Making Your Own Baby Food & Disney

[maciec]

For those that make your own baby food. What did you do when you went to Disney? DS will be 7m when we are there. I haven't started making his food yet, but I am going to. My parents are driving down, but they take 2 days to get there so sending it with them I don't think is an option unless I can find someplace around here that sells dry ice.

 

[momto2js]

I made food for ours when they were babies but bought jars for when we were out and about. Keeping premade baby-food cool enough and available enough while you are touring is an added stress that you just don't need. While commerical food is more expensive, it isn't really a deal breaker on a disney vacation.

 

[twinboysmom]

I made a lot of my boys food but for travel I just bought the higher end organic baby food. That would be my recommendation.

 

[Shleedogg]

I made DD's food too, and we went to WDW when she was 8 mos. I asked the same question before we left. We ended up buying a few of the plastic container ones and just feeding her bites off our plates. We just made sure we ordered stuff that she could eat, pasta, mashed potatoes and then would give her a container of peas or carrots. I was still nursing a lot too so we had no issues with feeding her. It just wasn't worth it to try to lug down frozen homemade baby food for a few days. Have a great trip!! We had so much fun w/ DD that trip. It was so easy. She was such a chill baby and LOVED meeting all the characters.

 

[maciec]

thanks! I think that's what I will end up doing too!

 

[1983disneykid]

I took DD when she was 7 months. We hadn't started feeding her solids until 5.5 months. I had no problem making baby food down there. (This looks overwhelming, but it really wasn't.)

I choose not to introduce anything new while we were there, and the two preceding days. I wanted to make certain that I would be home in case of any allergic reactions.

I packed take and toss baby spoons, about 2 dozen disposable 5 oz souffle cups with lids, and dried oatmeal (my proudest mommy thing--that was the only processed "baby" food she ever ate).

Looking at your signature, I am assuming that you are staying in a DVC resort, which makes it even easier, since you will have dish detergent and a sink/sponge to clean/dry everything.

Since we waited to start solids, she had been eating: oatmeal, sweet potatoes, avocado, bananas, carrots, and peas. I had bought each of them when we did our shopping trip. I only made two things every other day, microwaving the veggies. Then all you have to do is mash them up--ripe bananas, sweet potatoes, and avocados are super-easy, and if you can cook the peas and carrots well enough, they aren't bad either. I'd freeze leftovers in the disposable containers and use one of them for breakfast. Once everything was made, I just defrosted as I went. If I was bringing food to the park, it would usually be defrosting in the diaper bag. If it was still frozen, I would just ask for a cup of warm water to finish it off.

At 7 months, it's barely nutritional (mostly still coming from bf/formula). So DD would be given food twice a day with us, and only took me maybe 10 minutes while we were in the villa to prepare it.

In hind-sight, I wish I would have brought my hand potato masher with me. It probably would have been easier than using the spoon/fork combo I used.

 

[Karenj2]

When our DD was 9 months old, we went to Disney, and I got PlumOrganics food pouches delivered to the resort via Diapers.com. It was PERFECT! She really wasn't eating all that much solids (banana bits, mashed potatoes, oatmeal, etc.), so having the purees were a great way to get her some fruits. She was primarily breast fed.

She's 16 months old now, and eating all kinds of foods, but I still buy those pouches for her as snacks in the car, or if we're traveling and don't get good quality food.

 

[hannahdrewmom]

At 9 months the food is really "optional" as there isn't much high value coming from it. We did mainly bananas, avocados, and things off our plates. I didn't bring anything with me other than the dried oatmeal. Breastmilk/Formula are really the best thing you can do at that age. But the table food will come in handy to keep them busy at that age.... it's really more about sociallization than nutrition. Good luck!

 

[jessica52877]

At 9 months I fed DS table food off our plates, fruit that I brought (bananas smashed or the single pack fruits), cheerios and formula. He ate alot off our plates at age already though.

 

[snoopy5386]

at 7 months I'd just skip food while I was at disney. Most are eating very little at that age.

 

[bumbershoot]

at 7 months I'd just skip food while I was at disney. Most are eating very little at that age.

We didn't need to worry about food for DS until he was nearly a year. Made things so much easier! Since you aren't giving him foods yet, I'd just wait longer for it.

Also, as nice as homemade baby food is (compared to commercial stuff), I've always felt that you're setting yourself up for troubles in the future, by making *different* foods than what you're eating. If your'e nursing, baby is getting light flavors of the foods you're eating through the milk. He's getting primed to live in your household. To feed different foods confuses that. Then he gets used to *that*, and then later you switch toddler to the food on your table, and it can get confusing again at that time.

My mom, who started solids just WAY too stinkin' early (as did DH's mom, and we have the food sensitivities that tend to go along with that), had a good idea in the Happy Baby Food Grinder, which just sits on the table. Put your food in the hopper, turn the handle, out comes mush that tastes like what your'e eating. No confusion. My MIL, who was questionable at parenting in many ways, did about the same. She's Korean and uses Korean spices, but she would dunk the food in water, to take the heaviest spices off the food, mush it up and give it to her babies/toddlers. Same food, no problems with different food flavors/tastes in the future!


Not that you asked for all of that, but hopefully it's helpful. My mom always gave those food grinders at showers, because they were SO easy. Now they are called KidCo, but they are the same thing. I actually bought one before I realized that I wouldn't be feeding my little dude food until he could really EAT it (except for one "grindered" banana when I lost my mind, LOL), and it still sits here, waiting for me to get it to someone else. (but I keep telling people about my experience and no one wants it after that, silly me!)

Anyway, if you're going to do the mushy-food thing, it's really a good piece of equipment.