Any ideas for making babyfood??

Hi, I think it is a very good idea to want to prepare yourself your baby's food, because I really think it is healthier. Here is what I did for my daughter : first, instead of oiling I would steam the vegetable. I think it keeps more the original taste plus it keep more of the vitamins ( they tend to pass into the water when you boil ), then i would blend it real fine and add just a tiny weenie little bitty butter (real butter if possible ). I would advise against adding salt since babies don't digest salt very well. I hope it can help, and don't give up, your baby is worth it! Good luck

I think its probably the texture the baby likes more than the taste. Bottled baby food is smooth while homemade food contains fibre and lumps. Don'tworry, once the baby gets enough variety, he will prefer homemade, especially if you feed him from your plate.I did this with my kids, and they all loved food, as do my grand children. In fact, by 9 months, my youngest who is only 15 months was throwing the jarred food on the floor, or spitting it at us.

It's so long since I made babyfood that I'm not sure what to recommend, but what about some thick home made soups? Especially potato and leek with small amount of onion and finely blended. This I find is quite sweet. How about blending a small amount of stew and trying that? I think you just have to keep trying with different foods until you find the things he likes. I know that's what I did with my second child. With the first I used mainly jars, but I didn't find that she was fussy with food afterwards.

I always made my own baby food when my children were small. I'm not sure how you're making it, but I will tell you what I did. I would boil the vegetables and then put them through the blender. If I found they were too thick, then I would use some of the water from boiling them to thin it out some. None of my kids ever really like mashed potatoes, but they loved carrots, squash, sweet potatoes and many other things. Another helpful little tip is if you need to make some in advance for whatever reason, if you freeze it in ice cube trays it works great. A couple of cubes is a serving, lol, depending of course on how much your baby eats. Good luck and congrats on the baby.

I made everything my little guy ate, except for the infant cereal. I have a really powerful blender so I would just take whatever veggies or fruits that we were introducing next and puree them, freezing them in ice cube trays and heat them up when needed. I found that the store bought stuff had too much sugar, salt, etc. No wonder babies like it! Making baby food yourself means you can control the amount of fat, spice, salt and sugar.

From experience, the best ticket is trial and error. Well error is the wrong word because, you should revisit unliked foods. Babies change their minds so much. They will like stuff that would think they wouldn't. The worst thing a parent could do is not share a food with a child becaude they don't like it. Try them all and remember they will change. Above all, refrain from the junky stuff, if you don't introduce it they won't miss it. Trust me, a huge regret here.

hi did you taste both your and market brought. find out if the taste is different what is mixing in your dish if there is no difference then better cook yourself and serve in market brough jar. both of you will be happy. home food is always best for babies

we never fed my baby sister babyfood at 6 monthes ...at around 9 monthes when she could start standing at the table (low to the ground asian table ) we sit on the floor in japan so she could hold onto the table and see our plates and she use to just grab handfuls of rice and eat it herself ,or bananna or tofu or soft foods .she never had baby food and she never was spoonfed she drank milk then she went to solid food when she could take some off the plates eventually she could sit in a small high chair and was given a bowl of rice an other assorted soft foods and a spoon and she used her fingers for a while then eventually playing with spoon to feeding herslef .... so its done differently in other countries and now she is 3 and eats just like the rest of us with spoon ,fork or chopsticks (yes chopsticks at 3)we never feed her baby food they dont need it

How about this: Boil a little rice and brocolli. Then fry a little anchovy fish. Mash the rice with the brocolli or you can just use the mixer. Then pound the anchovy until it become powder. Pour the powder onto the mixture of rice and brocolli. And you can now feed your child.

Here is some good information on this suject, http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/ This should help you with your question.

I agree that it's probably not the taste of food, but the texture. Bottled baby food has a smoother consistency, therefore it is easier for them to just swallow and swallow. For my 2-year old daughter, when she started eating solids, I gave her homemade food but there were times I'd feed her bottled baby food. She got so used to the consistency of bottled baby foods, that whenever I'd give her homemade food afterwards, she wouldn't take it, or she would take it, but I had to put it in a blender and achieve the same consistency as the ones in bottled baby foods. It's hard to get a kid used to eating smooth consistency foods because they get used to it so much to the point that it's hard to give her foods that have meat chunks and they tend to be lazy to chew. For other baby food recipes, you may refer to www.wholesomebabyfood.com

Hello there. You can try and mash up some bananas. Little ones seems to love that. Also you can mask up some pears, peaches, and some apples without the skin on it. My daughter didn't really care for vegetables till she got older but you also try to mash up some other kinds of vegetables.

It is always best that we prepare these baby foods. They may not be as palatable to your child as the one available in jars, but do not fall for them. What is important is you get your child to eat natural food rather than the processed ones. Let your dhild have a taste of these natural foods one after the other. He does not have to take plenty of it. That he made a small bite at a time is fine. We tend to rush things, no good, remember the child is yet being introduced to an activity which is something new to him.

I would think that store bought food has added sugars to make the food more palatable. They also add tapioca to enhance texture. Keep feeding your baby the fresh food you are making --it's better for him/her, less preservatives, more vitamins and if they are hungry and it's all that's being served, they'll like it just fine.

I actually used my juicer on soft fruits and veggies(bananas and such)It makes them very smooth. For everything else I used a blender and made sure that all was smooth. I loved making my own baby food. Atleast then I knew what was really going into their mouths!

I am sorry you are having problems. The first foods my daughter got was mashed potatoes off my plate. She also got a little speghetti sauce. The only thing she really liked in the jars was the sweet potatoes and I am still fixing sweet potatoes for her now that she is sixteen. Maybe the texture is too rough. Try mashing it a little more. My kid wanted what ever I had and she still does.

Hi, I have always made my own babyfood. Banana's at 6 months is a very good option, as is winter squash and sweet potatoe. The bananna, I just mash real good and serve. The vegtables, I put in a food processor and add water. Then I freeze them in ice cube trays and keep in a ziplock bag until I need them. It could be that they are a little strong in taste, try adding a scoop of powdered formula to it, that will tame it down a bit. Good luck, and don't give in to the store bought stuff. Maybe your baby is just not ready.

I agree with cooking stuff and mashing it up and freezing in ice cube trays. For DS, we did sweet potatoes, carrots, peas, peaches, apples (or jarred applesauce with no sugar added), avacado, pears, bananas. And then as he got older, added baby pastina, rice, green beans, broccoli, meat (mixed some milk/water into the puree), etc. Once you're ok without allergy problems, you can start making regular dishes. DS liked spaghetti, chicken paprikash, steak & mushrooms, chicken noodle soup without broth, etc. Now he eats whatever we eat. He's 13 months.

I think the other poster was probably right, it's more the texture than anything. I would say buy canned things like pees and carrots and sweet potatoes etc and put them in your blender until they're pulverized to an extremely smooth blend. If that's what you've already tried, try boiling them on the stove for a long time before you blend them so they will be even more soft. Also, yogurt and oatmeal are easily digestable things that babies seem to like and yogurt at least is really smooth. Good luck!

My daughter loved all my homemade babyfood and I learned that if she wouldn't eat something then I would add something naturally sweet to give the food more taste. Example: Squash....she didn't really like this by itself. So I added enough applesauce to it to make it a little runnier and sweeter. The trick worked. I also added formula to it to make it creamier but not sweeter. Good luck and let me know if you want recipes.