One of the items on my list of parenting philosophies is to try to reasonably avoid doing things for Ace that I wouldn't likely do for subsequent children.
I'm not sure why making baby food from scratch came off of that list, but after spending the past 9 hours peeling, chopping, steaming, and pureeing, it's going RIGHT THE HECK BACK ON.
5 months ago
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LOL! I've never made my own baby food, but I was thinking of *trying* it w/ Brennan. A headache, huh?
Sharon - I think I'm doing it wrong. I'm doing things in bulk with a wee tiny food processor... I'm sure there are better ways to do it. A lot of the stuff I'm reading says just to reserve a little bit of what you're cooking for yourself and blend it up, or just blend up a little right before the baby's ready to eat it. My friend says she just nukes a sweet potato a little before her twins are ready to eat and then blends it up. That's probably a better way, LOL!
Making baby food from scratch is ok, as long as you stick to the easy ones and don't limit yourself to homemade. I almost never bought baby food for my last one, because it was easier to open a can of green beans and smash them with a fork than to bring myself to spend the money. My monkey ended up eating smashed leftover rice with smashed bananas, smashed carrots with smashed bananas, smashed oatmeal with smashed bananas. Ok, we seem to see a pattern here. (Actually, the bananas helped prevent acid-caused diaper rashes, because they're antacid.)
But you won't catch me peeling and preparing. If it came down to that, Gerber here I'd come.
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