Some fresh vegetable I would cook, puree with alittle breast milk or formula, freeze in ice cube tray, then pop out and keep in freezer in a freezer bag. Anyone else do this?

I did when the boys were babies! It was so easy and I am sure I saved lots of money. Not to mention what great eaters they are now when it comes to fruits and veggies.

I do!

I also have a bunch of homemade baby food "recipes" that I would email anyone who is interested. Just give me a pm!

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"It's time to move from what we can do, to what we must do, to what we will do." ~Hillary Clinton

I have a 7 month old and I do cook for her - I do not freeze however - they ask you not to cook and store carrots for long periods because of nitrates, I guess.

I generally add all vegetables- carrots, green beans, peas, cauliflower and cook them and puree them and add it to rice cereal and serve DD. I also plan on cooking broccoli and spinach for her.

Cynth

Yep. I made all of dd's and now I'm making ds's. It's so much healthier, tastier, and cheaper. Also, you don't get much variety in jarred food so I love being able to give my kids avocado, mango, etc. Btw, the book Super Baby Food is awesome for anyone wanting some guidance for making baby food.

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Jennifer
dd Sarah 1/4/02
ds Brady 1/15/07

Yup. Did it for both boys and will do it for any future children I have too.

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Stephanie
Mom to: Caleb (8/03), Ian (9/05), & Lucas (11/08)

Me too. I kept it pretty simple. I did use some jarred stuff that I bought on sale. I pretty much just mashed whatever veggies we were eating that night for dinner for DS and I'd puree some fruit for breakfast w/ his rice cereal. I did freeze some pureed peaches and bananas in ice cube trays.

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Blessed beyond measure

I did it for DS and highly recommend it. I did veges, fruits, grains and meat. I froze mine in the ice cube trays and then labeled the bags. As he got older I mixed and matched the various stuff (ie. a cube each of apples and pears together) for different tastes. I bought jar food also but only to test to see if he would eat something before I went to the trouble of steaming, pureeing and freezing it all.

He went on a binge of not eating fruit for awhile now that he picks up his food with his fingers so I continued to buy jarred fruit bc that was the only way he would eat it. I also keep a few containers of it in my car as a just in case when we are out and about and decide to stop to eat. He is a picky eater atm but I know he'll at least eat the jar food if he doesn't like anything on the menu.