Earlier, I demonstrated just how easy it is to prepare homemade baby food using common kitchen items such as knife, pot and fork. Of course, not everything is as soft and easy to mash like squash, so you might have to ditch the fork and consider these tools:
KITCHEN BLENDER – A common kitchen item (yet we didn’t own one until recently, thank you, mother-in-law). I gave it a try, but went back to mashing boiled veggies with fork. The blender did its job, but the vegetables that we use for baby food are soft enough that there was no need to use the blender. Anyway, instead of using the original jar, I used an Oster mini-jar (it’s an accessory, so it’s sold separately). It’s easier to wash due to its size and is made for grinding/pureeing in small quantities, perfect for pureeing baby foods. Just attach it to the base and go.FOOD MILL/BABY FOOD GRINDER – Take a regular hand-turned food mill, replace the stainless parts with pastel colored plastic, resize and use it to puree baby food… Voila! You end up with baby food grinder. Anyway, this looks portable and doesn’t require electricity to function.FOOD PROCESSOR – I can vividly remember my sister-in-law back in the ’90s switching the set of blades and small accessories that came with her food processor. This went on for a couple of weeks, until she got tired of putting together and taking pieces apart. This equipment can chop, grind, puree and grate – it’s perfect. This can meet your grinding… pureeing needs, but to set it up would take extra minutes off your time. Plus, imagine the hassle of washing the accessories and blade afterwards. Not for me.ALL-IN-ONE BABY FOOD MAKER (The First Years BabyPro and Beaba BabyCook – It’s just like any typical food processor but with the ability to steam, defrost and reheat food.
Now you’re down to the last step: deciding how to store your pureed baby food. Read about storing methods here.
DISCLAIMER: Some images used in this blog are not mine unless stated.
