Since being at home I have decided to take on what I thought would be the challenge of making homemade baby food for our infant son. I thought it would be a tedious task and a lot of work to provide a natural choice instead of buying jarred baby food but it was much easier and way more cost effective than I ever thought. For my birthday, I received a baby food maker which made the process a lot easier and faster, but at the same time moms can use their blender or food processor as well to do the same thing. I first go to a local fresh produce market where fruits and veggies are locally grown, next wash all produce, for some food like veggies they must be steamed or boiled first, then I just blend and add water. I freeze almost everything then defrost as our son needs it. The above picture shows squash and bananas, a week supply of each (he eats one serving two times a day) and the cost for two weeks worth of baby food was only $1.57! AMAZING! That's almost the cost of just a few jars of baby food which would definitely not last two weeks! The savings and the fact that it is ALL NATURAL is worth the time put into, which is MINOR! To make two weeks worth of food, it took me about 15 minutes and that was only because I needed to boil the squash, the bananas took about two minutes! WELL WORTH DOING IT! I actually have LOVED making his food and it feels good to know that I am providing a healthy option for our son. So al moms out there... PLEASE TRY IT, your baby will LOVE IT!
