I have to give credit where credit is due. A lot of the recipes I have cooked for Caeden come from these two books:
The Baby and Toddler Cookbook
Cooking for Baby
I highly recommend both. The recipes are broken down into age groups. The early chapters of both are similar given baby's need for finely pureed meals (there's only so much variety you can offer a 6 month old), but later chapters offer a large range of recipes. The Baby and Toddler Cookbook has more recipes for the older baby/ toddler/ child than Cooking for Baby. Both are available at Williams Sonoma.
My favorite baby food-making "gadget" is the Beaba Babycook (also available at Williams Sonoma). Yes, I realize you can accomplish all you need to accomplish with a large sauce pan and a steamer basket as well, but this thing is awesome! It steams,purees AND reheats your frozen food. I don't know. To each his own, but I find it a whole lot easier to use than fumbling around in the cabinets for the right size pan and the steamer basket, then the food processor. Call me lazy if you want. Then having to clean all of that! Blach! The babycook is super easy to clean too AND it's dishwasher-safe. Perfect!
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I loved using my Babycook! It made it so easy to make my own food. Great blog Jess! I need all the help I can get feeding my fussy toddler :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the info! We have just started cereal but I have been contemplating making baby food for a while. You have inspired me to try it now :)
ReplyDeleteHey Heidi! I thought making my own baby food was going to be really time consuming... BUT, my tip to you would be to start only making 2 things at a time and then freezing it. Before you know it, you'll have a bunch of delicious food ready to go in the freezer AND you won't feel so overwhelmed when first getting into making your own food.
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