Do you plan to feed your baby homemade baby food?  Or, maybe you already do?  Either way, you’ll quickly discover that cooking baby food is easy.  Run down to the farmer’s market and buy whatever fresh, organic produce is priced right.  Cook and puree single foods or mix and match a few for an older baby. 

OK…  But, now you have a quart of sweet potatoes and one teensy tiny baby mouth to feed.   What do you do with all the leftovers?  I know, I know, you freeze that baby food into convenient ounce-sized portions with Fresh Baby’s clever baby food trays.  Since you want to provide a varied diet, your freezer soon becomes packed with a few recipes and baby starts getting tired of your sweet potatoes.  What next?

Organize a Baby Food Swap! 

What a perfect excuse for new moms to get together!  A Baby Food Swap is simple – just ask each mom to bring one large batch of homemade organic baby food either freshly made or frozen.  She can pack it in 2 cup containers or bring it frozen in baby food cubes a lá Fresh Baby for easy sharing.  Just like a cookie swap, each mom will leave with several servings of a variety of recipes. 

Is your group intimidated about making homemade baby food?  You can make the Baby Food Swap a cooking party too.  Ask each mom to bring fresh ingredients for cooking at the party.  Equip yourself with a few good food processors and share the love.  When they see how easy it is to prepare, they’ll be ready to schedule the next Baby Food Swap with finished products (there’s more time for chatting that way).  If you don’t know much about making baby food yourself, checkout Fresh Baby’s “So Easy Baby Food Kit“, which includes an instructional DVD and homemade baby food cookbook, plus those handy dandy baby food trays. 

I only wish I’d heard of this idea when my children were eating baby food.  Oh, the money I could have saved.  And, oh, the fun we would have had!

Related posts:

1. The Difference Between 1st and 2nd Foods
2. at the Seashore
3. Enter to Win an Amber Teething Necklace!
4. Canada Get’s It
5. Baby Carriers – What’s right for me?

Tags: baby food, homemade baby food

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 at 4:25 pm and is filed under Baby & Toddler. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.