Homemade baby food?

[Calypso]

Anyone doing homemade baby food? If so, what are your best/favorite recipes and what are your worst?

[zennifer]

DH and I make some of our own baby food. We got the book Super Baby food and it is great. It tells you all about how to prepare and store food. It's really not that bad. We tend to only make spinach and sweet potatos and buy the rest. The one thing that seda really doesn't like is tofu. She love beans of all kinds :eating: soy, navy, chickpeas etc. One thing that is hit or miss with her is tahini (sesame paste) mixed with some veggie (usualy sweet potato) and spread on bread.
-Jenn

[HeatherMarie]

I plan on making my own baby food also. I just got Super Baby Food and began looking through it last night. I have quite a bit of jar baby food from my shower that I want to use first and then I'll start making it. Hopefully it will work out since I can't cook!

[Calypso]

I make most of my baby food. It's so easy! I swear! Once you start Heather, you'll never go back. :lol:

I don't even freeze mine. I'll steam whatever veggie I'm going to serve then puree it in the food processor w/filtered water. I have empty baby food jars from some that I keep on hand just in case. I fill up a few jars and stick them in the fridge and, voila, I have baby food! I do the same with fruits except for bananas. All you have to do with those is mash them up with a fork.

So far, I've pureed broccoli, brussell sprouts, sweet potatos, squash, and mangos. (I do one new food about every week per my pediatrician's instructions). I've also done a couple of blended foods as well: broccoli and rice cereal, and mango blended with banana. My twins loved them!

I've got a baby food book too, but it's not Super Baby Food. I forget what the title is.

[kristi]

Has anyone ever done green beans? I want to sneak a green in there and am wondering if there is a trick to it. I have done squash and sweet potato (each baked and food processor-ed) and mashed banana (which, surprisingly, he is not liking so much) and am wondering if there is a trick to green beans. Just steam and process?

[Calypso]

Hey Kristi. :)

You can either steam them or boil them. Just be sure that they are of a very soft consistency, otherwise, you'll have a hard time pureeing them. And, the texture won't be as appealing.

Let me know how it goes.

[kristi]

I've also been using Super Baby Food (as a rough guide... it's been very helpful so far!) We've done sweet potato, squash, green beans, peas, apples, pears, bananas, zucchini. I just started jarred peaches, they just aren't really ripe yet, it's the only thing I've done jarred so far. I figured out why he wasn't liking bananas... just too goopy and lumpy, no matter how much mushing. Then the nurse at our school said the trick is to freeze the banana. When it thaws, it is totally mushed and pureed just from being frozen and thawed. He loves it now! I made the pears (just pureed and frozen) and zucchini (nuked and pureed and frozen) but haven't given them to him yet, waiting the recommended 4 days between new foods... we'll see how he likes it!

Other people with the Super Baby Food book... have you tried the Super Porridge with the brown rice yet? I bought the rice but haven't done anything with it yet. Just never seem to have time these days!

peace-
Kristi