How to Make Your Own Baby Food The Easy Way?

  Is your baby about to start eating solid foods? Thinking of making your baby food?

When you prepare your first baby food, you can save money and reduce waste. You can also choose more nutritious options. For example, fresh foods are often more nutritious than canned foods, and you can buy organic foods to prepare for your baby if you want. You can also avoid unhealthy ingredients found in commercial baby foods.

Making baby food doesn't have to be expensive or time-consuming. The easiest and cheapest way is the best!

The easiest way to prepare your baby's porridge:

1) Don't bother buying one of those baby meat grinders. They are challenging to clean and too annoying.

2) If you wait until your baby is six months old to start solids, you can always mash with a fork to your desired consistency.

You can also wait for the baby's "pincer grasp" to develop and offer small treats such as peas, grated apple bits, and the like if you are breastfeeding. A pincer grasp develops when a child can pinch small objects (like those little bits of lint on the carpet or food on the kitchen floor) between the thumb and forefinger. If you have a family tendency toward food allergies, it may be preferable to wait longer before starting solid foods. Regardless of the child's age, always offer one food at a time and wait several days for signs of allergy before submitting another. Take it easy.

3) Start with fresh, single-ingredient foods like:

Banana

Carrots, turnips, potatoes, steamed yams

avocado

Ripe pear, peach, melon, plum

cooked pumpkin

Raw or steamed grated apple

green peas

well-cooked beans

Cooked egg yolks (avoid egg whites for up to 1 year)

Some of these foods can be served raw. Others are lightly steamed (steaming contains more nutrients than canning) to make them softer for the baby.

4) You don't need to do a lot of work preparing baby food.

If you want to spend a lot of time mixing food and freezing it in ice cube trays, you can do that. But I am for the straightforward approach!

While you want to avoid giving your baby salt and sugar (and spices that could upset their stomach), you can usually grab an ingredient from your menu and "make" the baby's dinner.

For example, if you're steaming vegetables for dinner, remove a spoon from the pan before adding the butter and salt. Put this on the baby's plate and mash it up. Here you are! Instant baby food with no extra work. Or take some meat from your roast and mash until very smooth.

Even in a restaurant, you can bring an apple and "grate" it finely with a spoon at the table, or get a banana or other portable food. Of course, any restaurant with a salad bar would cook beans or avocados. Or give the kid some of his baked potato (before adding the above treats).

Life with a newborn is difficult enough. So keep starting with solids the easy way!

Making Your Baby Food

Making solid items and blending them into purees takes roughly the same amount of time as cooking dinner for yourself, and it can be done concurrently. You can even prepare your baby's food out of most of the foods you eat, mainly if your meals include plenty of fruits and vegetables.

To prepare food for homemade baby purees, do the following:

Wash all fresh foods and peel any fruits or vegetables with a skin or peel (like apples, carrots, or potatoes). There's no need to wash or cut frozen fruits and veggies; place them in the steamer and go from there.

Make bite-sized pieces of the food.

Steam the food over one inch of water (on the stovetop using a steamer basket, in a microwave steamer bag, or a baby food maker) until it is fork-tender (soft enough to mash with a fork after being steamed for about 10 minutes, potentially less).

Drain the cooking liquid, but pour a small amount of it back into the blender with the rest of the cooked food to replenish some nutrients lost while cooking. (Putting some of the liquid cooking back into the puree can also help make it smoother for thicker or grainier items like squash.)

Puree the meal using a blender, food processor, or baby food maker. For younger babies, you'll want the smoothest consistency possible. Mash it with a fork or a baby food masher for a chunkier texture when your baby is ready.