My aunt, who is a pediatric nurse at UCSF, just sent me a book that gets you started and has recipes as well as a blender for that purpose. (Honestly, playing a game at my baby shower, where DH and I had to taste a bunch of different flavored processed baby foods, I decided at that moment to make DS's food at home when the time comes. The flavors - if that's what you want to call them led me to do research on processed baby food.....which led to us deciding to "do our own thing.")
You will also need a good blender, a way to freeze the food (ice trays seem to be a pretty popular choice) and the obvious baby eating utensils. I am very excited about starting this and am actually having to hold myself back until she is a little bit older! GL!
We use a small chopper or our food processor. Right now we just puree stuff with BM and add cinnamon to certain fruits but keep most stuff as is. Just steam, puree, and freeze. We have freezer trays with 1 ounce cube and then we pop them and stick them in baggies in the freezer and just pop a cube out for each meal. So far we've done apple, pear, banana, carrots, sweet potato, avocado, asparagus, and peas.
I'm butting in from 3rd Tri, but Williams SOnoma sells a baby food processor that steams and purees the food for it. They have a video on their website. It is a little pricey but looks really easy. You can even get the freezer containers to store extra. GL!
While the Williams Sonoma baby food maker is nice and easy, you can also easily make food without it as long as you have a steamer and blender or chopper or food processor. It's basically the same thing.
Re: Home-made baby food
Im reading book: Super Baby Food by Ruth Yaron
So far it has A TON of information and is a great book
Here's a helpful link too
https://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/
I plan to make her food as well once we start solids in a few weeks. I think these two books are great:
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743289579/ref=ord_cart_shr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/075660365X/ref=ord_cart_shr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance
You will also need a good blender, a way to freeze the food (ice trays seem to be a pretty popular choice) and the obvious baby eating utensils. I am very excited about starting this and am actually having to hold myself back until she is a little bit older! GL!
m/c at 13 weeks - March 23, 2011
I'm butting in from 3rd Tri, but Williams SOnoma sells a baby food processor that steams and purees the food for it. They have a video on their website. It is a little pricey but looks really easy. You can even get the freezer containers to store extra. GL!
https://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/e203/index.cfm?pkey=xsrd0m1%7C16%7C%7C%7C0%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7Cbaby&cm%5Fsrc=SCH