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making own baby food

SaraJaneKregelSaraJaneKregel
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anyone on here make their own baby food?  I got a beaba babycooker from family as a gift and plan on making some pureed food this week to freeze.  What foods did you make first?  Any fruits or veggies to stay away from making her right now?  I thought my friend said something about avoiding carrots because they have nitrates in them??
Annalise Born 7/2/10 Jacob Born 4/12/12
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  • Starfish113Starfish113 member
    if you make carrots just steam them and don't use the water to thin it when you puree... i use bottled instead (i guess the water would contain the nitrates). although i don't know how that particular cooker works and if you can separate. sweet potatoes and butternut squash are great ones to start with. check out wholesomebabyfoods.com!
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  • abb08abb08 member

    Carrots are fine, but don't use the water you steam them with to thin them.  Apparently, that is what makes the nitrates too high.  I don't have a cooker, but have been steaming and making ice cubes of food.  So far we have made sweet potatoes, butternut squash, and carrots.  Our pedi recommended starting with orange and yellow veggies. All have been a hit.  This week we'll try bananas and peas. Yum!  This seems to be the site most folks refer to and I have found it very helpful:

    https://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/


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  • amt627amt627 member
    I second wholesomebabyfood.com. I started with squash, which my DS hates. I have pureed avocadoes, which he doesn't mind and I baked sweet potatoes and then pureed them, which he LOVES. I haven't done any fruits because they will turn brown and I guess citrus isn't good for baby (which would be from the lemon juice I would add to keep it from turning brown). I would like to try peas and other veggies, but am not sure how the skin on those would puree? I am guessing I would have to buy pea pods and take them apart.
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  • indiana_museindiana_muse

    I have the same cooker and I love it! I have been making food for my baby since she was 6 months old. I started out with fresh peas during spring and am no onto making actual little baby recipes with Quinoa! 

    It is so simple to do and I feel really good about making fresh food for her. I make a few batches of food and keep some fresh for 3 days and freeze the rest. I bought a few cookbooks off Amazon, there are a lot of options. I really like this book

    https://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Baby-Wholesome-Homemade-Delicious/dp/1416599185/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1293499748&sr=1-3

    and this one

    https://www.amazon.com/Top-100-Baby-Purees-Healthy/dp/0743289579/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1293499748&sr=1-1 

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  • katpres06katpres06 member

    I second the website, wholesomebabyfoods.com. I get a lot of recipes from there.

    Also, like PP said about using the water from the carrots, just use other water when thinning it out.

    These are the fruits and veggies we've tried so far that he's liked - green beans, peas, carrots, squash, a veggie combo (peas, carrots, zucchini and potatoes), sweet potatoes, apples, pears, peaches.

    Really the only things that he didn't like were the avocados and the bananas (which made him really constipated).

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