How To Make Baby Food

Retrieve my post the other day about how I taught my baby, Baby Sign Language, and how I pretty much said I wanted my babe to exist the smartest little thing anyone e'er knew, and how I wanted only the best for him? Well it was no unlike when it came to making homemade baby nutrient. But I had the same question that may have brought yous to my post today: "How to make infant food?"

I'll start off saying that anything that I recommend is Not approved by a md, and I Do NOT consider myself an skilful in this field, so hear me loud and clear: these are merely suggestions of how to make infant nutrient, and are solely my opinions. {Ok, now that THAT'Due south out of the style, permit's curl on.}

Now that I've had my second baby, I will be the outset to tell you lot that every babe is dissimilar. He/she may not consume equally much as your friends baby does, he/she may not like the aforementioned foods, and he/she may not be gear up to swallow infant food at the same time or age that they did. My first son was fix to eat infant food at 6 months. My 2d was 8 months sometime before he'd even look at it.

Here's where some people differ. Some mom'due south start out feeding their baby "cereal," equally a showtime "solid," nutrient, merely I didn't. Why? Honestly because I didn't see much nutritional value in it. I'm sure information technology claims to say information technology supplies vitamins whatever, whatsoever… merely I just had it in my head that feeding my kids veggies & fruits would exist healthier for them. Here's where some of yous moms may say, "Jessica, you're totally incorrect." And that's ok! I love hearing everyone's strategies to how they feed their baby.

 And then the big question: How To Brand Infant Food?

I broil, steam, and boil my fruits and vegetables. With my first infant, I had read that microwaves may not exist the best fashion to set homemade baby nutrient, due to the radiations information technology puts off. Well, you lot already know my stance on providing the BEST for my babe, haha… and so microwaves were out of the question. Take I used microwaves to make baby food for my second kid? Yes. Why? Bluntly because the infant was screaming to eat, I had ran out of homemade baby food, and a sweetness murphy cooked quickly  in the microwave was going to exist the solution.

Depending on the fruit/vegetable, is how I cook information technology.

• I boil apples, pears, zucchini, frozen peas and green beans {I peeled and seeded all of my apples}
• I steam carrots, butternut squash, sugariness potatoes, and zucchini.
• I bake sweet potatoes and butternut squash

For bananas, I simply mash them, since no cooking is required.
{Yes I know I listed some of those twice. I did that considering I switched from time to time, depending on if my steamer was tied up with other fruits & veggies or non.}

Of class there are WAY more fruits and veggies that you tin make for your babe, but those were my repeated staples.

Today, I fabricated a small batch of baby food, to help walk you through how I exercise it. So if you're a "pic-pedagogy," kind of person… I snapped a few JUST for you lot. 😉  I made butternut squash, apples, and zucchini.

Step by Step on How to Brand Baby Food

I begin past washing all of my fruits and vegetables with a veggie wash or a water/vinegar launder. Fifty-fifty if I program to pare the fruit/veggie, I still wash it. Why? Because I'm probably going to "cut" in to the food and the germies will enter the flesh. Yuck. {Yes, I may be a bit of a germaphobe, and then do as you lot wish}

This is the butternut squash. Today, I decided to steam information technology. So after washing it, I cut the squash in one-half, scooped out the seeds a loose fleshy strings (similar you lot would a pumpkin), and placed each half in to my steamer.

Next, I prepared my zucchini. Yep, I washed it, and cut it in to modest pieces. No, I didn't peel information technology considering the pare is soft enough to assimilate and blend downwards to the infant food consistency that I wanted.

When I was done chopping it in to pieces {you lot may not accept to exercise that for zucchini, and it may steam simply fine sliced in half like the squash, only it'southward just a habit of mine to cut in to pieces.} I put it in the second tray of my steamer. {I don't combine the different veggies during the cooking process considering I like to go along it separate for making different blends of food later, and i veggie/fruit may cook faster than the other.

While the zucchini and squash were steaming, I cut, seeded, and peeled my apples. {and done them} 😉

The skin on apples is pretty thick, so I'm e'er afraid of leaving the skin on for my trivial guys stomach.

Today I boiled my apples. I just put purified water in to a pan, brought it to boiling, and then added my apple tree pieces in. I boiled those until they were soft and tender, and removed from the heat to cool down.

Oh yes, my third favorite kitchen small-scale applicance! {#one: Keurig, #ii Kitchen-aid mixer}

This bad boy is a power house food processor, when it comes to making baby food.

Since my apples were done before the other goodies, I started with those. I added the cooled apples to my nutrient processor, and pushed the "on" button. Within seconds, information technology was baby food. Yum-O!

I pour the blended yumminess in to a small bowl, and rinse out the processor for the next batch.

Zucchini was next up. Same process… add the zucchini, turn information technology on, and viola. Information technology's baby nutrient.

With the butternut squash, I scoop out the center and discard the skin. Then… repeat the puréeing process.

At that place we are. My three unlike veggie/fruit purees are completed. Now what, right?

Well when my showtime son was 6 months erstwhile, I bought these precious little baby food storage containers. They're absolutely wonderful. I bought them at Babies R Us, but I have NO idea if they however deport them or not. I beloved them because the lids are attached, and they just press downwards to seal. No fumbling around with containers AND lids.

With this batch, I fabricated single containers of only i fruit/veggie, and then I combined a few for a lilliputian variation. I similar leaving them in layers, rather than mixing them, so I can see later on exactly what is in it.

I found these super crawly labels in the dollar bin at Target. {Aye, I know… I'yard addicted to the dollar bin at Target. Hush}  But they work fantabulous for this. I make sure to characterization each baby food container because I may make a new batch before this i is gone, and I'll want to know which is which, and what date I made it.

Yep, my super cool containers came with super cool trays to store them in also. They're ready for the freezer, and ready for my little guys belly.

A Few Q&A:

Remember I'yard no proficient. But from my feel this is what I know.

• Remember if you lot're merely starting out with feeding your baby, foods like this. It's best to first out with one type of food, and stick with it for a few days to make sure at that place are no allergies associated with that nutrient. If you mix and match at offset, and your baby has a reaction, it will exist hard to pinpoint which food acquired that.
• Some have said they add breast milk and/or formula to their infant food earlier they freeze it. I don't. Why? Considering when I beginning started, I read somewhere that information technology doesn't freeze/mix well with the fruit and veggies. Then if y'all're needing a super sparse consistency for your infant, you can ever add the milk when you thaw it out.
• I always put two or 3 {depending on how much my baby is eating at the time} in the refrigerator to thaw out. That fashion I'm not e'er having to go to the freezer to get a new container.
• When I program to feed my baby, I pull a container out of the refrigerator, and let information technology get close to room temperature, then information technology's not freezing cold when I feed him. {Yep, I've stuck it in the microwave before, when he's super hungry and I'thou not on my game. And so kill me.}
• If you lot put labels on your containers like this. My recommendation is to remove the label earlier you wash them. If you lot don't, your characterization may peel off and make it your dishwasher. If it doesn't peel off during the launder, it's probably going to exist harder to get off after it's been wait. And then skin off before washing.
• Is it hard and time consuming to brand baby food? Yes and no. When I start started, information technology was an all day affair for me. I started out using a small "baby nutrient purée machine," and it took FOREVER making small footling batches. Now, with my food processor. Information technology's a breeze. Plus, you go a system down, and it gets faster/easier over time.
• Do I withal use store bought baby nutrient? Y'all bet. Sometimes, life gets in the manner, and I run out of food before I tin can set aside some time to make it.

Did I miss anything? I just know I did. If you accept a question… leave me a comment below and I'll be HAPPY to answer information technology the best I can.

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