Making your own purees

Holly_1007 · April 2013

If you make your own purees, what have you made? with DS1 I did a combination of homemade purees and jarred purees, and introduced finger foods a little early. I have mastered simple purees: Butternut squash, carrots, sweet potatoes, apples, bananas, peaches, and pears. Has anyone tried anything else? Or given a go at making some combinations? I would love Colby to have a wide variety of foods that he eats early on, but some of the combinations of the baby food jars I don't think I would ever be able to make at home.

How are you all doing with making your own purees?

ShadowsRainFalls · April 2013

I have made squash, sweet potato, avocado, banana, pears, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, apples, peas, green beans, mango, ummm..im sure more but I cannot remember.

If they are super thick I add the water I steamed them with and then fre

Hyaline · April 2013

We've done smashed avocado and banana, and pureed peas, green beans, sweet potato, carrots, spinach...I think I'm missing some...

My "secret" for getting the veg that doesn't puree as nicely to smooth out is to throw a little avocado in there wit

angeleighhh · April 2013

ShadowsRainFalls:
I have made squash, sweet potato, avocado, banana, pears, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, apples, peas, g

Hyaline · April 2013

Yes, if you're being extra-cautious. My doc had no problem with strawberries, even though a lot of "avoid" lists include them. I gave them a couple times.

webletmom · April 2013

JAM828:
I just make them one by one and combine them when I'm about to feed him. I have a book that tells you what foods go we

BluepointToasted · April 2013

I've mashed avocado and banana with a fork, and made purees with apples, pears, beets (LO's favorite, even pureed in the beet greens), peas, green beans, carrots, sweet potato, butternut squash, spinach. I used organic pumpkin puree out of a ca

L8kissie · April 2013

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gingerfamily · April 2013

Green beans, broccoli, peas, avocado, bananas, spinach and pear, broccoli and mangos and pear, bananas and kiwi, zucchini and apples, butternut squash, sweet potatoes, blueberries, pumpkin, peaches, nectarines, apple and cranberry.

BPer · April 2013

BluepointToasted:
I've mashed avocado and banana with a fork, and made purees with apples, pears, beets (LO's favorite, even&n

icedcoffeeluv · April 2013

I have done peas, carrots, avocado, zucchini, green beans, mango, banana and butternut squash.

For those that freeze avocado do you just mash it and freeze like that? I find we never end up using all the avocado because it browns and turns gross

JennH28 · April 2013

icedcoffeeluv:
I have done peas, carrots, avocado, zucchini, green beans, mango, banana and butternut squash. For those that freeze

gingerfamily · April 2013

icedcoffeeluv:

For those that freeze avocado do you just mash it and freeze like that?

Yup.&nbs

icedcoffeeluv · April 2013

gingerfamily:
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cmumama · April 2013

I haven't combined anything yet, but I'm planning to soon. So far I've made: butternut squash, sweet potato, green beans, peas, avocado, pear, peaches, plums and mangos. He's also had finger foods: toast with a little jelly, banana muffin,

Flamingemu · April 2013

So I never posted, though I thought I did. The Fitnessista is a blogger who has a 'family' section. She has a bunch of different flavor combos that she has given her daughter and shopping lists for what she needed to make them. I can't access her blog fro

melody921 · April 2013

I've made the ones you mentioned, as well as green beans, peas, spinach. Bananas and avocado, I just mash up with a fork. With DS, pretty much anything we ate, I gave to him. Once he had eaten multiple foods separately, I started combining them.