I find it funny that Levi and I ate a whole pound cake
covered in chocolate the other night but I will only feed Aubin organic veggies. It
kinda makes you think and reevaluate your own health---if it is what I want her
body to have, why wouldn't I want my own to have it too?? At least she will be healthy!!
Either way, I have been a Pinterest queen lately and found
a few great pins on how to make baby food. Labor Day was a perfect weekend for
me to get my Paula Dean on because Levi was out of town and I could make a mess
in the kitchen and not feel bad. Aubin and I did our typical Saturday target
grocery shopping but this time she picked out all the veggies she could handle.
The basic recipe is cut everything up, toss it in the
steamer and then ninja blend it to smithereens with some water until desired
consistency. Once I had all the purées made, I put them in ice cube trays and
froze them. The rest of the food was put into bags and labeled for when we run
low on this haul.
I was super impressed with the amount of cash flow I spent vs the amount of food I made. Each ice cube is ~2 oz of food. She will usually eat 1-2 of the at a sitting. The Organic Beechnut baby food that I was initially buying her was $1.00 for a 4oz jar---IF you get them on sale. So if you just count up the ice cube trays, I made 35.5 "jars" of food!! The quart baggies of frozen puree will give me about 40+ more jars too!!That is a saving of (rounding to 75 jars of food, and them being on sale) $54!! That is some serious cheddar!! [If the jars are full price ($1.39) it would have been a savings of $83.25]
From start to finish it took me exactly 2 hours, with
most of my time being used to watch things steam. I lost my helper along the
way---apparently there was just too much excitement for her.
Do Great Things
Linds
