Baby Food

When Henry was born one of the things I wanted to do as a STAY AT HOME MOM, was to make all his baby food. I mean, I was at home all day, it was the least I could do. Plus, you have read the benefits, right? It is full of vitamins and cheaper, plus there are no preservatives and I am keeping the plastic out of landfills. You get it.

Well, when it was all said and done, there were about 5 things that I made regularly for Henry. Squash, bananas, pumpkin and applesauce. Wait, that is 4 things, and he HATED the bananas. So pretty much, I gave up. And you know what? Henry is a picky eater. He doesn't like many veggies, and the fruits he does eat are random- one day he likes them, the next he doesn't. Maybe this isn't about the fact that I fed him jarred baby food. Maybe it was the fact that when he didn't like something we gave in and let him have something else. Who knows.

With Liz we (ok, I) really wanted to try and make as much as we could. We waited until she was 6 months old to start any kind of solid- we figured she wasn't ready at 4 months and didn't want to push it. We started with some organic jarred foods- I wanted to see what she liked (and really, what liked her). Once we had a better idea we got started.

We use a Beaba- it makes it so easy to steam then puree any food. That said, I don't think it makes the food as smooth as Lizzie likes. And it is only good at making small batches. So we switched it up to the large steamer and food processer. We now have a freezer full of food that lizzie loves.

A quick sample of what we have:

- mango/banana
- mango/sweet potato
- sweet potato/ banana
- brocolli/pear
- chicken/cauliflower
- peas/carrots
- peas/apples
- apples/chicken

Here's hoping we can keep this up.....