Making Your Own Baby Food!

Making your own baby food doesn't take much time and gives you a sense of pride that you are feeding your little one the very best.  Honestly, in the time it could take you to watch an episode of The Real Housewives of (fill in city/state here), you could make enough baby food for the whole week.  Cooking options vary too so you could have one food item steaming and something else baking at the same time.  


The internet offers tons of websites with recipes.  Two of my favorite sites are below:


www.wholesomebabyfood.com
www.homemade-baby-food-recipes.com


One thing to keep in mind when buying groceries to make that baby food is the Environmental Working Group's Dirty Dozen.  This is a list of produce that will help you determine which fruits and vegetables have the most pesticide residues and are the most important to buy organic.  Here is the list of the Dirty Dozen (and the site for your reference www.ewg.org):


Dirty Dozen

Buy these organic

1

Apples

2

Celery

3

Strawberries

4

Peaches

5

Spinach

6

Nectarines
– imported

7

Grapes – imported

8

Sweet bell peppers

9

Potatoes

10

Blueberries
– domestic

11

Lettuce

12

Kale/collard greens

Do you have any other baby food recipe sites to recommend?