Home made baby food

When I first heard the words, "home made baby food" come out of our pediatrician's mouth, I was a little worried. My first thought was, what a pain in the neck. Can't we just buy baby food? Dr. Joffee gave us a list of foods for Blake to start eating at 4 months old. I initially took that list to the store to find the baby food, pre-made, like normal. I was shocked to only find 2 of the foods on the list. So I bought the carrots and squash and thought this is good for now...

Then Blake literally started to turn an orangish/yellow and I knew it was time to attempt making home made baby food so he could get some other colors in his diet...

To my surprise, I really enjoyed making his food. Now it's pretty much a weekly tradition and I'm getting much faster at it! It's so nice to know exactly what he is eating and it also helped give me an idea of how much he is eating. I could start to see that one bunch of cauliflower makes about 4 jars of baby food...which is GREAT! It makes me feel good to know he is eating healthy, yummy veggies. Zucchini, squash, carrots, cauliflower and broccoli create quite an odor in our kitchen on cooking day, but it's well worth it!

All of this...

Fits into these two jars!

My saving grace...ear plugs!

The next food to master is beef, chicken and tilapia....I gave beef a shot and it turned out well, but Blake is still trying to get used to the texture.