Baby Food: Make Your Own, Save Shekels, Feel Smug.

I figure babies are pretty much the easiest people to cook for, and here's why: They don't know how things are supposed to taste. So you can literally just cook some fruit or veggies, add a little water, blend it up, call it "baby food," and take a bow as Ima of the Year because hey! You love your baby enough to make homemade food for her! And she won't even know if it tastes like scud anyway! (When really your sole motivation is that you are too stingy to buy the prepackaged stuff when apples are $0.88* a pound, so much so that you will scrape the puree out of the depths of your blender with that skinny spatula you bought years ago and had completely despaired of ever using.)


And while some of us doting Imas have truly made an art out of baby purees (Yes, yes, Deb is a genius and we all love her,) my approach is as simple and non-gourmet as it gets:

Steam

 

{peeled apples for applesauce}



Blend

{pureed butternut squash}

Freeze

{applesauce ready to freeze}

Store

{butternut squash cubes ready to chuck in the freezer}

Defrost

{cubes of pureed carrot artfully displayed on our counter}

Serve

{Nesyah, delighted.}

*Yes, I made about 48 cubes, or what would be around 20 containers, of applesauce for about $2.50. Can't beat that.