homemade food savings

i don't know if we are doing our math wrong- but you really don't save that much making your own food- maybe like 20 cents we figured out. at least with making your own butternut squash. anybody else figure that too?

 

i don't know if we are doing our math wrong- but you really don't save that much making your own food- maybe like 20 cents we figured out. at least with making your own butternut squash. anybody else figure that too?

 

I haven't figured it out....but was kinda thinking the same! Oh well, I enjoy making it!

 

I save a lot of money on making my own baby food. There are three things though that I do buy because of convenience and cost and those things are squash, sweet potatoes and prunes. Otherwise I buy frozen veggies(peas,carrots,green beans so far) apples(the ones on sale), peaches(only if on sale) and I figure I save myself about seven dollars a week. I will sometimes buy bananas in baby food or buy them on sale. DEpends!!!

 

I made all of my girls' food and I think we saved a lot of money. I think wholesomebabyfood.com has a FAQ somewhere that talks about saving money. You aren't going to save the same amount on each kind of food. I think you save a lot on things like bananas, since they're so cheap.

Plus your baby gets a bigger variety, since you can give them foods that companies like Gerber don't make into babyfood, like mango, papaya, zucchini, avacado, etc.

 

I saved a lot. If each baby goes through just two jars of food a day, that is $1.60-$2.00 a day. Most babies don't go through just two jars though. I could make at least 14 servings each of 4 different kinds of vegetables/fruits for $10. That would last at least 14 days so I'm saving $18 every 2 weeks. If I chose frozen vegetables or vegetables that are in season, I save even more.

As they babies eat more, then we'd save more.

 

I think it depends on what foods we're talking about. Like a pp said with bananas there's a huge savings b/c fresh bananas are so cheap. With something like apples there's not such a big savings since applesauce (no sugar added) is also very cheap.

I factor in the time and effort as well. Bananas are so simple: peel, mash, freeze. Apples are too labor intensive for me, especially since applesauce is so cheap.

I wish there was a cheaper whole milk yogurt. Literallythe only one in the stores around here is the individual containers of YoBaby and that stuff is expensive! I was hoping to buy a big container and mix in my own fruit for cheap snacks an breakfasts (mine don't really care for cereal but godbble up yogurt). Oh well.

 

can't you use just regular yogurt?

 

I wish there was another whole milk yogurt too! With my first dd, I even looked into making my own, but it seemed difficult. At our Kroger, it's $3.49 for 6!!!! That's insane, but I pay b/c my girls LOVE it.

 

My pedi told me I didn't need to worry about buying baby yogurt. She said I could use any and that I could buy the plain and mix w/ my own fruit. The boys love it!

 

I think that savings are pretty obvious. If you think of 1 4oz jar of organic butternut squash as of $1 and 1 whole organic squash that makes about 15 of these jars as of $2 - the savings are pretty significant.

 

Everything I've read says that babies need the fat and to only use whole milk yogurt. All my store has is fat free or low fat. Which makes sense, most ppl don't want all that fat.

Maybe I'll look into making my own yogurt! I've heard it isn't that hard....

 

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Originally posted by ksls:
Everything I've read says that babies need the fat and to only use whole milk yogurt. All my store has is fat free or low fat. Which makes sense, most ppl don't want all that fat.

Maybe I'll look into making my own yogurt! I've heard it isn't that hard....

This is what I've heard - babies need all that fat for the brain development and good growth.