On Monday, I spent the majority of my day preparing baby food. With my eight month old, I've been using a combination of homemade food and jarred food (when I can find the jarred on sale). She's been eating more and more - I think more than the others ate at one time - and so even the sale prices weren't sounding so good anymore. I decided that I could make the more mixed foods myself. (Which is the one thing I haven't tried before.) So I roasted a large butternut squash, baked eight large sweet potatoes, cooked up some carrots, cooked some brown rice, and then set to work. The squash I pureed alone, as well as some of the sweet potatoes. Then I made a couple mixes. The first one I made used a sweet potato, carrots, corn, brown rice, and pork. The second one used a sweet potato, carrots, corn, brown rice and tomatoes. Most of this stuff was organic that I bought at Ingles! I plan on making one more with corn, green beans and pork. It turned out to be a lot of food - all those ice cube trays are filled and the jars and containers on the bottom are too!
I need to do that. I have sweet potato, pumpkin and zucchini puree in the freezer, but I often just get lazy and use the jarred stuff. Liam eats about 5 cartons/jars of food a day now, so it's adding up!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I thought it'd be cheaper with coupons and stuff to buy her some food. (I still made the easy things.) But with her eating more and more, it's easier to just make a bunch at once. We got a Vita-Mix a few months ago and it makes it a breeze to puree it all!
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