Baby Food! Part 3

Part three the final part! ( I know your relieved!)

One of the easiest things you can do to make your own food is smash it in a bowl. I picked a banana. It would work with most anything that's soft and mushy!


Here you can see it smashed, easy and it's ready to be fed to baby or to freeze.


Here is another way to do it if you don't have a mixer. (like in part 2) I bought mine locally for about $10. Here is one on Amazon for about the same price. (My main use for this is as the baby gets older and starts eating table food.)

Here it is with some peaches in it.

And here it is "grinding" the peaches.


And here they are ready to eat.

Something else I like about making my own food is I can choose what to make. I haven't bought jars for about 5 years so maybe this has changed....Avocados are very healthy,but you cant buy it in a jar. So your baby misses out on the benefits. Another bonus to me, I can mix things. What I mean by that is if your baby doesn't like something (green beans,avocados) you can add something else to it. Reuben gets avocados/sweet potatoes/and a fruit. He will eat it this way. Plain avocados GAG him. (which I totally understand!!)

Baby Food! Part 2

Step 1: Buy sweet potatoes. (you can use any fruit or veggie you'd like!)

Step 2: Cook sweet potatoes

Step 3: Get out this wonderful contraption.

Step 4: Attach the food grinder on to it.

Step 5: Get the sweet potatoes out of the oven. (I let mine cook for an hour and a half or more. I wanted to be sure they were done.)



Step 6: Start taking the peel off.

Step 7: Cut them up.


Step 8: Put the cut up pieces into the food tray, and turn on the mixer.

Step 9: This is the sweet potatoes all done. I added a little bit of water to get the consistency I wanted.

Step 10: Get out your ice cube trays and make sure they are clean and sterile.

Step 11: Fill up the trays and put in the freezer.

These freeze up within an hour or two. After they are frozen take them out of the tray and put them in a freezer bag. You can store them in the freezer for at least 6 months. When baby is ready to eat pull out the bag and put a cube or 2 in a bowl. Microwave for a few seconds or if you don't want to use the microwave put them in the fridge a few hours before meal time.

I bought 4 sweet potatoes for $3.10. (they were $.99 lb, I think) I got 30 cubes out of the 4 potatoes. A jar of baby food (natures goodness) at Meijer is $.43. I think you get 3 cubes of food per jar. So if that's true I got 10 jars for $3.10. I saved $1.20.

Now I can already hear a lot of you saying I'm crazy and it's not worth it. YOU have to make that decision for yourself!! For me it is so worth it, I really enjoy it!

*Bonus for me*

My green beans are almost free. (from the garden) I also got carrots this year from an Amish lady that works with Mark, totally free! I've got applesauce in the freezer. (not sure on the price per serving, I pay $15-18 for a bushel)(I'm quite sure it's less than a baby food jar would be) I have peaches (these would be the most expensive)that I can in the summer, again not sure on the price. So I really have a fair amount that I don't have to buy, or haven't had to pay much for.

Stay tuned for more..........

Baby Food! Part 1

Yes I make my own baby food!


I know, I know can I get much weirder??? (yes I can, but that's a post for another day!)


Baby food is very easy to do! I realize that most of you who read this don't have babies, but...........I have another idea for you.


I have some picky eaters in this house!! Do any of you have those??? Probably not, huh!!! Do yours always ask for more brussel sprouts!! Well not the case here! (Of course we've never had brussel sprouts!!!)(Zeke is the worst one) Raw carrots and (literally) 5 peas is his veggie intake. We don't have those 2 particular veggies every night so most days Zeke gets 0 veggies. My whole family could use more, considering none of us have the 5-9 we should have. Mark and I had been discussing nutrition aaaannnd I was making baby food, then it hit me.


This brilliant idea..... While I'm making supper I could take 2-3 cubes of my "baby food" and throw it into our food. (Mostly casseroles.) I know some of our meals it won't work, but I'm going to be experimenting to see how it goes! I of course will pass along my experiences to you.


Hopefully it works!!!!

I'm really struggling..........

Do you know what this little guy is doing????????? He went from this cute tiny helpless baby

TO......

rolling from his back to his stomach

TO..........

a little boy who is starting to sit up. (As you can tell he still has a long way to go til he has it mastered!)

He even was dressed in a 6-9 month outfit today. It's a little long in the legs, but only a little!
(he will be 5 months old next Wednesday)

All of this happened this past week.(except the baby part!!!)
I'M NOT READY. My heart is a little broken, but I'm trying to embrace it!

Update!

I called the Dr. today and I was told that the cyst hadn't changed and the Radiologist was not at all concerned. So I'm very thankful. I'm glad that the little guy is healthy and hopefully we will have smooth sailing til he makes his appearance! And no we still haven't decided on a name. We like bible names. I like different ones, Mark favors simple ones. It makes it a challenge. We have talked about Gideon and Silas as 2 possible choices. Please feel free to leave suggestions!!! I hope that you all have a great day.

Psalm 146:1-2
1 Praise the Lord!
Let all that I am praise the Lord.
2 I will praise the Lord as long as I live.
I will sing praises to my God with my dying breath.

Ultrasound update

Thank you so much for praying! I greatly appreciate it.

I guess it's a boy! The tech stopped and something was sticking up and she said oh did you want to know what your having? We said yeah that's fine, she said It may be a boy..... So we aren't sure if that's all she wanted to say since I'm not very far along. But more importantly it's healthy, and my date is right where it should be!

Prayer Request

I know this is a little silly, but tomorrow is my first doctor appointment. I always worry that maybe something is wrong w/ the baby. I know God is in control and if something is wrong he knows all about it and can either heal the baby or take it. It's in his hands. When I hear the heartbeat for the first time I feel much better and I know it's a sin for me to worry so if you think about it pray for me tomorrow. Thank You!