Homemade Baby Food
I can’t believe that I have two kids, but I just tried making my own baby food this week. I even had everything I’d need for making baby food when Ava was a baby, but I was really overwhelmed by it for some reason. I don’t know why, because it’s so easy!
I have the Kidco Feeding System, but you could easily make your own food with just a food processor and ice cube trays.
I made green beans yesterday and apples today. For the green beans, I cooked 2 cups of fresh green beans, sent them through the electric food mill, added enough water to make it like Stage 1 food and put it in trays to freeze. Then today, I just took the cubes of food out of the trays and stored them in a ziploc bag in the freezer. For the apples, I used 2 apples, cooked them with 3 Tablespoons of water on the stove until they were mushy and then pureed and froze them. It’s so unbelievably easy and doesn’t even take very long.
I’m sure it’s going to save us lots of money, because Kelvin is like a bottomless pit. It always took Ava several days to finish a jar of baby food, but Kelvin eats at least 1, sometimes 2, every day. Tonight he actually ate 6 oz of food (2 oz of green beans, 2 oz of apples and 2 oz of cereal).
I’m going to try carrots tomorrow….now that I’ve started, I just don’t want to stop! By the end of the week, I should have enough different kinds of food made that I won’t have to use any jarred food anymore!
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Way to go! You will save tons of money doing this. My kids never liked any of the baby foods except the fruit anyway so I was always throwing away the store bought ones that they wouldn’t finish. They just preferred the real foods. It made the transition to finger foods so easy!
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Awesome, Lora! I am going to try that too. I didn’t realize it was that easy. Actually, I did try and made baby food when Aubrey was little. I have saved a lot of the baby jars from both my kids when they were babies so I can easily store it in there too, right?
It’s nice reading what you have been up and learning/getting ideas from you
You definitely are the super-momma 
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Great plan! It will be nice saving money not buying baby food. I’m sure I will overdose Joshua on bananas like I did Sophie because I just mush them up and give that to him when we’re out.
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Kelley – I did that a lot too! Bananas were the cheapest and easiest baby food for my babies.
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Happy Mother’s Day, Lora!
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