Making Your Own Baby Food

"Have you seen the Super Baby Food cookbook?", I asked DG yesterday. "I can't find it anywhere." "Oh yeah, I've seen it", he says. "It's in the bathroom." You heard it here ladies and gentlemen, good enough to be toilet reading.

I'm pretty excited about all the baby food I've been making. The colorful cubes are so pretty that I had to line them up for a photo op. From left to right there is sweet potato, squash, peas, oatmeal, summer squash, green beans and prunes. I've stopped feeding her carrots, bananas and rice as those are apparently constipating. But these are so easy to make I'm not sure why anyone would buy baby food. Though I definitely have a few jars on hand for traveling. But even when we were on the go all week-end, I'd pop a few cubes in a small tupperware or empty baby jar and off we would go.

To make any of the food, first you steam or microwave the veggies for a few minutes, then you blend them up adding water to get to the consistency you desire. I love using my magic bullet because it is small and just the perfect size. I fill the ice cube trays and freeze them overnight and then pop them into baggies the next day.

Hadley is now eating three meals a day. In the mornings she will usually eat oatmeal or pearled barley (blend 1/4C dry in the blender until a powder consistency and then cook with 1C water for 10 minutes). I mix this with pears, mangos, plums or prunes. At noon she will have asparagus, green beans or peas, and then for dinner her favorite sweet potatoes or summer squash. Though as always she will keep her mouth shut and let the food touch her lip to taste it before she decides if it is something that she has pre-approved.