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How do professional chef moms cook for their babies? Well...turns out, they’re a lot like us! In this episode two-time Food Network Chopped champion Chef Tatiana Rosana is joining me to share some real-life easy to implement BLW meal prep ideas.

Tatiana and her wife are doing baby-led weaning at home with their 8-month-old son Arlo. And since she’s in the thick of it, Tatiana is giving us some great ideas on how we can streamline BLW prep at home, employing some of the same techniques that work in her professional kitchen that babies can benefit from too.

We’re chatting about her appearances on Chopped and Beat Bobby Flay and the pressure to perform your craft at work vs. prepping food for your baby at home. And Tatiana is also breaking down some of the upcoming foods that Arlo is going to be trying as well as what’s she’s thinking to make as she plans ahead to prepare short ribs and lamb and black beans for baby Arlo and his BLW journey.

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SUMMARY of episode

In this episode, I’m joined by two-time Food Network Chopped Champ Chef Tatiana Rosana who is also a BLW mom and started solids recently with her son Arlo.

Tatiana is talking about:

• Easy meal prep ideas to streamline the workflow when you’re making new foods for your baby

• How she stays motivated to try new foods with Arlo even though she makes food for a living in her role as an Executive Chef at the Envoy Hotel in Boston!

• Why she and her wife struggled early on in Arlo’s BLW journey and how things have improved the more practice he has had with self-feeding

LINKS from episode

• Follow Tatiana on Instagram @chef.tatiana & her family account featuring son Arlo @hello.its.arlo

• Watch Tatiana on Beat Bobby Flay episode “Getting Nutty” 

• Watch Tatiana on her first episode of Chopped “Under the Cuban Sun”

TRANSCRIPT of episode

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