Making My Own Baby Food....

I used a Magic Bullet and made all of my own baby food for my 2nd child - I used this cool book called "First Meals" by Annabel Karmel. I also bought these little cubes from One Step Ahead (2 sets) to put the food in. I thought they were more convenient than ice-cube trays. It was well worth it and soooo easy - wish I had done it with my first as well.

When I made baby food the only thing I kept in mind was No sugar or salt. I did everything natural. Fresh from the garden veggies were boiled, either blended or diced, and then sealed in vaccumn bags and then frozen.

Keep it simple, cook, puree, and freeze in ice cube trays.

I found an old-fashioned food mill to be useful for making baby food because it removes peels (like on peas). I suppose a good food processor just grinds them up, but I didn't have one at the time. You can also use a food mill for making applesauce. I found mine brand new at Goodwill. (here's a link/ picture of one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_mill)

That's awesome that you're planning on making your own babyfood! I did, and it was well worth it. I credit making my own baby food with my now 16-month old's great eating habits. She loves her veggies, and I'm pretty sure that it's because she ate the exact same veggies as a baby (I don't care what people say, jarred baby food does not taste like the real thing!). The website that I lived by was www.wholesomebabyfood.com - they had great guidelines and recipes! They only thing I would say is do not follow their guidelines on when you can give fish or avacado. My pediatrician recommended waiting until closer to a year to introduce both. Two other tips - I've found that Trader Joe's organic frozen veggies are by far the best for making both baby food and for using as finger foods as your child gets older. Also, invest in an electric baby food grinder and lots of freezer trays with lids (that way they're stackable in your freezer, unlike ice cube trays that tend to stick together). Kidco makes the electric grinder for about $25 and they have the freezer trays as well. Just google Kidco and you should find their site. Good luck! Your venture will be worth the little extra work!

I used the same website as the other post. Also this one. www.wholesomebabyfood.com

But those recipes are more effort that I'm typically willing to spend.

What I usually do is take fresh or frozen vegetables, cook them in my microwave steamer (or boil until can be punctured with a fork), blend them in the blender, adding water as needed, and freeze them in my muffin tray. Once frozen I remove the trays for 2-5 minutes until the food slides out and I put them in a larger freezer bag.

I'm feeding 8 month old twins, so I take two "muffins" out, heat them for 1 min 45 sec in the microwave, stir and feed.

So far I have done corn, peas, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, sweet potato, avocado, banana and applesauce (out of the jar).

I made teething biscuits from the wholesome site, but the twins aren't ready for them-so they're in the freezer too.

I hope this is helpful, if you have questions, feel free to ask. I do this weekly.

Here's a good site: http://www.homemade-baby-food-recipes.com/index.html

I just used ice trays to freeze my food, and when frozen, zip-locks.

Making baby food is easy. Start real easy: avocado and banana. Both will freeze. I'd just put chunks of them in ice trays. They didn't discolor too bad either. No cooking involved!

Also, pears and apply are easy. Just put a tiny bit of water in a pan with the cut up fruit, simmer with a lid until soft.