Pureed Carrots

When your baby first starts out on baby food, it is best to start with the normal foods. You don't want to jump straight into zucchini. My theory is I stick to the first foods I can find in the grocery stores. After she masters those, then I move onto things I can find elsewhere.
This post is going to be a bit picture heavy and more descriptive than the next ones will be because I want to show everyone how to do this, if you are first starting out. The first time I made baby food I followed a post similar to this and it helped me a lot and made me feel comfortable doing so!
Carrots are a good first food. I suggest making it thin, but not soupy/liquidy. Remember, if you go to feed them and find that it is too thin or thick, just add water to thin it or rice to thicken it!

I bought one bag of organic carrots for $.88. Try to buy organic as much as possible. Clean everything.. counters, etc.
Wash the carrots and chop off the ends
Then, after wash and chopped ends, peel the carrots to get that icky top layer off.

Dice the carrots into as small as pieces as you like. As you are doing this, put a pot of water on the stove and bring it to a boil. Its easier to do this as you chop, so you don't have to wait.

Place the carrots into the boiling water and I let them boil for about 15 minutes. You want the carrots nice and tender which makes it easier to blend.

Once they are tender, strain the water out. With carrots, you don't want to use the cooking water because it has a high amount of nitrate in it.
I slowly added carrots into the blender, blended, added water and carrots, then pureed again until I got a good constitency to it.
I estimate I used about 2 cups of water, but try and see what works best for you!

Once I got the carrots to the way I like, I spooned the mixture into ice cube trays. Each ice cube is 1oz. I like this because I know exactly how much Caelyn is eating!

When I did carrots, I cover with foil because I had nothing else but use anything you have to cover them up!

Let them freeze for about 8-10hours. I find it best to make baby food at night after Caelyn is asleep and I pop them out in the morning!

For $.88 I made 25 - 1oz cube of carrots. This equals to 12 - 2oz jars which is the size of stage one jars with a left over 1oz. Or 6 - 4oz jars which is the size of stage 2 jars with 1oz left over!

As for savings, stage one, around my home, goes for $.47 a jar.. if I was buying those, I saved $4.76. For the stage tw, those go for $.54 here. I saved $2.36. Caelyn is still young so she eats 1oz at a time, so this is perfect for now.

If Caelyn was in stage two, I would have bought two bags for $1.76 total and saved $5.26 assuming I would make the same amount.

See, I told you that you could save!