Before the baby, I always imagined my frugal self making baby food rather than buying the jars. Then I started buying the jars. Then I ended up eating some of the contents myself when they were rejected by the baby (“that’s 69 cents worth of food right there!”).
Thanks to this website, I’ve gained the confidence to give homemade baby food a try. I started out easy–bananas and avocados. For lazy people like me, these are a dream–they’re healthy for the baby and no cooking is necessary. Just mashing. Perfect.
My latest adventure was making sweet potatoes. I bought three sweet potatoes for a dollar and some change, baked them in tinfoil, smashed them up easily with a fork, then smashed them into an ice cube tray. The next day, I had a stash of 16 nice cubes of frozen sweet potatoes. I’m happy.
These things are sized to thaw quickly and reduce wasted food. Sort of reminds me of those Jetsons food pills. Plus, that Cool Baby of mine really likes them!
Cool Dad turned his nose up at the thawed salisbury steak puree cubes, but I’m working on him…
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My wife has done that with all three of our boys. It’s so much cheaper not to mention it’s guaranteed to be just what you put in it. No salts or other weird things. We still do jars too though at times.
Try chicken on CD, I’d put my money on chicken!
“salisbury steak puree cubes”
Uuhhhh, interesting! My friends baby, 7 months old, just had a terrible allergic reaction to sweet potatoes. Freaked everyone out. Who knew!
I used to buy extra Hawaiian Delight Desert Gerber baby food…for me! I love that stuff! But they were only about 38 cents when my kids were babies.
Then someone gave me a food grinder. Loved that thing. Everything I had – I would put some int he grinder and share with them. Perfect!
brody – from what we can tell, Kristin seems cool like that.
brad – sorry. the pureed chicken feet didn’t go over well with me.
tam – i can’t wait until i can start buying some treats from the store, saying they’re for the baby. great idea!
by the way, I love the colors of the picture, CM. orange and blue are always a good choice.
GREAT website link! Thank you! My plan was to go to the store tomorrow and buy some fruits and vegetables to try my hand at homemade baby food. That link will help a bunch!
Nice!
We’ve been on the same home-made baby food adventure.
I found that if you use what you make within 4 or 5 days, you really don’t need to freeze anything!
Have you tried a butternut squash? Josiah loves him some squash…