if you make your own baby food

anna7602

please reco. your food processor, blender, mill, whatever appliance you use to make baby food. Our blender has been on the fritz for a while and I accidentally broke a piece of our food processor yesterday that may or may not be easy to replace. I am considering buying this outrageously expensive williams-sonomoa babycook machine, but think I should at least look at other appliances that will have long-term uses.

johnsoar

I have a small and large Cusine Art brand.  It works great for us. At 8 months I am trying to give her chunkier foods so I have not been using it.  I also have a baby food grinder that I use. 

joecubed

no way do you need that machine.  we just use our magic bullet.  It makes good purees with water or breastmilk, and if we want chunkier foods I either skip the water/BM or use a potato masher.  so far we haven't had any trouble.  that said, I haven't tried to puree meats or anything, but I won't.  we're only going to do that stuff as table food.

Agrippa

I'm using the Magic Bullet.  My MIL picked it up for me at Target.

Mrs.Donkey

I love that Beaba thingy, but it's so expensive and I've been able to do the same thing with stuff we already have.  I steam the veggies in our rice cooker.  It came with a steamer basket.  I've also done a few of them in the microwave, or you could just get a cheap steamer basket and do it stove top.  I puree in our small food processor.  If you don't have one, you could get away with buying an inexpensive one.  It's not like purees are going to put a lot of strain on it and you won't be doing this forever.  Or you could use your blender.  We also have a manual food mill by Kidco from BRU that works great.

mattnlinz03

I make large batches of food and just user our Cuisinart blender and it works great.  Now at 9 months I am just hand mashing the foods so they are a little chunky for him.

Sarabell55

I did get one of the food mills from One Step Ahead and I really like it (it was only like $12).  But mainly I use my magic bullet.

bebeau2be

I agree with pp about the magic bullet.  Our squash was a little too chunky after going through our old food mill, so I borrowed my sis's magic bullet and ran some squash through it.  Depending on how long you blend it you can get foods almost down to store bought baby food consistency if you wanted.

I think I'm either going to buy hers off of her (she'd never used it, it was still in the box since last winter) or get one of my own, because I think I could make some really good fruit drinks in it to help me to drink less pop.

mrsain1105

I love my cuisinart food processor.  It is a bit pricey, but you will use it for much more than just making baby food and for much longer (they really last - both my mom amd my MIL still have the ones they were given as wedding gifts).

CFO

I used the Kidco Food Mill for the first time last night.  Its sorta cheap looking so it probably didn't cost much (it was a gift) but it does a good job.

Descanso*Bride

I use a pot with steamer insert and a Cuisinart mini-prep and it has been great.  I have used it for meat but now DS is eating meats as finger food. 

That thing from Williams Sonoma seems like a rip-off to me.

Luckystar2

I don't even use anything. I just mash up things. DD doesn't mind chunky and thick texture.

Honestly I wouldn't spend a lot on something (unless you can use it after baby food) because your DC won't be on baby food forever.  And at some point you can make the texture thicker and can just mash things up anyways.

mountaingirl2

I actually have the Beaba it LOVE it so I suppose I'm not much help.  We got it as a gift, which was fantastic as our blender/food processor is broken and we haven't replaced it.  DH actually makes all of DS's food. 

eowynmn

I either use my really cheap mini food processor (they are $30 each normally) or a magic bullet, and that's enough.