Husbands!

My very helpful husband last night took the Beaba food processor apart to make sure all parts were clean. We do this everytime to make sure not to transfer bacteria to the baby's food. We thought we lost an important part to the Beaba and went into panic mood. My husband did a quick google search and found out you can order extra parts through this website. http://www.scichild.com/Shop/Beaba-Babycook-Parts

We ended up finding the missing part, but decided to order a few parts anyway. Hey, you never know when he will lose a part again, and we don't want to be without the cooker since I make his foods weekly.

This brings me to preparing Blake's foods. Many of the blogs I have read about baby food including blogs tagged on Pinterest show freezers full of enough baby food to last months. This is not for me. One of the many reasons I decided to make my own baby food is because I want to know what he is eating is FRESH. For me, I don't see the point in going through the trouble of buying him all organic fresh food to just freeze it and then maybe not serve it to him for a whole month. I make his foods every week, enough to send to daycare and for dinner. It isn't the most time saving method, but it's the best for my baby.

I mentioned in a previous blog that I started with carrots for my baby. The order of foods I am introducing go something like this: Orange and Yellows, Greens and then Fruits. You need to serve the same food for three to five days to be able to notice if your child has an allergic reaction to a food before introducing a new veggie or fruit. So far, Blake has had, but not always enjoyed, carrots, butternut squash, sweet potatoes, red beets, green beans and he is in the processes of testing out green squash. Some of the veggies are really thin such as the squash, so I serve it with some cereal mixed in.

I wanted to inform my followers that there are is a high amount of nitrates in carrots, so if you choose to start with carrots do not add the steamed water back in to the carrots for pureeing. Add clean water. Wait until the babies are a little bit older before adding the steamed water back in. Same goes for red beets, although, they are recommended for babies around 8-9 months. I missed that memo!

Also, you can add formula or breastmilk before pureeing the foods, just remember not to refreeze the food if you choose to do this.

I will post recipes that I make for the boy as we get through introducing all his food foods!

Almost forgot, I use Rubbermaid's 4oz containers with freezer tape to label.