Probably could ask this in the cooking section but I figured here Moms would be in the know.

Banana – how do you store an opened banana?

Mango – how do you pick a ripe one, does it need to be cooked before being fed to baby and how do you store the left over for the next day or so?

Avocado – how do you tell it’s ripe?

plums – cook or mash up really ripe ones?

Also any experiences on feeding baby some of the less common foods like persimmons, desert pears, asparagus, spinach, etc… Other ideas for stage 1 fresh fruits and veggies to give my baby a wide range of stuff to try. Jarred food seems to have about 6 flavours and that’s it and I am not ready to move him to stews and mixed stuff yet.

TIA!