Baby food is so expensive, yes that is true if you are buying it from the grocery store. But it doesn’t have to be! It is so easy to make and it doesn’t take any more prep than your normal meals!
This may be an unpopular opinion but you don’t have to be so strategic on the foods you’re giving to your infant.
What are you making for dinner tonight? Most likely there is something that you’re already cooking that they can have!
Starting when they can sit up unassisted and have good control of their upper body is when solid foods can start to be introduced. Obviously a small taste of something here and there before that is fine!
But I speak from experience when I say this: when they have tasted some food they like there is no going back. They will try to steal your food and get quite upset when the food stops. (so before solid foods were a full meal I would always have a bottle ready to go afterward!)
So back to dinner, are you making steak & potatoes & peas or chicken & rice & broccoli or a big salad?…yep even that!
Mash up part of a potato, mash up some peas, cook the steak a little extra and cut it into a strip, you get the point. The goal is for them not to choke but for them to taste and try as many foods as possible! And it reality they probably will choke a time or two and it’s scary for both of you but that is part of the learning and growing process!
When we first started letting our little one try solids we got the lifevac just for peace of mind, and it is amazing to have on hand and such a stress reliever!
You don’t have to mix up a bunch of foods to make baby food puree, it can just be 1 ingredient!
Good Foods to Puree
- Bananas
- Peaches
- Peas -cook first
- Broccoli -steam first
- Beets -cook first
- Carrots -cook first
- Sweet Potatoes -cook first
- Apples -steam first
- Beef -cook first
- Salmon-cook first
- Blueberries
- Strawberries
