"They're mild-tasting, easy to make, great for babies and freeze well. Because you don't have to cook them, I just do one and get about 4-6 meals depending on the size," says user Najzomax. "[My] little one loves them!"
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Do purée
"Make sure you really purée well. I didn't and [my baby] refused to eat," says Najzomax. "Once I blended it some more, she loved it."
"I found the best foods to work with were cauliflower, avocado, sweet potato, pears, apples," user Tch81 says. "Peas and green beans are very hard to get smooth enough. I roasted carrots and those were also tough to get smooth."
"Use ice cube trays. Mine make approximately 1/2 ounce cubes, so its easy to heat up more or less depending on what I think she will eat," says Najzomax. "For example, she'll eat three cubes for breakfast but two cubes for dinner. Every time I try three at dinner, I end up throwing some away."
"Only make what you can use in one month," says Najzomax. "If you make too much you end up throwing it away."
User Angelfire02 agrees: "Don't make a ton of anything until you know there are no allergies."
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Do taste everything you make
"Taste everything to make sure it's okay," says user BethCT. "I like to taste post-pureeing, pre-freezing."
Plus, sometimes there are happy side-effects: "This weekend, I made pumpkin and squash. The pumpkin pureed so well and was so yummy that a few ice cubes of it went into risotto for us that night!"
I did make my own baby food and found it easier than having to always purchase the little containers at the grocery store. It was a more authentic taste and often what baby was fed was an item from our plates that just had not been spiced and had been pureed. I think it is so easy and economical that all moms should definitely consider it-no recipes needed or special devices.
Make sure you cook some foods before you puree it. Things like sweet potatoes are much easier topuree when they’re soft. I also added just a little bit if water before I put them in the food processor. Then freeze them in the ice cube tray, buit store them freezer bags to prevent freezer burn, and igives you more room to make more in the trays.
My daughter is 19 now,but when she was a baby if we were eating steak,it went in the blender and she had steak also,I cooked her food with a stock of some kind cut with water so it wasn’t so salty and blended away
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I did make my own baby food and found it easier than having to always purchase the little containers at the grocery store. It was a more authentic taste and often what baby was fed was an item from our plates that just had not been spiced and had been pureed. I think it is so easy and economical that all moms should definitely consider it-no recipes needed or special devices.
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Make sure you cook some foods before you puree it. Things like sweet potatoes are much easier topuree when they’re soft. I also added just a little bit if water before I put them in the food processor. Then freeze them in the ice cube tray, buit store them freezer bags to prevent freezer burn, and igives you more room to make more in the trays.
My daughter is 19 now,but when she was a baby if we were eating steak,it went in the blender and she had steak also,I cooked her food with a stock of some kind cut with water so it wasn’t so salty and blended away