Homemade Babyfood

[jamauk]

Amber, I know you've mentioned this before and I was wondering if anyone else made their own babyfood? I didn't with Ben, but think I might with this next one.

Do you use a babyfood grinder or do you just use your blender/food processor? How exactly do you make it and any other pertinent information you might think is helpful!

Thanks!

[TheWife]

I bought mine for about a month last time and saved all the jars and juice bottles so I had something to put my own in. Then I just used a blender and made massive batches at once and then froze them. We have a lot of babies in the neighborhood so 3 of us got together and each made like 3 or 4 things and then swaped our batches with each other. The only thing I remember that was important is obviously meat safety, and then I read something about store bought carrots having way too many nitrates for babies?? It was confusing and I didn't know if it was true or not, but I skipped the carrots any way just to be safe, especially since they turn your kid orange lol. As he got older, I stopped using the blender and just used soft foods in chunks, like pasta in sauce and stuff. Some parents just get one of those little food grinders and take whatever they have for dinner and grin it fresh, which probably works just fine too, as long as your baby eats the same time you do. That's all I remember.

[MQAAord]

I made baby food not because I think store bought jar-d food is 'bad', but because I had the time & ambition to do it. Some people have a thing against store bought, but I fed Alex a lot of that when we were traveling or I'd run out of the homemade.

All I did was steam veggies in my Tupperware microwave steamer til they were nice and mushy. Then I put them in my standard blender, using the water that I'd steamed with, I ground them up to whatever consistancy was appropriate for his stage. Nice n' runny early, then chunkier & chunkier. Now I just steam veggies & cube them. He's into finger foods now so I don't need to puree anymore.

The meats I just cooked bland. Like in the microwave or whatever with no spices or anything. Then I blended with water in the blender. Looks & smells really nasty, I hated doing meats. But it works.

I did the ice cube tray freezing method. I'd take the veggie/meat puree and pour it into ice cube trays. Freeze, remove and store in zippy bags with the date written on them.

Doing this I could make my own 'chicken dinners'. I use a cube of chicken, cube of carrot, and a cube of peas. Alex loved it.

Num Num!