It sounds so appealing to make your own homemade organic baby food. I've known, even before I was pregnant, that I wanted to do this. Vivi's been eating baby food now for about 6 weeks and I've just been buying the Earth's Best Organic baby food, which isn't exactly cheap. The small jars are about 59 cents and the bigger ones are about 79 cents. So, we headed to Whole Foods the other day and bought organic zucchini, pears, apples, carrots, sweet potatoes, squash, peas, and brown rice. I ended up spending about $35 dollars on these items, so I'm still not sure if it's more economical or not. I guess we'll see with the quantity that these items make. Thanks to some good friends, they bought us the Beaba baby food maker as a baby gift. It looks so cool. I will say, though, that I feel the instructions are lacking. It's obviously a foreign company and you can tell that a foreigner wrote the directions and English perhaps is not their first language. For example, tell me if you can figure this one out, "Place the mixing cover on the jug horizontally and ensure that it is lying on the six lugs inside the jug so that it does not slip down when mixing." Oh, and they spell flavor, f-l-a-v-o-u-r. There aren't any recipes either, so I had to research for myself online. I found a pretty good website called www.wholesomebabyfood.com. This has been very helpful so far. So...tonight I've made pears and the zucchini are cooking now while I'm typing. I now know that I won't be making all of it tonight...it's almost my bedtime. It's a good thing I'm not working this summer, because this will be a good project for me when Vivi naps. I will keep you posted on how it turns out, if it's worth it financially/time wise, and if the little bambina actually eats it! :)Till then....
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