I have decided I wanted to try making my LOs baby food. We will be staring baby food in a week or so and I wanted to get a head start. My mother in law said she would like to buy us a baby bullet or food processor or whatever we wanted. What did y'all find the most useful?
I'm not too familiar with the baby bullet but in addition to a blending apparatus you'll also need a steamer if you don't already have one. I think maybe there are baby food makers that do both?
I just use my regular food processor. My regular blender would probably work too. I like not having a specific baby food maker, because I can use my food processor for so many other things too. Some foods are soft enough that I just smash them with a fork.
Cheap steamer basket for steaming, and I bake some things.
I just started making some baby food this afternoon. I also have a baby bullet. I opened the box and decided I'm going to return it. I have a hand held blender that works wonderful and you can whiz the food up in the pot you steamed in- less mess. I personally think the baby bullet is a waste of money.
I use our food processor and ice cube trays. Works great. Pinterest has a lot of good instructions on making baby food. We steam and bake most veg and fruit and them purée it. Nothing too fancy.
We used the baby Beaba with DS1 and really liked it. After a few months though, it started to leak a bit. I eventually found black spots in the hot water reservoir used to steam and threw it out. I was cleaning it per the recommendations, but, from what reviews I've read, this seems to be a common problem with any baby food maker that steams that way. Not sure what we will do this time!
I'm making all my baby good but the cereal, she started cereal last night loved it... If you make baby food in advance, how long can you freeze it for?
I really enjoyed the book "Blender Baby Food" for DD, and plan to use it again. PP are right...ice cube trays, quart bags, sharpie, regular blender, freezer.
I'm thinking about trying baby led weening. Something worth looking into. There's a ton of info online.
DH and I plan on doing this. It seems so much easier, less expensive, and a really great way to cultivate healthy eating habits. Of course I'm not at all saying BLW is the only way to do this, but the people I know who used this approach had huge success with it.
Re: Making baby food
Cheap steamer basket for steaming, and I bake some things.
Regular ice cube trays, quart freezer bags.
https://wholesomebabyfood.momtastic.com/freezepage.htm