Baby food - bought or home made?

Hello...my children are all grown now but I can tell you what I did,,"back then" I believed that natural food was best and also less expensive and we did not have a lot of money when my first was born. When it was time for vegetables, and not all children are the same, some will object if they just arent ready, I cooked my own such as carrots squash etc, and i mashed and poured it into ice cube trays and froze it. Each cube was a meal, I just had to pop it out and warm it up

My baby has feeding issues due to a medical issues. Even at 18 months his foods are a bit thicker then the jarred foods. We make his to him. With there being so many choices out there you can do good jarred food. I did a mix for all my kids. I made some and froze it in ice cube trays covered with plastic. I also bought jarred for things I couldn't make at home or for travel. You can even make your table foods into food for baby once they reach a certain point.

I did a bit of both, it depended on the food. It's certainly easier to just buy it, but cheaper to make it yourself, so for me it depended on what the food was and if I had the energy to do it myself. Something like bananas are so easy, you just mash them with a potato masher, and maybe add some formula, milk, or even water just to smooth it out a little to make it easier to eat and mash. At home I did corn, peas, bananas, carrots, pears, and a few other things, I forget now. Pretty much whatever was left over after feeding the rest of the family, I'd throw it in the blender with some liquid until it was the right consistancy for the baby to eat.

Yes, home made foods are always better for your baby and most ideal. If you have time to make them it would be to your babies advantage. I had my kids mixed with bought and hoe made since I have work and am really busy when they were babies. I usually mix some fruits and vegetables in their porridge or baby cereals. It's a good thing my kids were not choosy with foods.

we always had the plans on making our own baby food. we just never had enough time to get through with it. we always bought baby food and she never had any issues with it. we sometimes got the organic bottles but we never really paid attention to that, we just kind of picked it up. our doctor said that there was nothing wrong with buying the bottles or making our own that they didn't have a preference it was all up to us.

It´s better for the first months for the baby to eat processed-baby intended- food, later like 6 months and on you can think on giving homemade food.

When my baby started eating, I first introduced her those bottled foods (fruits & vegetables), then gave her cereals sold by box. I also gave her homemade food like thinly ground rice and mongo which I cooked. It's really nutritious.

I decided with my daughter that it just wasn't worth the cost of the baby food in jars. I did buy her some in the very beginning, like when they first start trying the fruits and veggies like peas and pears - but mostly only because they don't eat a whole lot of it and it wasn't a major expense. By the time she was about 6 months old though I pretty much just mushed up whatever we were eating. A little food processor is wonderful if you don't mind having to clean it - just take whatever you are eating/cooking for yourself and stick it in there. Just make sure you do the whole "introduce one food at a time thing" in the beginning if allergies are a concern, but after that the sky's pretty much the limit on what they can eat. Good Luck!

my son is already three years old. the day he started to eat my wife is the one making the food he will be eating. she cook rice but put a lot of water so it will be soupy. she will put bits of chicken or bits of meat while it is boiling. when it is cooked she will cool it down and blend it with the blender. it will all be mashed up. sometimes she boils potatoes and carrots and blend it too. she puts it inside the freezer and consumes it for a week. that is what she do.

When our children were babies over 40 years ago, they ate some canned baby food but not much. Even at 10 to 25 cents a jar, we couldn't afford it. I didn't have a food processor, for the same reason. They ate a lot of mashed potatoes and gravy. I remember putting green beans and other vegetables through a strainer, one that was made with screen wire. I'd take a spoon to mash the food through the wire. I did buy baby cereal. Sometimes I'd take meat juices and/or the water from vegetables and add cereal. As soon as they had teeth, they were on table food. Our daughter, the second child, ate a lot of Vienna Sausages. They did get supplemental vitamins until they were 4 or 5. My mother told me that her mother would chew the food for her babies, take it out of her mouth and feed it to the baby. This was in the period of 1900 to about 1920. That method did not appeal to either my mother or me.

well, when i was young there were not such baby food to buy, and my mom made me a lot of delicious meals. My mom was with the meal, and my dad was giving me that meal, to eat. And as i was so young, i was doing something nice, and dad thought that i want more. And he was giving me to eat a lot. My mom said to him: don`t gve him that much! it`s gonna blow up! . My dad always said that i have a big apetit and he was always giving me a lot of baby food.Nowadays, it`s easier to buy that , because maybe it has more vitamins that what we`ll give to our baby, but sometimes, baby food it`s not so healthy when you buy it..

I highly suggest to get homemade baby food. After the china milk tainted with poison . I don't trust mass produce baby food anymore . Hence I prefer to make my own baby food.

I have 3 children. None of them would touch the jars of baby food. Our doctor said that was fine, we went and purchase a food grinder (Walmart, around $8.00 or so) and what ever we had for dinner so did the babies. That way they learned to eat all of the veggies, and meat to. Meat can be kinda tricky with the food grinder, but we just put a little bit of everything we were having for dinner in, and ground it all together. We use frozen veggie, not canned so that the kids won't get all of the un-needed salt in the diet. Because of this, our kids for the most part eat most all veggies. Our 8 year old LOVES lima beans, black beans, coliflower, broccoli. You name it, they eat it. We did the same with the fruits. Just a side note though, don't put a bannana through it. We learned the hard way, it doesn't come so good.

I started feeding my Daughter Earths Best baby food about 6 months or so. I started with veggies first as I didn't want her to get to used to only sweet things. Our pediatrician said that we can mash up potatos or any other foods we like to the cosistancy of baby food but that the jar baby food is fine too. I think as long as you aren't giving him baby jar foods that are really high in sodium like mac n cheese or stuff like that he'll be fine. I think buying food is fine, its one less thing to have to worry about doing but if you want to make the baby food go for it. I know being a first time parent you want everything to be perfect and be the best mother but overall some times you need to give yourself a break. If you have time to mash something up that you guys are having for dinner then great but if you don't than giving jar food is just as good. One my daughter got used to a variety of foods I just made sure to give her equal amounts of everything. One thing to watch is giving too many orange or yellow foods as it gives them a little orange glow around the nose area. No biggy its normal but if your like me it would just bug you!!! Sounds like your son is in good hands :)

I would say that in this world of unknowns, with less than honest manufacturing companies it might be worth your while to use a food processor and make your own baby food. Organic would be like your grandmother raised. Straight out of the garden to the table. It's hard to trust when a label says organic if it really is or not. And if it is - what about the neighbors pesticides spraying over on the field or the run off water from other fields. Some things make you wonder.

As you know, my daughter isn't to that stage yet, but this is definetely something that we've discussed for the near future. We always plant a large garden, and this year we will most definetely be planting an even larger one. I plan to plant as much of a variety of vegetables that I can, so that we can jar or freeze them for the later use for her baby food. I can have the comfort of knowing that there are no added chemicals or generic fertilizers used in her food. As far as fruits go, we only have one peach tree and two cherry trees, so most of her fruits will have to be bought from the store.

It is always better to give thebaby the natural fresh food .processed food contasis preservatives which may do some harm .it is not that baby foods are unsafe but bit is advisible to give fresh and natural foods made by you yourself

I have four children and they all had jarred baby food. I am expecting the fifth one soon and plan to make my own baby food this time. I just wonder, short of growing it oneself, how do you know if there are pesticides or not on the fresh fruits and veggies we buy. My kids liked some things and refused some. I offered again and again. With my last one he wasn't fond of fruits ever and as he got older I reached for easy finger foods more often and he lost those good vegetable eating habits. we have been trying to sway him back. One piece of vegetable or one bite each night at dinner. Slow going, but promising. You'll figure out which choice works best for you.