Baby food tips

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Do you have a tip for parents that helps save time or money, or a favorite baby food recipe? Here's mine: My daughter is just starting out on baby foods, and since she only eats 'real food' once a day if that, I discovered an easy way to save those leftovers. I take the jar of baby food, and spoon out 'plops' of food onto a plate. Each plop is maybe a teaspoon or so. Then after I fill the plate - I pop it in the freezer and let it freeze. Take the plate out of the freezer, pop the plops off and put them in a plastic baggie which I label with the flavor. Then throw that in a freezer bag and put it in the freezer. This prevents getting germies in the jar of food (they say never to save food after you feed a baby from the jar), or if we go a few days between eating 'real food', I know it wont go bad. Plus we can keep several different flavors frozen so she can have a variety of foods without wasting anything. To use the food - I fill one of those big wide coffe mugs with hot water and place how ever many plops I want to warm up in a baby bowl and set that on the coffee cup. I'm sure you could just fill a bowl with hot water and place a smaller bowl in it as well. I've also placed the food plops in a glass and set that into the mug. Or microwave them for about 20 seconds for 12 plops - then 5 seconds more at a time until most are melted - stir until the rest melt. (I dont use the microwave very often - too many unknowns LOL) Right now we have peas, carrots and sweet potatoes in the freezer!