Carrots.

I have a new fun hobby. Making Anslee's baby food. This all started, because Anslee was not eating well for me. There were a number of things I was blaming myself of doing wrong that caused her to not like to eat, so in my desperate attempt to get her to enjoy mealtime, I decided to make her food in my own kitchen. In this attempt, I found myself having a lot of fun...and even better, she takes the food 100% of the time with no fussing. I have been so relieved. I decided that I would blog about my experiences with her foods, as I get more creative in what I decide to feed her.

Tonight I made carrots. I think I have enough carrots for about a month now. I have frozen all but one jar, and that jar will be what Anslee will have for lunch tomorrow. This is a simple one, seeing as how it just simply carrots, with no other foods mixed in or added.

I use a Kid Co. food processor to puree the foods.


I bought 2 bags of organic carrots (each bag is 1 lb)


I chopped up each carrot


I added about 3/4 cup of water to a saucepan, then dumped the chopped up carrots in, put the burner on a medium heat and let it simmer there for about 10 minutes until the carrots were nice and tender.



When the carrots were tender enough, I added them (and the water) to the Kid Co. processor. I plugged it in and let it run until the carrots were to the consistency where Anslee will be able to safely gum them down!


2 lbs of carrot sticks gave me 7- 4 oz jars full and 3- 3.5 oz containers full. Since Anslee won't eat carrots every single day for every single meal, I have carrots that will last me quite a while now. You can safely freeze vegetables for 3 months, so now I have a little reserve!



I had started out feeding Anslee the store bought food, and for some reason I saved almost all of the jars after she had eaten (or not eaten) them. I was glad I did, because now, I have jars to put the food I make in. I also have some Kid Co. cube trays that I use as well. Both work great for knowing how much I am serving her at each meal time!

Sorry these pictures are not that great, lets be honest, I am no photographer and photographing food is much different than photographing people!

*next time I will be STEAMING the veggies rather than boiling, in order to keep all the nutrients contained* Ahhh...still learning...as I go!