side, which is really cool too, because then your baby experience that new flavor again without the added sugar. So that's the cherry pitter, another cheap, cheap, cheap kitchen tool that I love. And I only recognize my love of it because my friend introduced me to how you can use it for baby led. Weaning is the crinkle cutter. So I have to be honest, I've had a crinkle cutter living in the back of a kitchen drawer for years. Then it wasn't until my colleague Dawn Winkleman. Who's a speech language pathologist that I do fair amount of work with. She was like, how do you not use the crinkle cutter? I was like, I don't know, like, what do you do with the crinkle cutter? Oh my gosh, she cuts tofu with the crinkle cutter. She cuts cooked zucchini, cooked vegetables, like carrot and sweet potato. They do to make them about the size of the strip.

Katie Ferraro (9m 35s):

That's the size of your adult finger. And she uses that as a way to, to kind of change up some of the sensory experience for your baby as they're going to try new foods. So not only visually, does it look different, but the little ridges or the grooves on the strips of food, make it easier for your baby to rake or scoop up that food, especially early on before they have their pincer grasp. So I think I have like a two or $3 cutter. And again, I have that linked in the show notes page for you too. If you want to check it out again, we don't use it on hard or crispy foods, but for any kind of soft stick foods that you might be cutting, try to mix it up with a crinkle cutter. Your baby will actually enjoy it as well.

Katie Ferraro (10m 16s):

And it looks really cute next up on the list of the 10 best baby led weaning kitchen tools. I have recently fallen hook line and sinker for stasher bags. This is not sponsored content whatsoever. I don't have any formal work relationship with Stasher love they're reusable, silicone storage bags. So I've been, I'm trying to eliminate plastic in my kitchen as much as possible. The American academy of pediatrics reminds us that we do want, you know, common food additives may pose risks to children, and this includes plastic. So I'm trying to cut out plastic where I can. And certainly in my food storage containers is one place I thought, all right, I can make a dent here.

Katie Ferraro (10m 57s):

So the best bags that I've found are the Stasher. It's S T a S H E R. I use these for, for sandwiches, for kids for school or snacks recently started using there. They have some standup ones that hold like larger containers of leftovers. My husband uses them. He loves to sous vide different foods for our family. And so you can actually seal them and they work in the sous vide as well. So there's a lot of, I think, flexibility there, they are a little on the pricier side, but I have a bunch of them and I've had them for almost two years now. And they're good as new. So if you're prepping additional food that you want to freeze or store in the refrigerator, even for things like soups, these bags are so durable, they've worked really well.

Katie Ferraro (11m 41s):

Check out the stash, your bags. They also help you cut back on plastic in your kitchen. Another tool that you might want to check out is called the lucky iron fish. Now I mentioned this back in episode 21, the three easy ways to increase iron absorption, but a lucky iron fish is an iron ingot that you can cook with for certain foods like soups and broths, more the liquidy foods that you're making that has the potential to increase iron release from foods. So I make a creamy carrot soup that works great for baby led weaning because you can of course, boil or roast carrot strips to serve to babies. And that's fine, but we talk about how babies may need to see a food 10 or 15 times before they like or accept it.

Katie Ferraro (12m 23s):

So we want to mix up the ways that we're offering foods like carrots. So, you know, I don't know about you, but I get sick of boiled carrot strips. There's a great stew. You can make soups and stews for babies, especially older babies who get a little more proficient with their tiny spoons, but you can also for earlier babies even drain off, a lot of the liquid kind of make a chunkier soup. That's a new texture, the baby, a different temperature experience. Of course, we don't want to serve it hot, but warm. They will eat it a little bit with their hands, but you can also help practice with self-feeding spoon. And I also like to use thicker soups to put in the baby's tiny cup to help them practice with their open cup drinking as well.

Katie Ferraro (13m 5s):

So you might have heard, but it's a good idea to start your baby drinking out of it and open cup as early as six months of age. Now, your baby's not going to get proficient right off the bat, but practice does make perfect. And by the age of one, the feeding goal is to have the baby drinking out of an open cup with minimal spillage. And so the cup that I like for, for open cup drinking is called the tiny cup. That's also from ezpz Dawn, the colleague and friend that I was telling you about with the crinkle cutter. She actually designed both the tiny spoon and the tiny cup for the company, ezpz. They both really revolutionized the baby led weaning space.

Katie Ferraro (13m 47s):

These are tools that are appropriate and developmentally designed for babies aged six to 12 months to give them a safe start to solid food. Safety is of course important, but I think almost equally as important is to help you build an independent self feeding baby. They need to have the right tools. So I like to do this creamy carrot soup that I make with the lucky iron fish, a little bit higher iron there's a couple of studies, one particular study out of India that shows that the iron fish using that in cooking helps to increase iron release from foods by up to 16%. So the lucky iron fish make the creamy carrot soup serve it in the open cup. You'd be amazed how quickly your baby can start drinking from an open cup.

Katie Ferraro (14m 31s):

When you do the open cup, I like to do either just breast milk or formula. I don't do water as a thin liquid. It can be more challenging for your baby to drink. I did a whole episode about water. If you go back to episode 24, it's called water when to offer your baby water and how much I talk more about what you want to be serving out of the open cup, but spoiler alert, it's not water. So next up on the list of my 10 favorite or best baby led weaning kitchen tools is a food processor. Now I'm getting into like the little bit more pricier items. Some of these you might have and never use some, you might be like, okay, I've been meaning to get that. So maybe baby led weaning is the impetus that you need to do it. But I personally, I can't remember the last time I cut an onion that was not in the food processor.

Katie Ferraro (15m 13s):

And I know like the true foodies in the chefs out there are going to be like, oh, but you can tell the difference. I promise you babies cannot tell the difference. If you cut the onion with your incredible knife skills, or if you did it in the food processor. So personally having a large family, seven kids cooking regularly for 10 people or more every day, there's always someone else over here. I use the 14 cup Cuisinart food processor. I've had it since I got married. So 12 or 13 years at I can't remember, but it's 14 cups. I remember that. I don't know how many years I've been married for, but I use the food processor for things like cutting up vegetables, for example, Brussels sprouts. So Brussels sprouts on their own are not safe to serve to babies. And if you do make them safe, they're so mushy, they taste terrible.

Katie Ferraro (15m 54s):

So I like to do shaved brussel sprouts and make Brussels sprouts fritters for the babies. I would just use the shredder attachment on my food processor. Almost every single recipe I make for baby led weaning. I would utilize the food processor and I'm not a big fan of appliances that go on your countertop. Like I don't like to look at them. The food processor is one. My husband's like you use this multiple times a day. Like, why are you always putting it away in the cabinets? Like I know I should probably just leave it on the counter, but the food processor is a heavy use item in a baby led weaning kitchen. Another one that he used a lot is the instant pot. Now don't tune out because I said instant pot. And you're like, oh, everyone loves an instant pot. I was a late adopter to the instant pot. I did not love the instant pot early on because I was like, I already have a three in one electric cooker.

Katie Ferraro (16m 40s):

And I still have it for many years and I it's a workhorse, but the instant pot, I wanted to learn how to make yogurt at home because yogurt is a wonderful food for baby led weaning, but it can be really expensive. So it was like, if I can make it with whole milk, which is cheaper than yogurt and use a yogurt starter, I feel like I would be saving some money. So I got an instant pot that has the yogurt setting on it. And it took me a long time to figure out how to make yogurt in the instant pot. And it wasn't until I got Jenna Hedwig's book. So I don't know if you guys follow her on Instagram, but she's at real baby food. And she writes cookbooks with baby led weaning recipes, and she did one, four and a three in one cooker, basically an instant pot.

Katie Ferraro (17m 21s):

So I'll link to her instant pot baby led weaning cookbook in the show notes here again, that's BLWpodcast.com/ 26. Her recipe for making yogurt for baby led weaning is spot on. I don't know what I was doing wrong until I had her recipe, but a couple of other recipes that I make in the instant pot, I love to do black lentils. So I like to make Indian dal. I'm pretty good at yellow by myself, but for whatever reason, I need to make the black one in an instant pot. I also do hard boiled eggs in the instant pot. I know you can do hard boiled eggs on a stove top, but like the timing is much faster in the instant pot. So sometimes in the morning, if I'm can make a dozen hard boiled eggs in a few minutes, it takes a lot less time and even less cleanup.

Katie Ferraro (18m 1s):

I feel like then just doing it on the stove top. And hard-boiled eggs are a great way for your baby to experience a rubbery texture that they don't get elsewhere. I also do instant pot steel cut oats. You basically use the instant pot for recipes that I forgot to start earlier and I need to speed them up. So I use the pressure cooker setting a lot, but I also use the slow cooker. The yogurt setting is great. It can brown. I mean, there's a lot of utility, I think in one device, the next tool that I use it's a little bit on the larger side is an air fryer. Again, I held out on the air fryer for a long time, but we have the XL. I still wish it was bigger, but it's basically a way that you can instead of frying with a lot of oil.

Katie Ferraro (18m 42s):

And there's no problem. I like to use oil for babies for baby led weaning. I'm glad I have this because I know a lot of adults use the air fryer to like quote unquote fry for lower calorie fried foods. I don't really use it for like that for baby led weaning. I use it for a totally different reason because the texture of the foods that you make in an air fryer is different than what you can achieve from your typical kitchen appliances. So again, I mentioned, I'm not a fan of countertop appliances. The air fryer is a little clunky. It does live in a cabinet out of sight. Out of mind. I definitely don't use it as frequently as the instant pot or the food processor, but I sometimes at the beginning of the week, we'll pick out, okay, these are at least two recipes I want to make using the air fryer. A good one that I do a lot are these pistachio crusted tofu nuggets.

Katie Ferraro (19m 24s):

It's not a food I do for six and seven month olds. But once your baby's a little bit bigger, you've already introduced them to tree nut. You know, Intact nuts are a choking hazard, but if you crush them up very small and make like a breading or a coating, they go great for tofu nuggets, which come out with a really cool texture inside of the air fryer. So again, I'll link to a blog post in the show notes that has that recipe for you. If you guys want to check it out, then the last tool that I recommend, this one's a little out there again on the bigger side, but I really love the learning tower from little partners. And I post a lot of videos with my kids helping to make different recipes. And people are like, what is that tower? Your kids are standing in.

Katie Ferraro (20m 4s):

So if your kids want to cook, obviously having them on the counter is annoying. I guess it depends how much counter space you have. It's also not safe. So I like a tower that you pull up to the side of the kitchen counter, that the kids can stand in safely to help cook. Now, if you have a six month old baby, you're like my baby can't stand up. It's just something to think about down the road. But if you have toddlers who are perhaps exhibiting some signs of picky eating one of the ways to get them interested more in preparing foods and eating foods, you know, the foods that they help prepare, they're more inclined to eat is to involve them in the kitchen. And I know cooking with toddlers is not for everyone, but if you do have a little bit of extra time, get them set up in the tower, give them a task when they're more engaged in the foods that they're making, especially if they're helping to make it for babies.

Katie Ferraro (20m 48s):

Hey, you know, baby, Tom is trying a tofu today. Do you want to be a brave brother and show how you make the tofu or explain what color the tofu is? Or what does it feel like or tastes like? You know, having the kids write with you there at the countertop and not worrying that they're going to fall off the Barstool and crack their head is helpful. So we use the one from little partners. It's spacious. I've put like up to five toddlers in it. I'm sure that's not a recommended by the brand, but you can put a couple of kids in there safely. It's a little bit bulky. Like I, it in my garage and then pull it in, which is kind of annoying. But the kids, they always ask for it, like at the tower and if they want to help cook. So it's just a way that I like to kind of preserve the sanity in the kitchen when I'm trying to make foods for the babies.

Katie Ferraro (21m 31s):

And then I've seen, like, I know my sister-in-law just got one for her daughter who only recently turned one. She was like 18 months toddling around. She can climb up into the, the tower and be safe, standing there next to mom at the counter when she's making foods for dinner. So those are my 10 best baby led weaning kitchen tools. I promised you that I would also recommend or mentioned tools that I don't like. I don't want to mention any by brand, but there are a lot of really gimmicky things out there related to feeding that. I don't think you need to waste your time on so real quick, I want to run. Yeah. Through those, the first one being the mesh teether, the mesh feeding bag, they're tremendously popular because they appear to allay parents' fears associated with choking.

Katie Ferraro (22m 14s):

But a mesh feeder bag really takes away your baby's ability to truly explore and experience perfectly safe foods that don't require a quote unquote barrier. So they're this like plastic contraption that has a mesh bag put on it and you put some fruit in there and then you give it to the baby to suck on. To be honest, these are dangerous for babies who already have teeth. It says all over the packaging, don't use a mesh feeder to serve to a baby with teeth. And yet parents throw the packaging out and I routinely see them using it. I have a family member who unfortunately did use a mesh either for her baby who had a tooth that baby pulling the mesh Teeter bag against the front tooth actually popped out her front baby tooth at like nine months of age.

Katie Ferraro (22m 56s):

And only recently did this baby become a five-year-old who lost her other front tooth. It looks like all the other five-year-olds because now she's missing a front tooth. But unfortunately there was nothing they could do. This baby was missing her baby tooth, not the end of the world, but you know, your baby needs those teeth to kind of continue the experience of learning how to eat. Let's not sacrifice them for a meshed either, which is rather unnecessary mesh teethers. There's give the illusion also that babies can't eat whole intact food, like soft fruits and vegetables, meats, and starches, which they totally can. That's precisely what baby led weaning helps babies do. So I think a mesh teether, there is not only unnecessary and gimmicky. It gives the false association, oh gosh, this makes the food safer for my baby, rather than I think parents need to learn how to make food safe for their baby.

Katie Ferraro (23m 42s):

Not put everything in a mesh feeder, and assume it's going to be safe. So think this is one you could totally bypass. Another one is spoons that squirt the same sister-in-law who had the baby with the tooth fallout gave me one of these spoons. We've had our eldest children within one week of each other. So she was always buying me like wacky baby gear. She found on Amazon. And there was this spoon that you like pushed up here until the end of, and then you, it was like a hollowed out tube on the handle. And then you would squirt the food into the baby's mouth. And I was like, even when I didn't know anything about it, baby led weaning. I was like, that seems a little ridiculous. Like the design of this has not changed over centuries, probably for a reason. You guys, babies can start using a spoon around six months of age.

Katie Ferraro (24m 23s):

Yes. At first you have to preload this boon and offer it to your baby. You may have to help your baby bring the spoon to their mouth, but this is totally different from squirting food into your baby's mouth. As you can, you know, the visual probably you can assume really flies in the face of everything that baby led weaning is about, which is allowing your baby to be in charge and regulating their own intake. Not us squirting food from a pouch or a spoon when there's perfectly safe ways for babies to eat foods on spoons. If they, if we do the preloaded spoon technique or cooking soft versions of those foods, we don't have to puree everything for weeks and months on end. So again, the spoon that I do prefer for baby led weaning is called the tiny spoon from ezpz.

Katie Ferraro (25m 6s):

You guys can get 10% off all of the ezpz products with the code, Katie 10 I'll link to those in the show notes that those are the spoons along with the tiny cup that Dawn Winkleman designed for ezpz. Another one parents ask me about all the time on my workshops is I got this fancy baby food maker for my baby shower. Which brand do you like? Or how do I use it? I have received my fair share of baby food makers sent to me from various baby feeding companies over the years. Most of them are nothing more than a steamer that then purees food and not to be sarcastic, but I have two items in my kitchen that already do this one is called a pot. And then also my hands or a spoon or a fork can do pretty much the same thing the food maker does.

Katie Ferraro (25m 49s):

And then the baby food maker companies say, oh, but then we serve it at the right temperature. Sure. Like, well, I can also leave that food on the counter until it gets to the right temperature, test it with my clean finger to see if it's safe to feed my baby. You guys get the point here. Like some of this more expensive baby food gear claims to make all these things that you're like, gosh, you know, use common sense. If at the end of the day you could do it yourself. Like why would you spend a couple hundred bucks on a device that you're literally going to use for days, right? Even if you're doing my purees for a few days, approach to baby led weaning, you only puree foods for a few days. Why would you go buy an expensive contraption that you're only going to use for a few days? I think personally, as a parent and caregivers, you guys can manipulate the consistency and regulate the temperature as part of your jobs associated with feeding your babies.

Katie Ferraro (26m 34s):

Last one that I think is a ridiculous waste of money, but just doesn't go away. Our produce washes don't even get me started on produce washes. You guys, you know which ones they are. They're the ones that basically claimed that water. Isn't good enough to wash, quote, potentially harmful pathogens off your food that you're about to feed to your baby. Produce washes. As far as I'm concerned are another, in a long line of unnecessary gizmos and gadgets that they help you faint. Like they feign safety with food. There's nothing wrong with water and friction. You don't need to go waste your money on a produce wash. The CDC actually maintains that washing your fruits and vegetables under water is the recommended routine for removing general pathogens. You use a little bit elbow grease, some friction, run it under the running water.

Katie Ferraro (27m 17s):

You use your hands, a scrub stuff, a clean scrub brush. Save your money on fancy produce washes. You don't need them. So there you have it. 10 of my favorite baby led weaning kitchen tools for that. I don't think you need to waste your money on linking everything from this episode in the show notes, that's blwpodcast.com/ 26. I'm also going to link up to that quick start guide for baby led weaning. My ebook that I shared has a bunch of seasoning recipes and combination food recipes, like the cinnamon cooked apples. It's got my curried cauliflower in there. If you're looking for some easy recipes that don't have a lot of sodium, you're going to want to check out that quick start guide e-book. So a little bit long today.

Katie Ferraro (27m 57s):

Sorry guys, but I love talking about kitchen stuff. I hope you found this helpful as well, and I'll see you next time. Bye now!