Making baby food?

futuremrs.hunt

If you make your babies food or made your babies food in the past, Tell me what foods you make how you make them. Any informative websites you use or have used? Any other tips or advice? Thanks!!

myheromyworld89

I recommend buying a baby bullet. It does an excellent job and has a great baby cook book that comes with it. We love it. We've made sweet potatoes and pears so far. Just have to peel and steam them before you process them. 

MuseumMaven

Wholesomebabyfood.com is a great resource. Tons of recipes and information on what foods can be introduced at what ages.

I just used my blender, I never had one of the special machines.

GoMaltby18

MuseumMaven:

Wholesomebabyfood.com is a great resource. Tons of recipes and information on what foods can be introduced at what ages. I just used my blender, I never had one of the special machines.

This.  I just used a steamer basket and a regular blender plus some ice cube trays.  The basic process for everything is peel/seed/chop (if needed) steam, blend, freeze.  Put them in a bag and label it then just thaw as needed.  It's easy to over think, but really it doesn't take much to make purees. 

AmyJoy728

I use a ninja which is like a bullet. I made squash, carrots, sweet potato. Boil all and reserve some of the water (except for carrots!!) and use the water to thin to the consistency you want. in the beginning I froze them in ice cube trays and thawed as I needed. I'd mix any of the 3 together for variety once thawed. As they started eating more, I just reused the Gerber baby food plastic containers. I also buy unsweetened apple sauce and pumpkin and they are ready to eat. I mash carrots as I go as they don't freeze so well.

erinruns

I loved the Annabel Karmel book - 100 Best Baby Purees.  It had lots of fun combinations in it and while it shouldn't be difficult to think of combos, I was so exhausted then it was nice to just read the book.

I loved my immersion blender for blending.  I felt like it did a better job with less liquid than a blender, and now I use it for soups, etc. 

huntertwin

I don't use any special tools or books, I just do what seems logical. My girls looove homemade applesauce (I add it to oatmeal or cottage cheese), mashed, steamed carrots, peas, rutabagas (they eat them separately or mixed together for variety). I add spices, like cinnamon, nutmeg, chili, curry, etc. so it won't be bland and tasteless. I sometimes add wholewheat tiny pasta for textural variety. Fruits I generally serve fresh, apart from raisins and dates and such, which I boil and pur?e and add to oatmeal to eliminate the choking hazard. 

mirnb

I second the baby bullet...got it as a gift and we love it! The little containers it comes with are great too! I also like weelicious.com as a resource for recipes along with sites others have mentioned! Making your own baby food can be so rewarding and fun....I love watching my boys enjoy all the food I have prepared for them! Their favs early on were sweet potatoes, squash, applesauce ......I like to throw a couple chicken breasts in the crock pot with sweet potatoes and some apples...cook on low all day and then blend with some added liquid! Mom and Dad can enjoy this too if you make extra!

Enjoy! 

groovygrl

I had a baby beaba and loved it even though it is not necessary, it just was easy for me. I especially love their freezer trays which have sections the sis of a jar of baby food and are silicone so easy to pop out. I actually used them for a very long time once the kids were on more chunky and then real food to freeze small portions of things like Mac n cheese, meat sauce, cheese sauce, pasta stars, etc. and I even us them now when I have a sauce or some random thing I want to freeze in small portions but bigger than ice cubes. I had a baby food cookbook but used wholesome babyfood.com the most in the beginning and then when we moved on to more complex things and easy finger foods I loved weelicious.

good luck!