Tips for maiking your own baby food
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You will need the following to begin:
A food processor or a baby food grinder
A steamer. A metal basket steamer is inexpensive and works great. If you have 1 then great but actually what i do is either boil it but it does lose nutrients that way but i generally put a little way in a gallon size Ziploc bag put what ever i am cooking at the time remove all the air and then microwave it. You are steaming it that way also. :)
As many ice cube trays as will fit in your freezer.
Decent freezer bags – you don’t want freezer burn!
Foods that your baby is ready to eat.
The basic steps to make most foods are as follows:
1. Prepare the food - wash and peel (if necessary), then cut into chunks.
2. Steam or boil. In the process of boiling you can loose a lot of nutrients, so try to steam all that you can.
3. Keep all remaining water from the steam/boiling process. You will need this water to thin out the processed food.
4. Throw the cooked food into the processor and just let it process until the food reaches a “puréed” state. Add as much of the leftover water from steaming as is needed. Remember that if you have processed the food while it’s still very hot, it will thicken as it cools.
5. Spoon the food into ice cube trays and freeze.
6. Once frozen, remove the cubes from the trays and put into a freezer bag – label and return to freezer.
A food processor or a baby food grinder
A steamer. A metal basket steamer is inexpensive and works great. If you have 1 then great but actually what i do is either boil it but it does lose nutrients that way but i generally put a little way in a gallon size Ziploc bag put what ever i am cooking at the time remove all the air and then microwave it. You are steaming it that way also. :)
As many ice cube trays as will fit in your freezer.
Decent freezer bags – you don’t want freezer burn!
Foods that your baby is ready to eat.
The basic steps to make most foods are as follows:
1. Prepare the food - wash and peel (if necessary), then cut into chunks.
2. Steam or boil. In the process of boiling you can loose a lot of nutrients, so try to steam all that you can.
3. Keep all remaining water from the steam/boiling process. You will need this water to thin out the processed food.
4. Throw the cooked food into the processor and just let it process until the food reaches a “puréed” state. Add as much of the leftover water from steaming as is needed. Remember that if you have processed the food while it’s still very hot, it will thicken as it cools.
5. Spoon the food into ice cube trays and freeze.
6. Once frozen, remove the cubes from the trays and put into a freezer bag – label and return to freezer.
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