Comments on: Trying baby food

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:14:56 +0000

Yes! We did for all 4 kids.
Mostly it was just mushing up whatever we were eating.
I preferred to start my babies on foods like avocados, bananas, and other veggies.
Grains can be rough to digest for babies, so don’t lean to heavily on them.
Adorable photos.
Some babies are ready much sooner for baby food, and some like to wait, so don’t listen to those silly rules. ;)
Good luck with moving!

By: Vanderbilt Wife

Vanderbilt Wife — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:17:09 +0000

I make most of my own food, although I will buy some prepackaged if we’re traveling (or something I don’t care to make, like prunes). If I am buying prepackaged, I check to make sure the ingredients are JUST the food and water and maybe absorbic or citric acid.

I’ve enjoyed making her food and it’s so simple and inexpensive. I know she’s eating real, pure foods and that makes me happy.

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:08:57 +0000

My baby will be 7 in a two weeks, but we used exclusively homemade babyfood not out of convenience but out of her pickiness, she would not eat store bought (I was given a LOT and ended up donating it after trying three different kinds)

We skipped rice due to Pediatrician recomendations (she went straight to Oats because of constipation issues) and I powdered oats and added formula (since we were unable to breastfeed) and she started off eating real foods early as we had many formula allergies, now she eats ANYTHING we put before her except scalloped potatoes…I think the homemade versions helped tremendously as they are already used to the flavors of your cooking, We followed the recommendations out of Super Baby food by Ruth Yaron

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:01:37 +0000

Hi. I’ve never made baby food, no children yet, but I have a tip for making applesauce. Try using a pressure cooker instead of your crockpot. Cut up the apples leaving the skin on and only cutting around the middle of the core (and any worm holes, but this probably wouldn’t be an issue with store bought apples). Then pressure cook them with a little bit of water. After they are cooked, run them through what I believe is called a potato ricer. A metal container with holes in the bottom and a tilted blade that mashes the food against the bottom. My mom made huge batches of applesauce when I was a kid using these, and it was great. And the juice from the bottom of the pressure cooker was just heavenly as well.

This makes awesome applesauce with very little waste. Just the cores from the apples and the cooked down peel left from mashing the apples, after it has all the good stuff cooked out of it.

Just be warned, the applesauce made from this is so good that you may never want to eat the storebought jarred stuff again.

By: Bethany

Bethany — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:21:30 +0000

My mom would puree whatever she and my dad were eating, like Frugal Babe does. She says my brother and I both loved it!

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:16:57 +0000

Have you ever come across an Annabel Karmel book? She has great baby food recipes.
http://www.annabelkarmel.com/communityintro/club/annabel_karmel_biography

By: Frugal Babe

Frugal Babe — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:39:17 +0000

Absolutely! In fact, we just feed him whatever we’re eating. I had a baby food grinder that we used for the first few months of solids, grinding whatever we were eating into mush for him. Now we just cut stuff up in little pieces and put it on his tray. We wanted to get him in the habit of eating the same meals as us, right from the start. So far, so good!

By: Color Printing

Color Printing — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:33:42 +0000

Those photos are priceless. Your baby is sooo cute. :)
You’re right about making your own baby food. We’d never know what goes inside those jars in the market. Making it at home is possibly safer, at least you know the ingredients are organic.

By: Mrs. Money

Mrs. Money — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:47:08 +0000

He is so big now!! He is too cute.

I plan on making baby food too when the time comes. :)

By: Sally Ann

Sally Ann — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:04:39 +0000

We’re planning to make our own baby food once our baby’s here and can’t wait to do so! We have a blender with a “puree” setting and lots of storage containers. I’m hoping to just blend up whatever we’re having for our meals dinner (a portion of it) for our daughter. We’ll see how it goes!