Homemade Baby Food

I started making baby food again. 

I did it with Carson and he only had those nasty jars of baby food once he got to the meats stage, but still didn't really have teeth to chew.  And he only ate them once a day for a month or two.  Carson was/is an awesome eater. 

For Porter, I started making it, but for some reason just didn't do very much and started getting the jars for him.  He was a horrible eater and didn't even eat food until after his 1st birthday.  He still doesn't chew and is super picky.  Poor, Porter!

So I got off of my lazy butt and started making it for Hudson. It is so much better and cheaper.  I made all of this food and it probably took me total of an hour (Hudson has been eating for a little over a month too, so there was more).  The hardest part is running the blender or magic bullet because Porter cries every single time he hears it. 

I use www.wholesomebabyfood.com for ideas and suggestions on when to try what foods.  I have never done my own oatmeal before.  I always just get those rice cereal, oatmeal, barley flakes.  I still have that  because it is an easy way to make the food thicker.  The oatmeal has to be cooked before giving it to baby.  But I just bought a can of steel cut oats and blended it up and put it back in the can, ready to get a spoonful and cook it.  Same with regular oats.  

In the picture I have butternut squash (1 butternut squash), peaches (2 frozen bags of peaches), prunes (2 bags of prunes/dried plums),  sweet potatoes (3 large sweet potatoes), pears (about 2 lbs. of pears, it was probably 5 or 6), acorn squash (1 acorn squash). 

Each cube is a feeding, for now, until he starts to eat more at once.  You pretty much just cook, blend and put in an ice cube tray to freeze.  It's so easy.  And the wholesomebabyfood tells you the best way to cook to keep the most nutrients. 

If you have a little baby, you should make your own food.  They will love it.  Plus it makes the transition to "real" food that is healthy, much easier when they get older because they have already eaten it.  Instead of something where the only resemblence to real food might be color.

Plus, for a couple minutes each day, I kind of feel like Martha Stewart.

And look how happy it makes them!  How could you resist those cheeks!