KiwiMama

Ok - I know this should be easy to do, but I'm not quite sure how to go about making food for N. I never did it with M and always wished I did. How do you store the food you make? How long does it keep? Do you have any sites or books you'd recommend to help guide me? TIA

KBtotheBB

Erika sent me to Make Homemade Baby Food Recipes, Homemade Baby Foo. The recipes are well-organized and easy. Are you going to make purees?

Kat sent me the book she posted about a couple days ago - the Healthy Baby Meal Planner. I like this book, because the recipes are broken down by age. However, you have to use some mommy smarts, because some foods, the author introduces before the AAP recommends. (Foods like citrus and peanuts.)

KiwiMama

Thanks!

feltc

It's way easier than I thought it would be Jill. I would steam veggies, puree, then pop them in ice cube trays and cover the trays to freeze so I knew I had them in one ounce cubes. Then I could pop out however many I'd need. I never made enough for more than 2 weeks at a time, if I remember right.

KBtotheBB

When did you stop pureeing things?

KATin NJ

It was really easy. Honestly, after a few months, I was pureeing our dinner and feeding him that. No need to make it difficult at all, and freezing it was a snap. We had quite an array in the freezer of fruits, veggies, grains....

MY kids became total food snobs, and Will refused to eat the jarred food on vacation. IT was a nightmare, but quite a testament to him tastebuds.

mhurst

I used the Super Baby Food book. Super Baby Food

I really liked it. I would make a few different things a week and and mix and match for meals. It was super easy and I enjoyed doing it. My son had baby food one time on a vacation and Meredith never did.

I thought it was really really easy to make baby food. Have fun with it.

widdlelou

Its really easy! There are some things that I do buy b/c theya re just too much work. Apricots, prunes and peas. I hate getting the hard covers with the shells of the peas out and the apricots and prunes I cannot find without the sulfer whatever for the preservated and its just easier and Allison loves and needs her prunes.

I just use whatever we have. I even tried figs (and she did eat them btw). I do the same as the others I ptu them in icecube trays and then once htye are hard pop them out and put them in ziplocks. I"m about to try some veggie medolies and etc too. I cannot wait. And I use both the blender and the hand mill to do it. Its really quite easy and the food actually looks tasty and not yucky!

feltc

I stop pureeing as much probably around 10 months, and all together around a year, but my kids get their teeth late, so we go for mush for a long time around here.