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Baby Food
For those of you that make your own: Do you have a Baby Breeza or a Babycook? Do you like it? If not, what do you use? I don't have a food processor and my blender needs to retire, so I am open to suggestions. I do like the idea of steaming/blending with the same appliance, but curious to hear if it's worth it. Also, what to you make, how much at a time and what do you store it in? Any recipe suggestions? Thanks!
Re: Baby Food
Kitchenaid Food Processor. The baby food cookers just didn't make enough at one time for me to commit to one. I used my food processor, a steamer basket (ours is from Williams Sonoma, but you can get them anywhere), and ice cube trays. For fruits/veggies that I knew he would like, I would make 2-3 ice cube trays full (about 2ish lbs of apples for example), for the first time of a food, just one ice cube tray. After the food was frozen I would store it in ziploc freezer bags until needed.
I just use my kitchen food processor as well and freeze in ice cube trays and freeze in ziploc bags. I have baked my peaches, sweet poatoes, squash, etc. so far and then just put in the food processor- very easy. I use the wholesomebabyfood website that was recommended on here for instructions
Ditto. If the specialty products were bigger they could be a good investment but they are just so small. Like indomestic, I made a TON of the foods I knew he liked. Even after he was on more table food he still liked applesauce and fruit purees. I also made smoothies for myself so any extra I had never went to waste.
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I have a Magic Bullet. I love it. It is smaller, but if I don't have time to freeze the stuff right away it comes with lid for each container that you can just stick in the fridge.
I use ice cube trays to freeze and once it's frozen I put it in ziplock bags. To make things easier for myself in the morning I have been individually bagging one days portion of food. I mix up what I put in each baggie and label what it is. I just have our daycare keep it in the freezer so it doesn't all melt into one.
I buy anything I can that is already frozen - most veggies and fruits you can get this way. I steam them and them put them in the bullet. I have even done macaroni and cheese this way too. Sweet potatoes and squash I buy fresh. I just cut them in half, leave the skin on and bake them. When they are done the skin peels of real easy. Bananas I cut into cubes and freeze. I don't put these in the bullet because it gets too runny, I use this instead. Some of the stuff you will have to add water/formula/BM to make it thinner.
I think it is totally worth it IMO. First because you know exactly what your baby is eating. Second because it is SOO much cheaper. You can buy a bag of peas for $0.99 that will make two trays of food ( 1 weeks worth) compared to two containers for $0.99. It really doesn't that much time, I'm often doing other stuff while I am making all the food.
This website is really helpful too. http://wholesomebabyfood.momtastic.com/
My mom bought us a new food processor knowing we were going to be making baby food and our blender sucks. She bought us the hamilton beach one from Target I think it runs on sale for 29 or 39. LOVE IT! Cord stores inside of it as does the lid and 2 attachments. So far I have used it for salsa, chucky or thinned, shredded cheese....Lyra's beginner foods which were thinned down. Just yesterday I used it for zuchinni and made it a little thicker for her as we are heading into the next stage. And just so you know my mom does a TON of research before buying these type of items and she has one just like it.
As for recipes I bought Tyler Florence's new cook book for baby food and am loving it. It doesn't have a ton of recipes but I like his combo ideas and meal ideas for when they actually start eating table foods. The meals look yummy for the whole family. Lyra will eat anything. I think we've tried almost every veggie the store has to offer. Including things that dh and I don't even eat on a regular basis. Other than that I just use that baby food website everyone posts about.