Baby Food-Carrots

I'm a fan of making your own baby food. I do have a stash of jarred food in my storage room for convenience, but when I can, I like to make my own baby food for my kiddos. When Dallin was a baby, I did it mostly from scratch. I'd slice carrots and put them in my steaming basket. Or sweet potatoes. I even made applesauce a couple times (tip: don't make apple sauce unless you have an over abundance of apples or unless you just really want to try it. It's cheaper just to buy it, and it saves time and energy.) With Ruby and Pieter, I've figured out that using canned veggies is a great way to quickly make baby food. I found canned carrots for $.25 a can a walmart a while back and totally stocked up. So for lunch today, Pieter had carrots.

The nice thing about making your own baby food is that you can control what goes in it and do portion control well. Carrots are good mixed with apples or potatoes, or any other flavor you think could go well. To make it go even farther, I'll make baby cereal then mix in the solid food.

P.S. It took me about 1 minute to grab the can, the immersion blender, and puree it up.