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How do you make homeade baby food?

I want to make some healthy organic baby food and need a little help. Any recipes?

Public Response to How do you make homeade baby food?

1. Blender
2. boil sum carrots , green beans,and string beans untill soft mush and mix add a dash of salt and a generous amount of sugar
3. After 6 months you can do so many things... You can blend fruit, vegetables and meat, fish and potatoes. It depends on your baby's taste. Add some parmesan to add flavour instead of salt. It has lots of proteins and calcium.
4. It's very simple. Babies are not used to fancy flavors like we are and many spices can be to hard for baby to digest anyways. Simply buy your favorite organic fruits and veggies and steam them. After they are soft mash them with a food processor or blender or anything that will leave food with no chucks. Don't add salt. Let the baby get used to tasting the food as it is naturaly. Voila! As baby gets older and if you eat meat you can do the same with chicken, egg whites and lean cuts of beef. Also you can smash cooked rice and combine veggies with meat and rice. I have 2 kids and I never fed them jared baby food, I always made my own in that way.
5. HI THERE ONE RECIPIE I KNOW OF YHAT WORKED REALLY WELL FOR MY FIRST BABY GOES LIKE THIS BOIL SOME POTATOS,PUMKINS, AND ANYTHING GREEN,IF U LIKE CARROTS TOO. THEN BLEND THEM ALL TOGETHER WITH A TEA SPOON OF VEGIMITE AND A SMALL AMOUNT OF MILK. HAVE A TASTE TEST . IT SHOULD TASTE OK TO US. YOU DONT NEED TO ADD ANY SALT OR PEPPER . IT SHOULD BE FINE .YOU CAN DO THIS WITH MOST VEGIES AS LONG AS YOU AD VEGIMITE OR HONEY. THEY SHOULD LOVE IT ONCE THEY GET THERE TASTE BUDS ADAPTED.TO EATING A DIFFERENT RANGE OF FOODS. MY BOY LOVED IT FROM 6 MONTHS ON YOU DONT NEED TO MAKE MUCH BUT YOU CAN ALWAYS FREZZE IT. GOOD LUCK MARIA
6. steam your fresh veggies,place in blender or food processor. for individual servings use ice cube trays and freeze. then air tight containers for use as needed. can be mixed into cereal with breastmilk for a meal.
7. if you would like to make fruit you take lets say a mango you peel the skin and you take a blender or mixer and grind it up very fine until its very smooth and not a lot of chunks are in it!!
8. One of the previous answers here suggests giving your baby honey. DO NOT GIVE HONEY TO A BABY UNDER A YEAR OLD - it can contain botulism spores, which can be fatal for a baby. Making your own baby food is the healthiest choice for your baby and you can introduce fruits and vegetables from 6 months. It is important to introduce each new food 4 days apart, in order to spot potential food allergies and digestive problems. You can begin combining flavours once your baby has been introduced to each food separately - fruit and vegetables together are surprisingly tasty - many babies like apple and carrots! Try visiting http://www.homemade-baby-food-recipes.com - there is lots of advice there about what foods to introduce at each stage and tips on how to prepare it. Good luck and happy cooking!
9. The site I went to to find information of making baby food for my son is www.wholesomebabyfood.com. Also, the book Super Baby Food is very informative. She urges you to feed only organic foods, and there are recipes and menu guides in the book to help you out. I made 3 different types of food for him a few days ago, and it took about 30 minutes, and that included baking time for the sweet potatoes and pears! Oh, and do not listen to anyone that says to add salt or sugar to your baby's food! Babies do not need all that extra flavoring that adults are used to, and its bad for them!
10. I got a Magic Bullet little blender and it is wonderful for making pureed baby food. You can take some frozen peas, put them in the Magic Bullet cup, microwave for 1 minute, then blend and feed baby right out of the cup (as long as it has cooled down to room temp). Also does a great job with carrots, pears, etc. I know I sound like a commercial but the thing really does work. What I do is give the baby some fruit or some of whatever cooked veggies we are eating that night BEFORE they are seasoned or salted. I am not into that complicated freezing business; I like to just give whatever we eat, as long as it's age-appropriate.
11. All you really need is a steamer or, if you must, a pot, and a blender of some kind, and probably a sieve. Start by cooking single vegetables (sweet potato, potato, carrot, squash) or fruits (they have to be cooked until the baby is 8 months old) and then blending them with a little of the cooking water (except for the carrot - use other liquids) formula or breastmilk until they're smooth enough. Then measure tablespoons and freeze. After you've properly introduced foods, you can add more like green beans or broccoli (press stringy foods through the sieve with a spoon to get the strings out). Broccoli actually goes over pretty well when you mix it with potato. After baby is used to all the veggies you can try mixing them together. I often mix a veggie into prepared rice cereal when I first introduce it so that the new taste isn't as overwhelming. I do 3 new foods every 3 weeks. Oh - banana and avocado don't need to be cooked, just mashed up. Do the banana right when you're going to use it or else it goes a nasty brown (1/4 banana is usually plenty).
12. http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/ http://homecooking.about.com/od/specificfood/a/babyfooddos.htm