Betty Crocker does.....BABY FOOD!

This is my How to make baby food at home post.

*Disclaimer, I have ZERO clue what I am doing, I just do alot of homework from other mommas and wing it.*
To start I made carrots, peaches and avacado since that is what I bought at market this week.

#1: First thing is first. Get fresh fruit and veggies. I went with my girls and Hankers to the city market down town to get fresh produce. CHEAP and amazing. Don't get me started on my city market rant again. Grocery store is great too but I love the market. This week we got all of this for $11.50.

Broccoli ($1 for bunch) , Green Beans ($2/lb), Carrots (5 for $1), Limes (9 for $1), Pineapple $1.50), Peaches (3 for $1), corn (2 cobs for $1), Bell peppers (3 for $1) and new potatoes ($2/lb)

Between me and Ali and Audra this is all we bought home :) Fresh gorgeous flowers for $5.

I told him to stop screetching in public.

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Anyway....

#2- Prep fruit and veggies. I peeled and cut up the carrots, and peel the peaches and scraped all the meat out of the avacado. 

#3- For carrots I put them in my trusty baby food maker that steams and purees in one. (I did this with peaches too)

It steams and then once it's finished you puree to the consistency you want and either add the water that dripped from the steam into the bottom or breastmilk. I added both to thin it out pretty runny for him.

#4- Then I poured the puree into my freezer molds and froze it. Those 5 chunky carrots made 30oz of puree. For $1....so yes it's much cheaper! And yes it's healthier, it's not shelf stable so there are no preservatives and it has some breastmilk snuck in so double nutrients. Yay! 

 #5- pop the cubes out and freeze in a gallon freezer ziplock bag with label and date. Then when I am ready, I just pop out a cube into his bowl and thaw it out and away we go. Then it's easy to take on the go (grab a cube of carrots, a cube of pears etc) and it's easy to have a good variety at all times without having to make it that night.

I did peaches in the food maker too and the three peaches made 12oz, an avacado only made 4oz because the majority of the avacado is pit. For the avacado I just mashed it up really well and mixed it with breastmilk until it was thinner and then froze.

EASY EASY EASY. Now I know that this seems like alot of work to some but I made all three of those in 1 hour on a sunday night while Taylor played with Henry and I have TONS of food. To put it in perspective Henry barely finishes a 1oz cube when I feed him with cereal too so it will last a while for now. I have heard alot of talk about this baby led weaning lately and I don't know alot more about it than you skip purees and go strait to soft chunks of real people food that you are eating. To that I say, when I have my 3rd kid and I can't remember my name and have no time to puree seperate food for the baby I might consider throwing cheerios and chunks of mushy peach at him but for now this is fun for me and Henry loves it so puree we will do.