baby bullet = fantastic!

So first let me start out by saying that I sat down to write a blog post and nearly finished a whole post and decided I didn't really like it so I deleted the whole thing and started over. I just wasn't grooving with the other post and then I realized that I haven't had a chance to write about something that has changed my life.

The baby bullet.

You may be familiar with the magic bullet -- it makes smoothies, guacamole and most famously, fresh salsa. If you have no idea what I am talking about then navigate your way to youtube and look up the infomercial for the magic bullet. I'm sorry if you immediately want one, but that's perfectly normal.

I think it was the New Life auction of 2008 or 2009 that I got my magic bullet. As the auction approached I told Melissa that I would consider getting something if we walked in and there was a really awesome item. And sure enough, we walked into the gym and there was the magic bullet. I was pretty psyched. I can't remember how much I paid for it -- I'm sure it was about $10 more than if I would have gotten it at a store (although I'm not sure they were sold at stores yet) but it was worth every penny! The pictures used to capture that time are priceless. We made lots of good things in the magic bullet -- whipped cream, iced coffee, sorbet, smoothies. Then we tried to salsa. It did not turn out the way the infomercial let me to believe. Shortly after our salsa smoothie (yes, it was the consistency of a smoothie, nobody wants that) the magic bullet started to gather dust. We would still break it out once in awhile but it didn't get used nearly as much as it used to.

But now there is a new household appliance that it changing my life -- the baby bullet. It looks a lot like the magic bullet but it has little cute smiley faces on all of the cups and everything and comes with the cutest little spatula you have ever seen. And as the name might just imply, it's for baby food. I am LOVING making Vera food. Yes, it takes some time but I honestly look forward to it and I have so much fun with it. So far I have made her pears, bananas, avocados and sweet potatoes. She loves it all and I love seeing her try all of these new foods. I'm hoping that by exposing her to a lot of different foods now that she will like all of them as she gets older too, we'll see how that goes ;)

I'm wondering if I should alert the makers of magic bullet and the baby bullet to this blog post, I am after all heavily endorsing their products -- with the exception of that salsa smoothie.