April 2011 Moms
s/o solids... making baby food
All this solid talk has me thinking about making baby food now. Anyone knowledgeable on this subject? I know she can't eat it yet, but I wanted to use the fresh produce from my parent's garden. I found this website https://wholesomebabyfood.momtastic.com/ but was hoping on some more input on the subject. TIA!
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Re: s/o solids... making baby food
That's a great website, I used it when I started to learn about BLW.
Are you going to do pureed or BLW?
That site is the one always recommended to me. I plan to use it, and I have a couple of baby cookbooks as well (they were gifts and they all pretty much say the same thing. Steam vegetable. Puree it.)
My mom bought me a Baby Bullet after me being all snotty about how it was a waste of money and a stick blender would do. And now I'm totally excited to use it.
Everyone recommends that website- it's fantastic! I think I've read everything on there, I'm so excited to make my own baby food.
I was thinking the same as you- to start making it now so I can use fresh produce even though she won't be eating it for a few months. You can, just read the section on freezing baby food and make sure you're not making things too far in advance so they don't go bad. Otherwise, I say go for it!
My plan was to start in August, since she'll be six months at the end of October. I can't wait.
I have made 3 batches of green beans and one batch of peas. I used the ziplock steam bags to steam and then threw them in the magic bullet with breast milk to puree. It seriously took me longer to clip the bean ends and shell the peas then to actually make the baby food.
I then poured the puree into ice cube trays covered with plastic wrap and then aluminum foil. After they were frozen and took the cubes out of the trays and put them in freezer bags and labeled. I read that the food is good for 6 months in the deep freezer.
I also blanched 14 bags of green beans. I cut them small so when she is able to eat those she will have them. I could also puree them if needed. Those will last 1 year in the deep freeze.
I plan on buying peaches from the peach truck when it comes around and doing the same! It is super easy!
Do the green beans come out okay? Did you just steam and puree those? My parents have an over abundance of green beans and can't make them all before they go to waste!
I didn't know about BLW until I started reading about it here today. I'm going to have to do more research.
I didn't know about BLW until I started reading about it here today. I'm going to have to do more research.
Same here!! Reading more into BLW today, thanks for sharing ladies.