From the beginning I’ve wanted to make Emma’s baby food, because I don’t want to feed her processed food… I found out later Gerber makes an organic version with less preservatives… but I’m still going to make it. I asked for and received a food processor and the recipe book First Meals by Annabel Karmel for Christmas and went out and purchased a collapsible steamer, because by steaming the vegetables and fruits it preserves the maximum nutrients. We started Emma on Beech-Nut rice cereal for baby… easy pour my ass! Which is a great first solid, and Emma enjoys it. When we decided to move to veggies Jenn had already accumulated quite a few coupons for baby food (and not using them is like throwing money away) and I really wasn’t prepared to manufacture baby food yet… so we bought her first round of eats.
Last Friday we bought all the suggested first foods, sweet potatoes, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, pears and peaches… and on Saturday, after breakfast we started the process of making baby food… and what a process it became. We pealed, steamed and processed and repeated… and cleaned the processor at least 4 times (by the way, the carrots stained my processor orange)… Jenn baked the potatoes and scooped them out of their skin… and then it was all measured out and froze… in total… it took all day.
The thing is… as Jenn pointed out, it cost more than buying processed baby food and a huge pain… but in the end, we would like to think she is getting more nutrition and that is what it’s really about… and she really enjoys eating it.
