Adventures in babyfood

Avi, now six months, has been eating fruits and veggies for about two weeks and let me tell you it has definitely been an adventure. A wonderful adventure! As I have stated I love to save money so I figured why not make his baby food. I am telling you, if you have about an hour to spare every few weeks, making homemade baby food is a breeze.

I started with steamed carrots. I blended them up in the Magic Bullet, which works out perfect. I have had the Bullet for years and never really used it until now. There are other machines you can buy that are specific for baby food such as the Beabe Babycook that runs for about $140. Yes, this machine steams and blends the food all in one, but why buy a one-trick-pony when all you have to do is use a pot and a blender?

I knew that if I was going to keep up with making Avi’s baby food I needed something to freeze the food in. First I bought the Baby Food Storage Cubes by Baby Cubes at Babies R Us for $9.99. These are great. There are two sizes, one ounce and two ounces, and they come with a storage tray for the freezer. While I really liked these for storing food I didn’t so much for the freezing. The negative about the cubes is that the food is stuck in them once frozen, which doesn’t work out so great if you want to make more food than will fit in the 8 containers.

Instead of buying another set of 8 cubes I bought the Perfect Cube ice trays at Sur La Table for $12 for a set of two. These are food grade silicone, each tray has 15  cubes that are 1 1/4 ounce each.

These are the best thing! The silicone makes it easy to get the food out  once it is frozen and the size is perfect for mixing flavors. Once frozen, I store each flavor in plastic freezer bags in the freezer.

Corn, edamame, green beans and strawberries

Now frozen and ready to go in bags

All I do now is pull out what I need; it only takes about 20 seconds in the microwave to unthaw.  The best part of these trays is when Avi is done with pureed foods I can still use them for ice or other things. I love tools that can multi-task.

So far Avi has experienced carrots, roasted yams, peas, avocado, banana, strawberry and nectarine. Oddly the banana is the only food he is not too fond of. I am eager to give him the corn, edamame and green beans I made last night. I have to add, I do not add anything to his food. No salt. No butter. Just the fruit or veggie.

Avi's first peas

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