Made with Love

Now that Sophia actually cares to swallow her food (finally!) I feel like all my hard work is paying off. I started making baby food about two weeks before she could start eating. I was so excited about feeding and then when it started, all she did was spit it all over us!

I've always had a lot of fun trying to introduce kids to lots and lots of fruits and veggies, but I never really thought I would be so picky about what my own kids ate (okay, Dan would say that he knew I would be this picky). I feel really strongly about feeding her mostly organic foods and am feeling really good about making her baby food from scratch. Now, who knows if our next child will be so lucky, but for now, this is what I find is best for Sophia.

I've been reading a lot about how the packaged baby food is nutritional just fine, but tastes a lot like the canned version of the food, rather than tasting fresh, so this is what I'm doing so far. Not to mention, it's SUPER economical!

Tonight, I made apples. And after making them, I may not EVER do it again. I HATE peeling fruits and veggies and apples are the worst. However, for about $4.00 I made 32 servings (ice cube size) of organic applesauce. Not bad!


We've also had homemade sweet potatoes (which tasted great, but were not orange - does that mean they weren't sweet potatoes?), peas, carrots and blueberries. Most of the blueberries actually ended up in my morning smoothie when I found out she couldn't eat them yet. She's also had avocado and banana but mashing food with a fork doesn't really count as "cooking."

Something else that I've been surprised by is how over the past couple of years, I've started to feel very strongly about recycling and not being wasteful. Because of that, I really like that by using plastic bags to store the baby food in the freezer I can re-use each bag when I run out and make a new batch.

But, the best part is that when I feed S the food I've made it actually smells good enough to eat, which I guess means I'm doing a good job!

I found a lot of great information and recipes at: http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/