Making Your Own Baby Food? - UPDATE Post 16, pg. 2

[LadyShea]

We skipped cereals, purees, and prepared baby foods altogether. At our peds advice we simply overcooked veggies and fork mashed them, and did the same with fruits. I also found it preferable to simply feed him whatever we were eating, and preparing that however necessary (cutting to tiny finger pieces or mashing etc), rather than make him special foods.

Now, at age 2.5, he eats a variety of foods, and has shown no signs of pickiness.

Our fave early foods were buttnernut squash, sweet potatoes, carrots, green beans, and peas.

 

[Zeebs]

We skipped cereals, purees, and prepared baby foods altogether. At our peds advice we simply overcooked veggies and fork mashed them, and did the same with fruits. I also found it preferable to simply feed him whatever we were eating, and preparing that however necessary (cutting to tiny finger pieces or mashing etc), rather than make him special foods.

Now, at age 2.5, he eats a variety of foods, and has shown no signs of pickiness.

Our fave early foods were buttnernut squash, sweet potatoes, carrots, green beans, and peas.

I did puree when Seth first started but now at 6.5 months he just gets stuff mashed with a fork or finely cut up. The reason most people don't move up to lumpy stuff is because the child gags on lumps, before stepping in to remove food and or a slap on the back, just give them a couple of seconds to try and sort it out themselves, this allows the baby to work out how to swallow the lumps and once they can do this everything seems to run along quite nicely after this.

Also if you can't be bothered waiting 45 mins for your sweet potato to bake, just peel it and steam it does the same job.

Kirsten

 

[mommy2allyandaveri]

I made my own baby food too, it was super simple and saved us SO much money.

I found it easier just to buy baby food and take it with us on trips or when we went out to dinner. We tried it a couple of times with our homemade and it was just difficult because we had to find a way to heat it up. Store bought was just easier for us.

 

[Chelley00]

Hi! I made all my own baby food for DS (almost 3) and DD (11.5 mo). I followed this book Super Baby Food by Ruth Yaron.

Another vote for Super Baby Food! She can be a little "crunchy" for people who are not "crunchy" She suggests making your own cereal (which we didn't do) and she's very down on meat, so you have to pick and choose what you are comfortable using, but her her guide in the back about how to pick produce and the methods and timing for cooking and at what age to introduce things is wonderful!

I made babyfood for all 4 of my kids. It's so much cheaper (and better for them too!) I bought a microwave steamer from Tupperware and it has been invaluable for steaming fruits and veggies for babyfood, and I usually used my food processor since it holds more than my blender.

 

[mtakac]

I'm another fan of www.wholesomebabyfood.com. It's really a great resource.
I still buy some cereal and bananas. My son isn't crazy about mashed bananas that I make, but he loves Gerber bananas. I make my own cereal sometimes which you can freeze in cubes. However, I also like to have the powdered stuff around as well to use a a thickener. Good luck!

 

[RadioFanatic]

so - did any of you have tummy issues when you started to feed your baby solids? DS seems to have some constipation - I fed him a little prunes today and it will hopefully work. any other suggestions?