Easy homemade baby food
When I first went grocery shopping for my son, I compared the prices of jarred food with frozen vegetables. To my astonishment, the jarred food cost three times what a bag of frozen lima beans cost. The bag constituted four times as much food than the jar.What I’m trying to say is don’t buy jarred food. A jar of baby food costs roughly $.50 at my local grocer. It holds four ounces of food, but is supposed to be given in concert with other jarred food.Therefore, you have to store an opened jar of food, which will go bad in a few days. So, three jars will be opened for one meal, unless you feed your child nothing but blueberry crumble.By contrast, a bag of frozen peas, or a can of peaches cost about $1.29 at my grocery store. The peas can be cooked (then mashed for newborns) and placed in ice cube trays for storage in the freezer. One cube will be enough for a newborn, while two cubes will feed toddlers.Therefore, in an average ice cube tray, you’ll have at least eight meals for the price of 2.5 jars. The same is true for the peaches. This can also be done with potatoes as well as other fruits and vegetables. One minute in the microwave ensures a quick meal.But I didn’t have time to make baby food. I had a job and I was going to school. Little did I realize that I could make the food while I cooked my own dinner. The placing of the veggies in the trays took no time at all. Now, I had single serving vegetables, with no preservatives.If your environmentally conscience, you can be happy that all those jars that you’d buy won’t have to be recycled.We all want what’s best for our kids. Most people and many chemists don’t know what chemicals are in baby food. By buying a sweet potato, cooking it, mashing it and throwing it into your freezer, you know exactly what your child is eating. This also cuts down on possible allergens your child maybe exposed to. Introducing certain chemicals to your child too early in his/her life may cause allergies.The one warning I have has to deal with carrots. The nitrates in carrots maybe too high in both jarred and fresh carrots for children. Buying organic carrots is your only real choice. Unfortunately, anything organic is likely to be costly, so it’s a good idea to make carrots a specialty.In the end, you’re saving money and are in more control of what your child eats. A wise person once told me “If you’re saving money, you’re losing time.” This is the best way to save money without losing too much time.
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