Baby Food on the Cheap

We’re now into full baby food mode with Little D at 7.5 months, and I can’t stand to spend all that money on baby food when it’s so easy to make my own for the most part. I’m an inherently lazy person, so something needs to be quick and easy or I’m probably not going to be all that motivated to do it.  With my first one, I was all gung ho on making almost all his food, and I had the time and it was fun to experiment, but with this one I’m only doing the really easy stuff to save some money. So, I buy cans of fruit in light syrup and no salt vegetables in cans or frozen bags, and then just throw them in this Baby Food Processor. A Magic Bullet works great too. If you make a lot at a time you can always freeze in ice cube trays and then pop them out and store in the freezer in freezer bags.

There is a great homemade baby food site called Wholesome Baby Food where you can find everything from how to prepare simple purees to making homemade teething biscuits. It’s the most thorough site I’ve ever run across.

Did you know parents used to give their babies stuff like beef hearts and liver & bacon when they first started selling baby food in jars? Ugh… blech…yuck!

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