Any Recommendations For Preparing Baby Food?

Hello! I've been looking at Mothercare online (its a British store) as my mother in law will be coming in May and she wants to bring stuff over for the girls.

I saw this "Beaba Babycook Machine"
http://www.mothercare.com/gp/product/B000J...41&mcb=core
and wondered if it was any good or if there was something better to get or even if I should not bother to have?

TIA!

 

I made the majority of my baby food for all my kids. I flew by the seat of my pants with my oldest, but someone gave me the "Super Babyfoods" book with the twins & I loved it. Like all books, take with a grain of salt. I have a small Kitchen Aid food processor( the larger one would have been nice, but I made it work), sometimes I used my blender, them I would freeze the portions in a mini-muffin tray. Once they were frozen, I'd pop them out & store in a freezer bag. I just dedicated 1-2 hours each week to make 1 food. If you rotate what you make each week, it gives you a great variety & nice portions to just pull out & warm.

Good Luck!!

 

thanks so much!

 

Have you seen my sticky in the FY, named Feeding Guide and Growth milestones? It has a few different links to sites about making baby food...

Here is a link to over there...

http://twinstuff.invisionzone.com/forum/in...showtopic=17397

 

I used a regular vegetable steamer, a blender, and occasionally a sieve. I never felt the need for anything more. The time they ate purees was so short (6.5-9.5 months) that I would have felt I'd wasted my money buying a special piece of equipment.

 

I just cooked anything I wanted to make in a stockpot then blended with a hand immersion blender. I thought that was easier than trying to pour from the pot to the blender. Then I ladeled into ice cube trays and when it was frozen I put it into freezer baggies. When they were really little, one cube was a perfect serving size. Two cubes when they were older.

 

I just cooked and used a blender to make food, then froze it in ice cube trays. A food processor would have been nice, but like someone else said they don't eat pureed food for too long. Also I used a little food chopper when we were trying to switch to table food. It was great to just toss in what we were eating and chop it up. My guys loved it.

 

Someone here recommended this So Easy Baby Food Kit. And, it is great. It includes a video, cookbook, and chart for when to start introducing these foods. It took a lot of the guessing work out of the process for me. And, made it easy. HTH.

BTW, I am done with mine. If you are interested in it, I plan on selling it. Just a thought.

 

And frozen is easier and sometimes healthier than fresh (and canned EWWWWWW) B)

 

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Hello! I've been looking at Mothercare online (its a British store) as my mother in law will be coming in May and she wants to bring stuff over for the girls.

I saw this "Beaba Babycook Machine"
http://www.mothercare.com/gp/product/B000J...41&mcb=core
and wondered if it was any good or if there was something better to get or even if I should not bother to have?

TIA!


Honestly, I wouldn't even bother getting something like that. I used a baby food mill for a while, which was fine, but it only made very small batches at a time. After trying a couple other methods, I tried my blender. It was the best for making baby food. I could make huge batches at once, and it poured nicely into baby food jars (where other methods were very messy). Plus, you very well may already have one.

I definitely recommend making your own food if you have the time. I found it made it possible to make organic baby food I probably couldn't afford premade as often... and the twins got lots of foods I never see in baby food jars (they loved a pumpkin banana mix I made, got avocado, etc.).