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Earth's Best Organic 1st Fruit Starter Kit, 2.5 Ounce Jars (Pack of 12)

Contains 4 Bananas, 4 Apples and 4 Pears

Earth's Best Organic Foods

Organic foods offer countless healthful benefits for you, your children and the world around us. With The Hain Celestial Group's family of organic brands and Earth's Best you can be sure you are giving your family the highest quality organic foods.

Earth's Best For Infants
From the day they are born, infants rapidly change and grow. And so do their food preferences. That's why Earth's Best offers a wide variety of formulas, cereals, jarred food blends and juices to ensure your baby gets the wholesome and pure nutrition they need.

Earth's Best Organic 1st Fruit Starter Kit, 2.5 Ounce Jars
Earth’s Best organic first fruit starter pack contains an assortment of three unadulterated fruits--bananas, apples, and pears--perfect for babies more than four months old. After your baby develops a tolerance for infant cereal, introduce this single ingredient pureed fruits. Earth's Best makes the first foods with only the freshest organic fruits and vegetables. The variety pack is a great way to add convenience to your life--easy to shop for and simple to store. It is also packaged in a sturdy storage tray that clearly indicates each flavor. This is sold in a pack of twelve 2.5-ounce jars, 3 jars each of the different fruits.

Why Organic?
Choosing organic is choosing to live a healthier life. Organic foods are produced without the use of potentially harmful chemicals and synthetic pesticides or growth hormones. This is even more important when we consider infants. For four to six months following birth, infants receive most of their nutrition from breast milk or infant formula. It is so important that these formulas contain the safest ingredients.

If ingested, potential toxic chemicals or heavy metals can lead to compromised immune system development. Likewise, young infants consume disproportionately high levels of fruits and vegetables when compared to adults. This increases their risk of exposure to potential contaminants found among non-organic products. Finally, Earth's Best products do not contain genetically engineered ingredients (GEIs), made by inserting genes from one plant into a strain of another to produce more crops or control pests.

Why organic? It is better for you, your child and the environment they will grow up in.

The Earth's Best Difference:

Organic ingredients grown without harmful pesticides
No Genetically Engineered Ingredients (GEIs)
Most items made only from whole grains
No added salt, modified starches or refined sugars
No artificial flavors, colors or preservatives
Kosher (excluding meat varieties)
Rigorous product testing

As your little one grows, you'll have to make a lot of choices. With Earth's Best choosing the right food is easy. They create high quality, organic products grown by the some of the best farmers, filled with the best ingredients and tested for the highest level of purity and freshness. Earth's Best organic products help protect the earth so future generations have healthy food to eat and a healthy world to grow up in. That makes a big difference for your little one.

About Earth’s Best
Earth’s Best is the first and only full line of organic baby food. Earth's Best organic provides "better for baby" products with the freshest, purest ingredients, so parents can nurture their baby's health with the utmost confidence. Earth’s Best is organic certified by Oregon Tilth, an agency accredited by the USDA. That means they procure ingredients that do not contain potentially harmful synthetic pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, or genetically engineered ingredients (GEIs). It also means that they can proudly display the USDA organic logo on their packaging.
No wonder, Earth’s Best has been trusted and preferred by parents, grandparents, and caregivers alike for the past 25 years.
Today Earth’s Best offers organic formulas, snacks, meals, and even earth-friendly baby body products for your little one. By expanding the trusted Earth's Best brand beyond baby foods they hope all children will grow up with the freshest and purest products possible in a clean and safe world.
Earth's Best Quality Promise

Earth's Best produces food with the highest degree of attention to quality and safety.

Each ingredient is tested for pesticides and potentially harmful residues. No product is released until Earth's Best quality assurance department approves laboratory results, ensuring they meet the strict standards for organic certification.
Earth's Best organic infant formula contains no toxic chemicals or heavy metals.

Earth's Best organic infant cereals provide an excellent source of iron to aid early physical and neurological development and restore the iron depletion that results after birth.
Earth's Best organic baby juice comes from fresh pressed, undiluted, single strength juice, not from concentrate.

Earth's Best organic produce does not expose infants to the higher level of contaminants found in conventional produce. Proportionately, babies consume up to four times the fruits and vegetables that adults consume.
Earth's Best organic jarred fruits provide an excellent source of vitamin C to aid the absorption of iron and help fight infections.

we're huge pasta/carb fans and this is one of my favorite dishes to cook up because it is so easy and simple to make. essentially it's an all in one dish without having to think of the sides. we try to keep it somewhat healthy with organic produce and whole wheat pasta but it is still definitely a sinful but "delightful" (mikaila's words) dish.

the sauce is really basic and you can add or change your proteins and vegetables to change the flavor profile.


3/4 stick of butter
1 quart of heavy whipping cream
3 tbs flour
2/3 cup of grated parmesan
3 cloves of garlic (finely chopped)
1/4 vidalia onion (i grate mine to "hide" them..but chopped will work fine)
12 oz cooked sweet peas *
1 1/2 pounds of turkey breast **
1 1/2 pounds of shrimp ***
12 oz fettucine pasta
a couple drizzles of olive oil
onion powder, seasoned salt, garlic powder
salt and pepper to taste


* i cheat most of the time and just get the steam fresh packs that you can just pop in the microwave...hey...less dishes and a whole lot fresher!
** we get the farm raised organic kind but any type of poultry will work really
*** we use the quick frozen kind...they thaw really easy and are a lot of fresher when you live no where near an ocean. :P

this can be done earlier in the day..
sprinkle onion powder, garlic powder, and seasoned salt onto both sides of the turkey and put in a zip loc bag to marinate. repeat same process with shrimp making sure to pat it dry and place in a seperate zip loc bag. leave in the fridge until you are ready to cook them.

cut up the stick of butter into two sections

heat up a pan and melt one section of butter into it.
add a drizzle of olive oil so the butter doesn't burn.
pan-fry the turkey making sure to get a nice brown on both sides. (ideally, you only want to flip it once so it stays moist and juicy inside)
remove from the pan and let it rest on a chopping board.
pan-fry the shrimp the same way.
when the turkey has cooled down and the juices have been reabsorbed, cut up the turkey into cubes/bite size pieces.
put turkey pieces and shrimp into a bowl with saran wrap over or into a closed container.

on a seperate burner, start boiling the water for the pasta. add salt and oil..this is the only time you'll really get to flavor the pasta so be generous with the salt. when the water comes to a rapid boil...add pasta.

(while preparing the sauce, remember to constantly stir or use a whisk so it doesn't clump up or burn)
use the same pan from the turkey and shrimp and melt more butter and oil.
stir fry the garlic and onions till they're nice and fragrant.
add flour to start making a roux making sure to get the flour nicely browned so you don't have a "doughy" taste.
add the heavy whipping cream and parmesan cheese.
add salt and pepper to taste.
stir, stir, stir until it comes to a boil and sauce begins to thicken.
add the turkey and shrimp
drain and add pasta
add peas
combine, stir, and enjoy!

:)

7.1.2008

So.... okay.... It's a dessert served in a litter pan...with a scoop.

I've made it a few times. Two birthdays and one April Fools Day Party... Surprisingly the kids look as horrified as the adults but eventually every takes a scoop.

In case you have an odd sense of humor here is the recipe -- including what I did that was a bit different.

KITTY LITTER CAKE
1 spice or German chocolate cake mix
1 white cake mix
1 large pkg vanilla instant pudding mix
1 pkg vanilla sandwich cookies
Green food coloring
12 small Tootsie Rolls
1 new (and definitely unused) kitty litter pan
1 new plastic kitty litter pan liner
1 new Pooper Scooper

Prepare cake mixes and bake according to directions (any size pans).

Prepare pudding mix and chill until ready to assemble.

Crumble white sandwich cookies in small batches in food processor, scraping often. Set aside all but about 1/4 cup.

To the 1/4 cup cookie crumbs, add a few drops green food coloring and mix using a fork or shake in a jar.

When cakes are cooled to room temperature, crumble into a large bowl. Toss with half the remaining white cookie crumbs and the chilled pudding. (Mix in just enough of the pudding to moisten it. You don't want it soggy. Combine gently).

Line new, clean kitty litter box.

Put mixture into litter box.

Put three unwrapped Tootsie rolls in a microwave safe dish and heat until soft and pliable.

Shape ends so they are no longer blunt, curving slightly. Repeat with 3 more Tootsie rolls and bury in mixture.

Sprinkle the other half of cookie crumbs over top.

Scatter the green cookie crumbs lightly over the top. (This is supposed to look like the chlorophyll in kitty litter.)

Heat 3 Tootsie Rolls in the microwave until almost melted.

Scrape them on top of the cake; sprinkle with cookie crumbs.

Spread remaining Tootsie Rolls over the top; take one and heat until pliable, hang it over the side of the kitty litter box, sprinkling it lightly with cookie crumbs.

Place the box on a newspaper and sprinkle a few of the cookie crumbs around.

Serve with a new pooper scooper.


In my experience with doing the recipe:

1. I used german chocolate cake mix and while it was YUMMY I found the color and look of the cake too dark. German chocolate cake mixes used to be a lighter color but no more... If I could have found spice cake mix (I couldn't) I might have used that, it would have had a much more 'sandy', litter-ish look. Another option might be a white cake mix and some food coloring -- the professional stuff.

2. Pre- made pudding is easiest and the less pudding the better. I made this cake at home and brought it someplace. Kept everything in baggies and assembled it in the litter box when I got there. It works best if assembled right before eating because the pudding will make it soggy if it sits too long.

3. You can't have too many tootsie rolls. Surprisingly. The recipe doesn't call for nearly enough!

Bon Appitite.