Solid Foods:Making Homemade Baby Food

How do I make homemade baby food?

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babyfood.recipes@yahoo.com - 199 days ago.
hi there! if you really want to know about baby food recipes you can check out babyfood.com for awesome recipes made just for babies... and you can also share some of your recipes too... so hope this helps!

katiebear - 1062 days ago.
mj, how much did u pay for the magic bullet?

redheadmama - 1525 days ago.
oh my gosh yeah, I LOVE the Beaba Babycook. I was making baby food using pots on the stove & my food processor, but this is soooo much easier. I don't have to watch it nonstop, I can start it, leave it, it turns itself off, doesn't scorch or burn... it makes a good amount -- not too much, not too little. It's perfect. So fast, so easy, so healthy. I'd recommend it to anyone wanting to make baby food. For the last two months I have made food and frozen it (pureed) in ice cube trays, then store the cubes in labled ziplocs in the freezer. Now I am starting to transition DS into eating what we eat. So when I make us chicken, potatoes, and green beans for dinner -- I just toss a little plan chicken, plain potato, and beans into the Beaba -- turn it on, let it cook, and there you go. Love it!!!

1stnoel - 1576 days ago.
redheadmama: Do you really like that baby food maker?? My mom used to work at the call center for Williams Sonoma so she gets a 40% discount until the middle of March and then it ends. She keeps trying to buy that for me, but I felt like that was too expensive and a waste of money when I already have everything I need.

1stnoel - 1576 days ago.
I thought making your own baby food just sounded so time consuming and difficult, but after coming across the www.wholesomebabyfood.com website, I was totally wrong! EXCELLENT website! Also, it's good to hear that the Baby Cubes work well. I just ordered them yesterday. A friend gave me a baby food processor so that's what I was going to use, until I read that the Magic Bullet works awesome! I've had one for years and never once used it! I think I will try using both and see what's better.

redheadmama - 1577 days ago.
Wow, I just had to leave a message here: I was given a Beaba baby food cooker/blender for my birthday this weekend and am so totally in love with it! Making my son's baby food is now so much easier. So if you have $150 to spare, or know someone who wants to buy you a great gift... look them up. My mom got mine at Williams & Sonoma. It's the best, & I think I'm hooked. :)

mickyg0606 - 1577 days ago.
Here is a great website for anyone interested in making their own baby food http://wholesomebabyfood.com. Ice crystals are nothing to worry about when it comes to freezing baby food. The crystals are just the liquid freezing not freezer burn. It actually talks about the crystals on this website.

JenO - 1578 days ago.
I tried the ice cube tray/ziploc method but found that there was ice crystals on the food. Then I found 'Baby Cubes' and they are awesome. Google them and you will see them

JenWVU - 1579 days ago.
Oh and the book suggests freezing your food in ice cube trays. Then once it is frozen, putting the frozen cubes in ziploc freezer bags. You can put one or two cubes in each bag to make your serving size.

JenWVU - 1579 days ago.
I also have that book... Super Baby Food. I love it! My son is 4 1/2 months and I am so pumped to start making my own food. I am going to introduce veggies when he is 5 months and I can't wait to start making my own baby food! I think the book said not to thaw your food out at room temp. You can put it in the fridge overnight to thaw out for the next day. Or you can microwave it slightly to thaw it.

marie83 - 1579 days ago.
Ladies my son is 4 months and I want to start food at 5 months, but I have a question about how to dethaw the baby food after being frozen. Do you place it in the microwave or leave it at room temp? Has anyone found any neat storage containers for the freezer?

thannyswifey - 1579 days ago.
Just bought a book called Super Baby Food by Ruth Yaron. Its an amazing book about how to make baby food. What age to feed what and how all these preparations tips, recipies and advice. Good book. Thanks for the magic bullet idea ladies.

smurfwxmama - 1606 days ago.
Ok so I have made some of my own baby food, only got strong enough to do sweet potatoes, green beans, and bananas so far, going to wait and make sure he'll eat the other ones before I make it myself. Got a couple of questions though....so my green beans looked so much better, greener and such than the regular jarred stuff but it wasn't the smooth consistentcy as the jar, but he seemed to like it so is that ok then???? And the bananas I did do not look like the jarred stuff either, could that be because of the age of the bananas or because i might have waited too long after cutting them to puree them?? He just started eating carrots and seems to like them so I'll be making those probly this next weekend, and have not decided about peas yet, all I have is a blender and a hand mixer, can't afford anything else. and then what do you do when they are getting older and need the thicker stuff?? If you can comment my page as well that'd be great thanks!!

Heather12 - 1614 days ago.
I have started my 6 month old on solid foods. I am making my own this time. It is so easy and fun. Even the big sisters help make Aliyah baby food. I thought that it would be very time consuming. but its not. I just make it and freeze it plus I save so much money. i love it. I'm trying to talk my best friend to do it also.

Mjamison - 1625 days ago.
also if your child doesnt like sweets and you are trying to give them fruits... add some rice ceral to them! My son will not eat fruit unless I add some ceral! I cant even get him to take juice becuase he HATES sweets! Guess not really a bad thing!

Mjamison - 1625 days ago.
The best advice I can give on making your own baby food is the MAGIC BULLET! WOW that thing is amazing and if you watch JCPenny, they have it on sale all the time! I used to use the blender and went out of town to my parents and they had one! So much easier!!! Love that thing that even now my sister in law is making her daughters baby good because I made it look so easy!

erica93 - 1647 days ago.
I just started making my own baby food a few weeks ago and loving it! I steam the food in a steamer (after peeling/coring and taking seeds out) and then I just puree it in the magic bullet. And it is done! So easy-that is the best way I have found to do it. I have made squash, green beans, pears, apples, sweet potatoes and she loves it=).

primetime - 1660 days ago.
My son has a rare genetic disorder and he can not have milk surgars or certian proteins. I was thinking about making my own baby food so I would not have to worrie about the additives in processed baby food. We are going to talk with a nutritionist tomorrow. My question is what is the best way to cook and puree the food. If anyone has any sugestions, I would love to hear.