Adventures Inward Making Babe Food

Now that Haley is erstwhile plenty to start eating "real" foods, I idea I would endeavour my manus at making but about of my ain for her. Inspired past times this spider web log post, I ordered my groceries as well as got to work.

The ingredients:

Peas, apples, sugariness potatoes, pears, bananas, pumpkin (canned), broccoli as well as carrots. I ordered organic for everything except the bananas, since yous toss the pare anyway. The apples were Honey Crisp - the MN State Apple! What a lucky daughter to accept her initiatory of all apples hold upwards Honey Crisp. They are seriously the best!

The tools:

I accept a bullet-type blender from JC Penny of all places. It was solely $30 as well as it definitely industrial plant the best for this. The prissy affair is that it rinses off easily for the side past times side batch of food, but the downside is that it doesn't concur a ton either. I accept also heard that immersion blenders are slap-up for making babe food. Perhaps I volition accept to alternative i up. 

I also got a brace sets of H2O ice cube trays from Target. I pre-washed them since yous never know who powerfulness accept touched them earlier yous brought them home. Yuck...seriously, yuck.

I also picked upwards a pack of Ziploc Steam Fresh bags. They are super tardily to use, brand for less build clean upwards as well as accept directions for all sorts of fruits as well as veggies correct on the bag.

The process:

Ummm...steam as well as therefore blend. That is actually virtually it! I set the nutrient inwards the blender as well as permit 'er rip until I run across that it is VERY smooth. If your blender looks stuck - add together water. I noticed the broccoli as well as carrots needed Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 LOT to a greater extent than coaxing than anything else. 

After everything was steamed as well as blended, I set the nutrient into the H2O ice cube trays, froze as well as and therefore moved them into labeled freezer bags therefore I could produce to a greater extent than batches. 

The results:

I am inwards beloved alongside the procedure - therefore easy! I started out alongside but two sugariness potatoes, 1 handbag of peas, 1 tin sack of pumpkin as well as two apples as well as that filled upwards all SIX of my H2O ice cube trays.

I accept been making things inwards pocket-size batches hither or at that topographic point when I accept time. For instance, when I am looking my ain dinner I but produce this at the same fourth dimension as well as and therefore freeze as well as handbag what I made later on (like after bedtime)!

I beloved that I know what is IN at that topographic point - no preservatives  etc. I'm for sure non opposed to buying babe food, but this is therefore inexpensive as well as tardily that I volition in all probability but continue doing this every bit long every bit it is convenient for me. 

I can't hold off until Haley has tried plenty unmarried foods to start making but about fun combos. So far, she has done oatmeal as well as when she got sick of but that nosotros started mixing inwards peas (liked), sugariness potatoes (loved) as well as bananas (couldn't larn enough!).

Combos I'm thinking of inwards the hereafter (some are from the spider web log I mentioned at the commencement of this post):

• Pumpkin as well as banana
• Squash (or pumpkin) as well as apple
• Broccoli as well as apple
• Spinach, peas as well as pears
• Avocado (and fruit!)
• Mixed grains as well as sugariness potato

I am excited to run across what I tin sack come upwards up alongside as well as to run across what Haley likes (and doesn't)!