Making Baby Food

Carrots, Yummy!

Now don't get me wrong...I wasn't on board with the whole "make your own baby food" at first. After all, I ate pureed peas out of jar so it must be good enough for my kids. And it is just as good...but it's a whole lot cheaper to make your own! And it's way easier than I thought. A lot of the moms in our twins club make their own and are always talking about how easy it is and how you get so much food from such little amount of veggies. And another mom suggested I get used to making their own food because I would soon be making breakfast, lunch and dinner for them anyway...do it now while it's easy.

So I gave it a try...I mean, I am a chef...how hard can pureed veggies be? I got to the farmer's market every week anyway...I should really just give it a try...

It is soo incredibly easy and so amazingly cheap!! Let me do the math for you...I got at least 14 feeding out of $1.50 of organic carrots. That works out to about to roughly $.11 a feeding, split that in half per baby and your looking at about $.05 a baby. Baby food in the store cost anywhere from $.50 to $.85 a jar (depending on organic and what's on sale). Yeah, it's huge savings. And it really doesn't take much time. Just steam, puree in the blender and pour in ice trays. I need to get more trays now...I'm going crazy with the veggies. I got sweet potatoes, summer squash, apples, peaches and peas at the market today. Here is the carrots and sweet potatoes I did last week...start and finish...