baby food

Have you ever made homemade babyfood? Also if you can, Compare it to store bought please. I'd like to learn how to make it.

Re: baby food

I have made my own and actually love doing it! I take some time on my days off to do it, and I get days if not weeks worth from a few pieces of fruit or veggies.

Gerber: $0.52 per jar or $1.06 per 2 pack (stage 2) Walmart
Del Monte : $0.43 per jar (Walmart)
Beech Nut: 5 for $2.00 ($0.40 each jar) supermarket

buying: bananas :$0.45 cent a lb, I give her half of one at a time...mush up with a fork till it gets pretty liquidy.

sweet potatoes :$0.39 a lb and I get 1 1/4 lb and it gives me 2 ice cube trays worth.

bag of fresh frozen peas $ carrots....I think it was close to $2 for the bag, but half the bag gave me one full ice cube tray

It's SO worth doing it yourself.

I steam them in my rice cooker w/ the steamer tray and also in a pot of lightly boiling water on the stove w/ a steamer basket (I do 2 things at once). Let it cool, mash with a potato masher or fork (or you can use a Braun hand blender or baby food processor made by DEX (at BRU or online) or a blender or regular food processor). Put in ice cube trays, put glad press n seal for freezer over it, then put cubes in freezer ziplocs or plasticware (Gladware, tupperware, etc).