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Used to baby grabbing food off your plate? Well get ready to return the favor. Sprout Organic baby food from celeb chef Tyler Florence is so scrumptious, you’ll find it tough to resist sharing with your wee one. The Food Network star and father of three wouldn’t have it any other way. He created Sprout to be not just wholesome, but totally delicious, and our babies are eating it up! Sprout’s Stage 1 line includes Roasted Pears and Roasted Bananas—not steamed, but oven-roasted to bring out the fruits’ intense sweetness and complexity. The Stage 2 group has a chunkier texture our little ones love and fab combos like Sweet Potatoes with White Beans and Pasta with Lentil Bolognese.
All Sprout ingredients are 100% organic, and Florence’s company is committed to limiting children’s exposure to toxins, preventing water contamination from chemical runoff and promoting healthy soil. Amen to that. And while we really wish Sprout’s foil-lined packages were recyclable—the company does, too, and says it’s working to find a manufacturer that can make a recyclable food-safe pouch—we applaud them for being BPA-free and lightweight (reducing the amount of energy required for product transportation). You can pick your favorite Sprout at SproutBaby, the eco-friendly online store that’s not just Florence’s exclusive online distributor, but a terrific place to get other great green baby stuff like Green to Grow bottles, Clean Well wipes and more.
Small-batch, slow-simmered—so far, so good. All-organic, perfectly pure—yeah, baby! Applying the same techniques he honed as chef at two- and three-Michelin-star restaurants in his native France, 22-year culinary veteran and restaurateur Laurent Brazier is the toque behind the tasty offerings served up by Pomme Bebe. Pomme’s seasonal menus are divided into Basics, Blends and Tots, and feature such delish dishes as Pear-Kiwi-Apricot Puree, Spinach-Sweet Potato Puree, Chicken Saltimbocca and Homemade Minestrone. Drool much? Sure, fresh is best—and Pomme Bebe fresh organic baby food is best consumed within three days of purchase. But when we and our weebies don’t have time to pop into Pomme Bebe’s super-hip Newport Beach, CA “bebe-bar” (yes, you heard right), we love that we can get our Pomme yums flash frozen and shipped right to our door in eco-friendly insulated containers.
The dynamic duo behind Petite Palate aren’t just eco-minded mompreneurs, they’re also trained chefs: partner Lisa Beels is a Cordon Bleu graduate and Christine Naylor a California Culinary Academy alum. Together the two fans of French cooking whip up some of the tastiest organic baby food we’ve found. Our little ones especially love Petite Palate’s bouquet-garni-infused Lentil Stew and Banana-Peach Blend with a hint of tummy-settling ginger. And we love that Petite Palate uses only grower-direct organic produce in its flash-frozen baby meals. Want some great tips on getting your little one to not just eat but love his organic veggies? Check out Petite Palate’s Web site, which is chock full of feeding facts and philosophies—all tres French, all tres green, naturally.
–This article was originally written for EcoStiletto Kids by Natasha Garber, the former editor of Los Angeles Family magazine. Currently, she is a freelance contributing editor for Special Events Magazine and a contributor to numerous lifestyle publications across the country, where she covers green events and event planning, sustainable catering and cuisine, fashion and design trends. A mother of two and passionate proponent of eco-conscious family living, Natasha lives, writes, parents, plays and makes fresh, organic, totally delicious baby food (just ask her 6-month-old) in Los Angeles.
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