More food...

We're moving slowly on food. We feed her something solid about every 3 days. She's had rice cereal about 4 or 5 times and I've given her bits of banana, avocado, pear, and apple. Tonight I gave her some baby oatmeal and avocado and she lapped it up. I don't think I'm going to give her rice cereal anymore. It's disgusting. One of my mom-friends even said "gross" when I said I was feeding it to Eleanor and you know...she's right. E's not at the point yet where she needs solids for nutrition, it's more about introducing new flavors and textures and cereal has neither. I bet by the time my kids are parents people will not even feed cereal to babies anymore. I think it's probably a racket and I'm even going to go so far as to say the whole baby food industry is a racket. Most people have a blender and they for dang sure have a fork. How hard is it to mash a banana or some squash? We are steaming veggies for dinner every night anyway and we always have fruit. I'm sure I'll buy some baby food but I really want to do more of a BLW approach.