Making my own baby food

You’ll never guess what I got for Christ­mas — OK, I’ll tell you. As requested, my fam­ily bought me a Baby Bul­let — the baby cousin of the Magic Bul­let. For those of you not famil­iar with the Bul­let, it’s basi­cally a small, easy-to-use blender. The Baby Bul­let comes with a com­plete “make-your-own-baby-food” stor­age sys­tem. It’s cute, cool and convenient.

Now hold on, I know what you’re think­ing. Did I suc­cumb to the “As Seen on TV” adver­tis­ing blitz and pur­chase a prod­uct that isn’t really nec­es­sary? Well, yes. Yes, I did. I real­ize moth­ers for mil­len­nia have been mak­ing their own baby food with­out the assis­tance of a mini-blender and minia­ture stor­age cups com­plete with “date-made” dials and smi­ley faces. No, I ratio­nally do know that I could be mak­ing my own baby food in my own adult-sized blender or even mash­ing it up myself.

But, I have to con­fess, the quick and con­ve­nient fea­tures of this prod­uct reeled me in. I really love mak­ing Sammy’s food with it. It’s so fun. We’ve already tried sweet pota­toes, bananas, apple­sauce, avo­ca­does and next up on the menu is squash. For­tu­nately, Sam seems to enjoy what­ever I set before him, so feed­ing time is a real pleasure.

In a mat­ter of 10 to 15 min­utes I can puree an apple and fill about 5 jars for the refrig­er­a­tor and then puree a squash and fill about as many for the freezer and — Badd­a­Boom, Badd­a­Bing — food for a week at only pen­nies a serving.

You’ll have to for­give my excite­ment. I fed my three other babies pri­mar­ily from the store-bought lit­tle jars so this is a new adven­ture for me. For those of you who have been doing this for years, kudos! And if you’d like to try it, con­sider the Bul­let (which for­tu­nately we found at a VERY good sale price). How­ever, I’ll be the first to admit you can do it with­out such a specially-marketed prod­uct. My hus­band always says I’m a sucker for pack­ag­ing and I sup­pose that’s true! But in my defense, this is one prod­uct that moti­vated me to make a good choice for Sammy’s health and the environment.

Tues­day Trip­pier lives in Delaware, is a writer and mother of four with a spe­cial inter­est in green living.

Posted by Tuesday Trippier on Jan 17 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Comments can be made below.