Tuesday, March 22, 2011

First Homemade Baby Food

Last Sunday was my first attempt at making homemade baby food for the boys.  I have wanted to try my hand at it since I received my new food processor at Christmas.  I started out with frozen peas which I steamed in the microwave. 


I put them in the food processor, with some added water, to puree. 













It was very quick & easy and appeared to be a success to me, although I did notice that I was not able to get the pea skins as finely pureed as the store-bought peas.  I put a majority of the pea puree in freezer-ready baby food storage cubes which I purchased at Babies ‘R Us. 




I left a little bit out to mix in with the boys’ cereal/veggie supper that evening.  I found out then, that was the real test of my success.  The boys’ were not very fond of the texture of my pea puree at all!  I am planning on mixing the peas in with other veggies so, hopefully, the texture is masked a little bit more.  Even though they were very easy, I’m not going to attempt to do peas again for a while.  My next project: sweet potatoes.

On a side-note: Since my purchase of the Babies ‘R Us brand containers, I’ve read a few reviews which complained about the tops of the containers “popping open” while in the freezer.  I did experience this with a couple of my frozen pea containers.  The other method I have read about & am going to try out is freezing the puree in ice cube trays and popping the cubes out and storing them in a freezer safe bag.

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