How to Buy Homemade Baby Food Supplies

Making homemade baby food instead of buying commercially-jarred food for your baby is a much healthier and cheaper way to feed your little one. Very few supplies are needed, and once you have them in stock, you can whip up a batch of homemade food your baby will love in no time flat.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Blender or food processor
• Ice cube trays
• Freezer bags
• Colander
• Steamer basket
• Masher
• Permanent marker
• Spatula
• Large pot

1. Purchase a high-quality blender or food processor. If you plan on making baby food in large batches for freezing, you're going to use this appliance quite a bit, so make sure it's a dependable brand name.
2. Buy a large pot, a steamer basket for steaming fruits and vegetables, and a colander for holding and draining the cooked food. You will use these supplies often, so ensure the products you purchase are durable.
3. Find a spatula to scoop homemade baby food out of the food processor or blender and into the ice cube trays for freezing.
4. Obtain a masher for mashing fruits and vegetables into chunkier pieces once your baby is old enough to move beyond pureed food.
5. Locate ice cube trays with lids. Freezing homemade baby food in ice cube trays allows you to defrost the perfect baby-sized portion for your little one.
6. Get some freezer bags for storing the food once it's frozen in the ice cube trays, and a permanent marker, which you'll use to label the bags with the name of the baby food inside, along with the date you froze it.

Tips & Warnings

• Use a food processor rather than a blender for making batches of thicker pureed food, as you can scoop it out of the bottom of a food processor easier than you can a blender.
• When pureeing baby food in a food processor or blender, do not over stuff the appliance or the food will not puree smoothly. Fill the appliance about halfway full to achieve the best outcome.