Today we fed Leanne her first vegetable - carrots. She loved them and just couldn’t get enough.
I’d been doing some research on homemade babyfood and decided to take a crack at making Leanne’s first foods. It is actually really, really easy. We started today with carrots since they were the only “yellow” veggie we had on hand. (The peditrician said to start with yellow veggies, move on to greens and then do fruits). It was pretty simple. I just steamed the veggies, and then pureed them in the blender with some water until they got to the desired consistency. I just did two carrots today to see how the process went, but I think I am going to start making larger quanties and freezing them.
So now my plan is to feed Leanne a breakfast of rice cereal and carrots for dinner until we start to introduce more foods.
If you want to save on clean up time with the blender, you can use an immersible (sp?) blender. Whole lot easier to clean that then being bothered taking the blender apart. I think it purees a lot faster and is much quieter if you’re making the carrots when she’s napping!
January 20, 2008
I bought a little food chopper at Walmart-maybe holds 2 cups worth of food for our childen. I used this to chop up what we were having for dinner for the baby instead of buying “some” baby food. Mostly used it for the veggies, but also for some of the meats. It was small enough that you can just throw it in the dishwasher after each use.
January 30, 2008
Hi! I went to elementary school with Jay, and was just browsing the site. Your daughter is beautiful, Congrats!
I have five year old triplets and I made all of their baby food, honestly it was the best thing I ever did. Once we had introduced all foods into their diets I would just toss whatever we where having in the blender and since they had a variety of tastes and textures then, they will eat just about anything now (except peas, NOBODY will eat peas LOL)
A small tip I can pass on, when you make large batches of food and freeze it, use ice cube trays, this way you can pop out one or two cubes at a time. It’s also good for when you are on the go, you can pop one or two cubes into a plastic container and by the time you want to use them they are usually defrosted and ready to use, but you don’t have to worry about finding a fridge to store it in while you are out!
February 8, 2008
Meg,
If my memory is still working, something makes me think your mother made your baby food and frozen it in icecube trays which broke it down into servings. Then I did the same thing. I would make a variety in the trays. I use that food at home, but for the babysitter I used jar food cause I took the kids out of the home and I brought the jars back home so I knew exactly how much they were or were not eating. Lilly is now into raw carrots, but Nicholas only likes them cooked. He is like me.
Happy Valentines Day to you all!!!!!!!!
February 14, 2008