Making your own baby food is all the rage these days. This website is super helpful. It tells you the best way to prepare different foods and at what ages babies can eat them. The secret to making the process easy is to just batch-cook one type of fruit or veggie. Once you have pureed it, you can freeze it in an ice-cube tray and have little individual servings for weeks to come!
I had to buy a new ice cube tray after I noticed that I was scraping little bits of blue plastic onto the little food cubes. Oops! I found these great trays at Sur La Table. Each cube is exactly 1/2 ounce.
The best part about these is that you can just scoop out a bunch of the puree and then smooth it into the cubes with a butter knife– much easier than filling each individual cube.
And viola! Once they are frozen, you can push them out really easily from the back and store them in a freezer bag. Then just heat and serve.
Sam loves sweet potatoes!
I love making my own baby food for Aiden! It really is not hard at all! I love the website above and also used information from Super Baby Food 2nd Edition by Ruth Yaron.
He looks so handsome in orange!
Gina, I love that book too! And it is great for us because we are vegetarians and so is she 🙂
So healthy! You avoid all the processed food additives.
That’s a look of “Thanks, Mom. for all you do for me!” I’ve loved the recent blogs and video! Thank you for this wonderful blog, Caitlin!