Today's Tip Tuesday will be for all mothers who make their own baby food.
One of the most rewarding feelings is making your own baby food for your child. You can make sure that your baby is truly getting organic food, free from all those preservatives and artificial flavors. Also the best part is that it's cheaper, and I mean a lot cheaper. There are a lot of great products out there that help with this process. One of the first that comes to most minds is probably the Baby Bullet. But if you are like me, spending all that money for something you will use less than a year can seem to be a bit of a waste. Many of the foods my daughter eats, I am able to make with a hand mixer that we have had in my house for years. The food comes out the same consistency and no need for an expensive purchase. What about storage? Well here is my tip, use baby food containers! Seems backwards right? Why would you have those if you are making homemade food? Well in the beginning stages of eating (4-6 months) babies need a really smooth, almost watery, consistency Their little throats cannot swallow chunks. While most food is able to be pureed quite well, there are certain foods that no matter what will just always be a bit clumpy or stringy. One of the foods we could not make my daughter in these beginning stages were green beens. So for the first two months we would just buy the organic baby food version from Gerber. We washed out the containers and would save them to put her other food in! They work perfectly because you know they are one serving. Down below is an example of what they look like. They run anywhere from 2-2.5 ounces. The reason we didn't use baby jars is that I found that it is hard to get all the food out. The neck of the jar would always get caught with food. With these plastic containers I know that my little one is getting everything. These containers are also great because of the tops. You can bring them with you in your cooler or diaper bag when you are on the go!
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