Homemade baby food/or commercial bought baby food?

Question

Do you make your baby food or buy the store bought.

Answer 1

Use them both, you will not always have time to prepare your food and dont want your baby to get used to just your food. When you do, dont use sugar or any condiment but a tiny very tiny pinch of salt. I used to boil chicken and choice of broccoli, potato, pumpkin and blend it with the chickens own water. even I liked it. Just make sure to introduce flavors one at a time, that way not only will the baby know and get used to them, but you will also know if he gets any allergy with some of the foods you use and if he likes that particular food.

Answer 2

I do not make my own baby food, but I wish I had known then what I know today. It is a lot more work, but the results are like night and day. Just look at all the bad chemicals in that ingredient label. Even though they are allowed to put these poisons in baby food, that does not mean that they are not bad, they are. Many of the problems that our youth is suffering today stems from all the junk that is put in processed foods. You can get a good blender and make your own baby foods at home using only organic produce. This will eliminate the poisons that are found in baby foods and help your child live a more healthy life. Not only is this good to do now, but if you had done the same while you were pregnant you would have had a very special baby. Juicing organic fruits and vegetables while you are pregnant gives that child the best possible nutrition and it would show in his intelligence and physical developement, that is a fact. It is just the opposite of a mother that smokes and drinks and does not take care of her self while she is pregnant, the children are harmed very much. You should find a book to give you ideas as to how to prepair your own foods. I own a Vita Mix, a super, total nutrition center machine. It can prepair whole foods, like baby foods, soups, juices, ice cream, and much more. The machine is expenssive-cost me 500.000 dollars seven years ago, and it is still going. I also own a Jack LaLanne's Power Juicer which makes pure juice without fiber which gives you about 93% nutrition as opposed to about 8% when you eat the fruits and vegetables.....Enjoy......KECK

Answer 3

My wife made homemade food for our baby. During the summer, we took what we harvested from our garden and cooked and pureed it and froze it in ice cube trays. We bought some organic sweet potatoes and carrots to add to the squashes, beans and other fruit we had. Then she put them in labelled zip lock bags in the freezer. We take the cubes out and microwave them in a glass bowl for about 45 seconds and we have natural baby food without all the sugar and everything else added. Pick up commercial jar of food and sugar is one of the main ingredients.

It is a heck of a lot cheaper to do it this way. I don't think the question is how much you value your time at all. It takes time to do, but saves money on buying the stuff and you know exactly what's in it. Doing it in bulk will also save a lot of time.

Answer 4

Really it just depends. For us that is way too high but for some that might even be low. For instance I work at TCP and there are people who come in and buy only a hand full of clothes and spend $200. Whereas I buy things on sale. I bought him a shirt today from work for $1.87. So for my son's whole winter wardrobe it was around $100 (including two coats) maybe $120 at the highest for some that would only be a few outfits. As far as equipment goes we didn't have to buy any of it. The only thing we bought was a convertible carseat for $80 the rest we got as presents at our baby showers. Some people aren't as lucky and have to buy it all on their own so that would be a huge cost. Good luck to you in your project hope I helped you think of a few things to keep in mind. Oh and monthly my son on average cost less than $100. I bought his diapers the other day and they were $39 and they will last at least a month if not longer. That is most of the cost for the month with the exception of a few things I buy at work, a couple jars of baby food (he is mostly on table food), and a few things I pick up throughout the month. Some months I just get the baby food and diapers because he doesn't need anything else and other months I spend a little more. EDIT: Also you have to keep in mind if the baby is a healthy one or not. For instance my friend's baby was not and cost over 1 million dollar by the time he was 2 months old!!! Luck for them they have insurance but they still had to pay what insurance didn't cover and their out of pocket cost were well over $4700. Plus with his complications he has doctors appt. all the time (sometimes 4 or more in one week alone with co-pays at each one) and is on medication which they have to pay all the co-pays for. He is almost two at this point and has been in the hospital for extended stays (longer than a week a piece) at least 5 times. Plus he will eventually have to have a heart transplant. Plus you have to keep in mind that he sees specialist and they are not located near by so they have to use the gas to drive an hour each way all these times.

Answer 5

My boys are 13 and 9. I actually did both for them. Store bought was easy when on vacation or visiting family. I was a stay at home mom at the time and homemade was easy too.

Answer 6

make my own, not only cheaper, but tastes better and is healthier as well. As for the man asking about spare time...it takes no extra time to cook and mash a sweet potato with your dinner and then puree it. The time it takes is very much comparable to the money you save. 50 cents for a jar of cardboard tasting gerber food, or 50 or a buck for a few fresh veggies and at least a months worth of food.

Answer 7

I read somewhere that it's a good idea to use the commercial baby food because they control the amounts of minerals, etc. (can't remember exactly what they control).

However, good grief, babies have been eating homemade for thousands of years. Go for it.

Answer 8

I used to buy store bought when my son was a baby. But when I saw how easy & cheaper & and more healthy it was to make it at home, I wish I would have done it that way instead.

Answer 9

I made it myself for my first born and it was easy with a steamer and putting it in ice cube trays in the freezer. But I had no time to do it for my second b/c I now had two kids! I figured as long as there are no additives in what I gave to him it wasn't much different, just more expensive.

Answer 10

There is no difference. Unless you are growing your own veggies, you have no idea what has been sprayed on or added to them. I raised my kids on store bought, they survived and with no allergies or reactions.