make your own baby food|Do you make your own baby food or buy jar food?

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make your own baby food–: Do you make your own baby food or buy jar food?
My baby is 6 months and we have been playing around with stage 1 Gerber foods for about 3 weeks now. My original intentions were to make food for him, but we all know how life can get hectic.. anyway, I still want to make him food. Can I use a blender instead of a food processor? Do you use breast milk/formula or water to puree it with and why? Finally, why do you make your own or use jar food? Thank you!

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Answer by bluenaketat2
I buy jarred, honestly because we don’t eat healthy enough to always have a supply, of what she should be eating. I know she is getting the right foods when we buy jarred.

Answer by Deans
I do both. I mostly give him jarred food, but at home it is easy to mash a banana or avocado. If you thin it, just add water. Jarred food is just so convenient on the go, or when I just don’t want to think about it.

Answer by Soph’s Mum-Mum ♥ᴮᴬᴮᴬ.ᴵᴺ.ᵀᵁᴹ♥
I used to buy jars till i read on a news site about someone opening the jars and contaminating them. It happened in the US i think, Im in the UK – but it still scared me. Plus, my daughter would wretch on a lot of the jars, like she was going to vomit. I thought she was just a fussy eater, till I actually tasted the stuff – its vile. So I went shopping, got loads of fresh fruit, veg, meats etc and just made a meal like us – for example, a casserole – put a hand blender in hers and she wolfed it down. Other things we blended up were, cauliflower cheese, homemade soups, chicken bakes, fish pie, etc. You can blend up almost anything. Also we gave her mashed potato like we eat it, mashed turnip, etc.

From 6m you can use whole milk as a mixer, if its something that requires milk to be added. But if it doesnt there is no need to add milk. I would spend one night a week cooking for her, then freezing. It didnt take so long because the portions were small. Its easier, and cheaper than most think.

Good for you for trying it – jarred food sucks in the taste stakes, convenient, yes, tasty, no.

Answer by Dee
I make my own unless we are traveling. I use a blender and its works great. I usually use water because I can’t pump enough to blend it with food and formula tastes gross. I make it in large batches and freezi it in icecube trays. There are lots of reciepes online.

Answer by ♥Love♥
You don’t even need a blender, you can just break it up/mash with a fork. I used to just whatever I was eating take like the carrots and green beans from our dinner and mash up a little bit for the baby. I used baby food too, but those little jars got pricey.

Answer by dmg
I do both, though we’re mostly on table foods now. Basically, I’m only an adequate cook and I liked seeing how the baby foods are put together – texture, flavors, taste etc. Then I try to reproduce them.

And we always have some Earth’s Best around for my husband to feed the baby because otherwise they’d both be eating Top Ramen. Even microwaving frozen cubes of home made baby food overwhelms him. He has many talents, but none of them are kitchen-oriented.

I used a hand blender to puree stuff when we are at that stage and it worked pretty well.

Answer by mommy2B
I bought jarred fruits (mostly earths best and organic gerber) but I made the fruits that you couldn’t find jarred and I made all the veggies. My son and I both thought the jarred veggies were disgusting (look and taste). If you buy a bag of frozen peas, steam them and put them in the food processor (along with boiled water if needed for thinning and maybe mashing the puree through a strainer to get the harder skins out if your baby doesn’t like them), they taste like peas! Sweet and yummy. The greyish runny mush that comes out of the jar is more like expired canned peas with sawdust added. Same goes for sweet potato, squash and carrots. You also can’t buy things like zucchini, broccoli, parsnips and certain combos of those foods like sweet potato broccoli and carrot/ parsnip puree which were my sons favorites.

As for the fruit that I made, it was things like cantalope, honeydue, papaya, mango, and peaches (gerber didn’t have the organic and my son loved peaches). Also mashing up ripe avocado and banana (together) was another favorite of my son.

I tried using my blender and it really didn’t work as easily as my food processor but I probably would have used it if I didn’t have a food processor. I used boiled (sterile) water to thin things out just because I didn’t want to pump all day and my son took to solid food with gusto and was eating like 3-5 ice cubes at each meal right at the beginning.

By making some of my own fruits, I could introduce more tastes to my son and more flavor combinations once I introduced them seperately. By making my own veggies, I could actually get my son to eat veggies…he wouldn’t eat the jarred stuff. Plus it’s way less expensive and doesn’t have to be hard if you just by frozen bags of things like already cut up broccoli, and already diced squash. Make a big batch and freeze overnight in ice cube trays, pop the cubes out into a labeled ziploc freezer bag and then take out a few to thaw every time you are going to feed them. I would make like 2-3 things on a weekend and it’d last me a couple weeks along with jarred fruits, baby oatmeal, and bread/crackers/cheerios and eventually yogurt and meat. So it’s not like I was slaving in the kitchen every day.

Answer by Betty B
You can use those mini chopper/blender (I used a Moulinex), that are small and easy to clean so you can puree meat, like chicken, for example.
Even with an hectic life, you still have to cook for yourself so you just puree some for your baby. It’s doesn’t take a long time to cook vegetables (steam or microwave them).

You can use some baby food in jars, sometimes, but make sure you taste it first. I love green beans but the green beans in baby food jars just tasted awful! which is the main reason I avoided jars, as not to mess up my kids taste buds.
(I think I only used fruits in jars, the rest just did not taste right).

I never used formula (I breastfed my kids for a year then went directly to milk) but I would use some yogurt to soften any solid food (it goes great with some mashed banana).

Answer by Blue
I do both, a blender is fine, i ususally don’t mix it with any kind of liquid, but I when I do I use formula. I make food because I have more control over what my baby eats. She loves avocado, but I’ve never seen it in jarred baby food form. I can play around with textures and spices to see what she like etc…..I use jarred sometimes when I just dont have the time, she likes that stuff too!

Answer by Nate’s mom
I make my own food. I’m a SAHM and I find it more convenient and less expensive. I use a blender and water. I use breast milk only if I’m making cereal or something that would typically require milk. Every now and then I buy jar food because I have a coupon that would allow it to be free or because a certain fruit or vegetable is out of season. Otherwise I make my own.

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make your own baby food

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Question–: What is the easiest way to make your own baby food?
My husband and I are working parents and we’re beginning to discuss which foods to start our 5 month old. He is already on rice cereal. I would love to make my own baby food, but I don’t have a lot of time to spare. I’d like to know what the easiest methods are for making our own baby foods. Thanks for your help.

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Answer by Blonddude
just blend up all ur meals, easy!

Answer by Doodlestuff
Just get a Braun Hand Blender and you are in business.

Most of the world does not separate out different foods. Baby just gets what’s for dinner, pureed.

Answer by Jan
You can roast a bunch of veggies all together and then puree them individually or mix some up. Once the purees are ready, you can freeze them in ice cube trays. Once frozen place them in freezer bags. When you want to feed your baby, just pop one cube out of the freezer, and it is the perfect size for baby! Instead of roasting you could also steam, but I wouldn’t boil because it takes too many vitamins out of the veggies )

Answer by sknymnie
buy fresh fruits and vegetables from the store, cook them and then put then in a food processor, let them cool and feed to baby.

Answer by JennDi
Puree, steam or roast your veggies and meats then just puree then, you can alter the consistency has the baby gets older. For fruits just puree them and you can add in a vitamin packet or soy milk. Put together a list of what you need and then just spend an hour a week and do them all at once. You can freeze whatever you don’t need immediately.

Answer by Goldilocks
its quite easy. Just puree puree puree
here’s a handy website:
http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/pureestore.htm

Answer by jennylynn
I think after rice cereal, you begin veggies. At this age you can use a blender, because the foods need to be pureed and have no chunks in them until they are older (8-10 months old). Steam the veggies, blend and freeze, add water to thin, if needed. Same with fruits, like apples, bananas, pears, etc. When it’s time to introduce meals, blend whatever you eat and feed to baby or freeze for later use.

Answer by twinmomg
I boiled everything individually (no spices) and used a food processor (add the liquid left over from boiling to thin the consistancy). I used to set aside one day a month to boil everything for the month….

I froze each item in indiviual servings (an ice cube tray is a perfect portion size).

For example for dinner I would thaw one veggie, one starch, and one protien and with a puree fresh fruit they had a well ballanced meal….

Answer by oh_froggit
really doesn’t take long. i spent two hours one day making baby food, and had enough for 3 weeks! freeze it in ice cube trays (one cube equals a meal when you’re first starting) and once it’s frozen put it in ziploc bags. you generally boil, steam, or bake fruits and veggies, then puree in a blender. simple as that!!!

http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com for ideas, tips, recipes, storage, what ages to introduce what foods, and everything else you need to know about making baby food! enjoy!!!!!

Answer by Sarita’sMommy
I own a blender and “mash” everything in there. Her morning fruit puree (just peel the fruit, add a tiny bit of water to get the belnder going and that’s it). I also give my daughter soup, because my Dr recommended it when she was 5 months old, she has it for lunch. You take 1 protein (meat or chicken), one vegetable (one serving of spinachs, peas or carrots) and one carbohydrate (1 small potatoe or a serving of rice), put them together, let them boil for 30 mins, don’t add salt nor another condiment. Let it cool a bit, then blend it and there you have a well balance healthy meal.

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