Baked Peaches

Finally, peaches are in season - well sorta! You can find white peaches, georgia/california peaches in most stores now. Sweet!! No more jarred peaches for my little one!

I decided this time to use my new favorite method - baking!

Take as many peaches as you want
Preheat your oven to 400 degrees.
Wash off the peaches
Put about an half inch of water into a glass baking dish
Half each peach and lay it in the glass baking dish, in the water.. with the cut side in the water and the skin facing outwards (not in water)
Bake for 25 minutes
When you take them out.. let them cool for a few moments
This is the easiest way to peel peaches - the skin will peel/fall right off!
Chop them up, put them into the blender, puree and freeze!

Mango Madness

Caelyn has covered basically all of the basics...
carrots = ew
green beas = bigger ew
peas = good, but only the jarred not mommy's
sweet potato = yummy
squash = tolerated
apples = good
bananas = FAVORITE
pears = delicious
peaches = yumyum

So... I decided to move onto something fun.. Mango.. I decided this as I was walking through Walmart and saw a bag of Dole frozen mango..
REMEMBER: When you buy frozen or anything not fresh, read the ingredients it has to say only the fruit and maybe water. if it doesn't, don't use!!
So.. this was only Mango chunks.. it was expensive.. almost $3 but it made 16 1-oz portions. Mango isn't something that I would give her everyday.. but we started off with just mango to see her reaction.. and make sure there are no allergies.. so far so good..
Mango is good for mixing!
Mango & banana
Mango & apple..etc! Thats what I wanted her to try mango. She had mango and bananas this morning and that equals yumyum.

1 bag of Dole Mango chunks
1 cup water

I microwaved the chunks for about 5-6minutes until they were very soft. I put them in the blender.. until it was nice and creamy.. this equals 16-1oz portions, but i kept out about 2-3oz for that days meals!

Baked Apples

Recently I decided it was time to make Caelyn some homemade apple baby food.I decided to taste her jarred applesauce.. YUCK! It doesn't even taste like apples! Whatever!

So, I bought 4 apples (don't use Granny Smith because they really are bitter. Use anything else!)
I had thought about boiling them like I do with alot of other things.. then I remembered.. Apple Crisp.. yumyum right?
So.. I took my 4 apples..
I washed and peeled them, along with cored them.
Then, I diced into little pieces.
I preheated my oven at 325 before I did all of this. I put the apples in a glass baking dish along with about 1 1/2cups of water - 2 cups. I don't remember exactly (opps! haha)
I baked the apples for 25 minutes. Yum, the kitchen smelled delicious! Of course, I took a couple for myself haha.
Then, I pureed them in my blender, using some of the leftover water that I baked with.

This made about 32 1-oz portions of apples. Perfect! And, they were delicious - yes I tried it! If you can, try baking things! It really is yummy.

Pureed Bananas with Cereal

I found that when I made bananas, they came out too thin and its hard to control.. meaning me.. with the spoon. I spill it on her! haha

Bananas are a great food for everyone. The potassium is great for everyone.

With bananas, there is no need to cook then, but remember to definitely buy organic bananas. They are sprayed to get rid of fungi and organic has less of this. Wash the peels, even though they will be thrown away. No bacteria!

You can make banana on a need-to-use basis, or a freeze full. I make a freeze amount because Caelyn eats banana everyday. She loves mommy's yummy bananas!

I bought a bag of organic bananas for $.69, perfect!

I peeled them and diced into pieces. Puree them in your blender or whatever. I added a tad bit of water to make the pureeing easier for the blender (haha, I act like it has feelings). Once I pureed it all, I realized that I thought it was too thin. I added about 4-5tbsp of rice cereal. You could add oatmeal if you want to! I pureed it for another second or two to mix it together.
I spooned the mixture into ice cube trays and froze overnight.

I can't remember the exact amount it made but it was around 24 1oz portions, for $.69.. you can't beat that!

My baby loves homemade banana baby food. Try the kind in the can.. I did and its nasty, there is nooooo yummy taste!