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Babies: 6 - 9 Months
colemangal85
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Making Baby Food Process
colemangal85
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I would love to make my baby food but let's face it - I'm lazy. I hate that I have to get stuff out to steam then something else to mush and then store - and then I have to clean all of it. Isn't there all in one machines that make making baby food easy?
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Re: Making Baby Food Process
I think the baby Beba does it all in one. It is pretty pricy though. I make mine like the previous poster.
https://www.amazon.com/Beaba-Babycook-Baby-Food-Maker/dp/B001LQCOIS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368636448&sr=8-1&keywords=baby+beba
It really is not that much work. I just froze pears, avacados, and green beans in about an hours time this morning. I cut up the pears and baked them for 20 minutes. While they were baking I cut up the avacados and put the slices to freeze. I was also steaming the green beans at this time. While the pears cooled I pureed the green beans. I had a paring knife, a round dish, saucepan, and my blender to wash.
I use the Wholesome Baby Food Guide book.
Ditto this. I spent like an hour one day making large quantities of squash, sweet potatoes, green beans, apples, and pears and they've lasted like a month. Buying a special machine seems like a waste because I doubt it's any easier and babies don't eat purees all that long anyway.
This.
We have a beaba that we borrowed from a friend, and it does everything. I do like it, but I wouldn't have paid full price for it. Especially not at 8 months. My LO is the same age as yours, and he is losing interest in purees. He wants to feed himself. So I doubt you will need to steam / mush / freeze for much longer. I've occasionally just made a little extra of whatever DH and I are having for dinner and blending it up until it is the right consistency for him. I think we will be doing that a lot more often in the near future - you don't need anything more than a blender.
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Your ticker says your LO is 8 months? I assume he/she won't be on pureed food for much longer?
DS is 6 months and been on solids for 2 months. He now eats what we eat for the most part. I did make a bunch of pureed foods for the first couple of weeks and froze them, but now I rarely have to "make" his food these days! I usually plan our dinners with something that's baby-friendly (eg, roasted sweet potato, boiled potato, steamed or roasted cauliflower & carrots etc) and just feed him whatever we are eating that night. I will save some in the fridge so in case the following night I don't have something suitable for DS, he can eat the leftovers. DS is also eating seafood and meats - cod, shrimp, scallops, burgers, pork dumplings, shredded chicken. As long as I cut them up in small pieces, he doesn't have problem eating them.
[I still have a ton of frozen homemade pureed foods in my freezer.] As long as you have some ways to steam or roast, and you have either a blender or food processor, I wouldn't pay $$$ to buy a special product to make baby food for such a short time.
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This. Last night, for instance, I popped 8 sweet potatoes into the oven to bake for an hour. Scoop out the flesh, blend and freeze in ice cube trays. We had some leftover steamed zucchini from what I made at dinner, so I pureed that and froze it. It's not hard at all, especially if you're already cooking veggies for the rest of your family.