Baby food: Make your own or storebought?

[Ashley]

Did/do you make your own baby food? Or did/do you use store bought? Or did/do you use a combination of both? What helped influence your decision? If you have done or are doing both, is either way easier?

[Jojo]

I made all of Matt's baby food but also bought jars for when we out and about. Making it is pretty easy although buying it is so much easier!!

I still make his food today. He eats whatever we eat unless of course it's more grown up stuff. I just can't stand those little sausages in the water they sell :vomit:

[lilbunnygirl]

I didn't see any advantage to making it when I could buy the organic kind that had nothing in it that I wouldn't put in there, so we used Earth's Best jars.

[Bootysaurus]

With Dylan I made everything. Babyfood in the jars 10 years ago had weird preservatives...but with Aidan, I bought all her food jarred...why? Because carrots were: Water and carrots. :thumb: I couldn't do any better.

Now, she's eating table food so we're past that. Thank goodness. I make it all now.

[Goosey]

We bought the food. We didnt buy much of stage 3 cuz by then they were getting into table foods.

We had no equipment to make it ourselves so we didnt. No real influence other than didnt have money to spend on a processor or the like and didnt really care to make my own when store was just fine.

[bella_bella]

I was the same. I made most of Williams food...but when we went out or were away for a weekend I sometimes bought the jars of organic baby food. He never had any jarred meat though....he really didn't start eating meat until recently, he doesn't seem to like meat.

Now he gets everything we're eating. With a few exceptions.

[Meshell]

I made all of Will's food except for prunes. I bought the organic stuff. Once in a while we'd be out and I'd buy him jarred, but he didn't really like it. I just liked making it for him. I like to cook.

[Jojo]

I made all of Will's food except for prunes. I bought the organic stuff. Once in a while we'd be out and I'd buy him jarred, but he didn't really like it. I just liked making it for him. I like to cook.


This is the reason I made it too. I love to cook and I found some more stuff to make! I made the prunes but bought dried prunes and they froze all funky so I would just make them when I needed them.

[Elaine]

I did both. I made most of it but bought some. A lot of fruit was not in season here when I needed/wanted it so I bought Heinz organics. Making Ben's food was so much cheaper than buying it. A bag of frozen veggies is about $2 and I could fill 3 or 4 ice cube trays with the puree. One or two cubes was a meal so it cost a few cents to feed him. :twothumbs:

[AddiesMomma]

We bought the food. We didnt buy much of stage 3 cuz by then they were getting into table foods.

:ditto:

[emilade]

I put forth a lot of effort trying to make food for Alice when in the end, she simply didn't like pureed foods. Store bought or homemade. It was rough sailing until she was able to start certain table foods.

This time, I will probably go mainly store bought. That way if he isn't into it either, I didn't expend a lot of time on making anything. If I waste 70 cents, whatever. I can make that back. Can't get back the time I spent steaming/boiling and blending and pouring into ice cube trays.

[Elaine]

I tried most things in a jar before I made it myself so I wouldn't waste the time making a bunch of it. The only thing he didn't like (or didn't like him) was sweet potatoes. Oh, and bananas but that I made on the go so it wasn't a big deal.

[emilade]

And another thing; will not make the same mistake I did with Alice. I will start him on veggies before fruits :lol:. I was told to do it this way but I guess I just rebelled. It definitely bit me in the butt and I have a hard time getting her to eat veggies to this day.