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Making Baby Food at Home: Carrots, Squash and Peas

Making baby food at home is totally worth the effort, mostly because it takes very little effort to produce food of the quality that exceeds that of even good store-bought ones.

  1. Carrots (easy)
    1. Buy organic carrots, wash and cut into short pieces
    2. Buy one of these collapsible steamers
    3. Steam the carrots for ~ 20 minutes
    4. Purée the steamed carrots in a mini food processor with a bit of the water from the steaming
    5. Spoon the puréed carrots into an ice cube tray, freeze, pop out and store in an airtight container
  2. Squash (easy)
    1. Buy an organic squash
    2. Cut the squash into little wedges (about 1/6 of the whole). I made the acorn kind—butternut would be hard to cut and peel.
    3. Steam the squash wedges for ~20 minutes
    4. Peel the skin off the meat by scooping the meat with a spoon
    5. Purée with a bit of the water from steaming and follow the rest of the steps from the carrot recipe
  3. Peas (moderate)
    1. Buy a bag of organic frozen peas
    2. Steam the peas in a steamer for about 15 minutes (Most recipes call for boiling them, but I don’t think that’s necessary.)
    3. Purée the steamed peas in a mini food processor with some water from the steaming
    4. Push the puréed peas through a fine sieve to filter the hulls, which babies apparently can’t digest.
    5. Freeze and store the sieved purée the same way as above.