So my latest obsession is baby food. HD has been eating the real thing (i.e. not just sucking on me) for over two months now and I am in constant conflict about what and when to feed him. Many of my baby mama friends are making their own food and freezing it. I've pureed a few random fruits for him, but he doesn't seem to like that nearly as much as the jarred organic goodness I'm giving him. This could be the more "exotic" and strong tasting nature of the items I've chosen to puree: mango, avocado, blueberry. 
The food book I got says there's a way to avoid the obsession between making and buying food - just feed them from the table. Only one catch, what's on my table, when there IS something on my table, is often frozen, pre-made, or take-out. And I still haven't given up visions that BH and I are going to outgrow this kind of eating by the time HD can tell what we're eating so he can develop super-fabulous eating habits as a young child. And, since I've been home with him, I have actually cooked things that can be considered meals on occasion. He, however, is not quite into any kind of texture yet, and if the face he made when I put a Cheerio or tiny piece of tomato in his mouth wasn't so cute, I probably wouldn't try to do it nearly as often as I do.
My more experienced baby mama friends (read: those who have babies at least one month older than HD) tell me he'll be into the textures soon enough. Like many other things, the switch will just flip one day. Lucky for me, the frozen pizzas we have make it easy to pick the little pieces of veggies right off the top. In our family, that's what we call a win-win.
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