Food for Baby

One day, about a week ago, Tsoli would not stop eating and I wasn't able to make enough milk for her so I had to run out to the store to buy her some formula.  That was a sad day because (a) I did not want to spend that money and (b) I took it personally for about five minutes that I didn't have enough milk for her.  You know?  It was like I did something wrong.  Not the case.  It didn't take me long to let go of that one because however it happened, the child had to eat.  So I went to the store and bought her FullCircle Organic Formula.  It looks like this...

 There is no special reason for me buying this kind

other than it was the only formula that I saw that said "organic."  I think that's a good enough reason.  Too bad it's expensive as H-E-Double hockey sticks.  

So I bought one can and took it back and forth between home and school (I'm still breastfeeding but sometimes we need some supplementing) but one day I forgot to bring her formula home.  And guess what???  I ran out of milk.  PERFECT!  So I fed Tsoli some rice cereal before school or she would be starving.  I told her teachers the situation when I dropped her off afterward just so they were aware and when I picked her up it read on her sheet the following..."Breakfast: Apples and rice cereal."  My first thought was that they didn't ask me if it was okay to give her that and my second thought was my sweet little baby is old enough for such things.  She was JUST born!  That's beside the point of this post.  Let me walk you through the process for how I made baby food.  (public service announcement: I don't plan on giving her all this food for a long time.  Do not fear.  She will only have apples and rice cereal periodically over the next few weeks just to get her used to eating.  That way when it's time for serious solid food eating, she will be somewhat acclimated).  

Choose desired foodage. I made quite a bit of food because I had time to do it and I didn't know if that would ever happen again.  I decided to go with apples, peas, sweet potatoes, pears, carrots and bananas. 

 Peel and steam food if needed.  FYI, you don't need to peel peas and you don't need to steam bananas.  Ya know.

Next, puree said food until it's the consistency that right for the child.  The way to make this happen is to add as many ounces of water as the number of fruit of veggie.  This doesn't work for peas or carrots so you just gotta feel it out.  Of course, Tsoli is stage 1 so her food will be super smooth.

Put the pureed food into an ice tray, about a teaspoon per cube.

Carrots & Peas

Then, ya freeze and separate the food into little baggies or containers and there you have it!  

Sweet Potatoes

 Baggie

Here is the cost break down for home made food vs. store bought baby food.

From Wal-Mart, you would pay 9$ for this eight pack of bananas.

I went to Sam's and bought bananas, 6 for $1.70 something cents and made approximately 32 servings.  And this one has no preservatives...Just saying.  

Now, I do understand that like millions of babies eat store bought baby food and don't turn out menaces to society.  Either way is cool but I like this way best!  Woo Hoo!