Purees
Also called puree, purée, purées, pureed, puréed, pureeing, puree phase, fruit puree
Purees are foods blended, mashed or sieved into a smooth paste, often a baby's first spoonfuls of solid food. Parents also use the word for the spoon-fed way of starting solids, as the other route to BLW.
How it's said
They can hurl a bowl of puree in six directions at once, whilst a bowl of steamed carrot sticks can't stick to the walls.
Not gonna get into BLW vs Puree debate here because all weaning threads seem to end up with exactly the same arguments.
Also, when should you move from purees to finger food?
Who says it
Where it came from
Purée is a French word that English borrowed. In Old French of the 13th century it meant purified or refined. In English it names any food ground, pressed, blended or sieved to a creamy paste, from apple sauce to hummus.
Whole meals are often puréed for babies and for people who can't chew. Next to baby-led weaning, the word also names the traditional spoon-fed way of starting solids.