Making baby food

Homemade Baby Food

How to make Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato. Easy to make and your Baby will LOVE it ! 

Im new to this whole Video thing so, with that said  here is my first video showing how I make butternut squash and the preparation of steaming my sweet potato .

• Butternut Squash - I cut the squash in half  long way. Then I take a large spoon and scooped out the seeds . Reminds me of cleaning out a pumpkin .  I baked mine in my toaster oven. I found a site telling me to bake it for an hour and a half but it took me 15-20 minutes and it was ready. Moving forward, I took a tray which came with my toaster oven and coated it with olive oil then I placed the squash on the tray with the shell facing up. I added a little water not much you will be able to see in the video the level of water I placed.  I show what I did next after it was cooked in my next video I post under here.

• Sweet Potato - I use a vegetable peeler and peeled the skin off the S.P . I took a big pot filled it with a little water and placed the colander in the pot. I cut the S.P into small chunks which I don't show in the video. Once its cut into chunks I place them into the colander put the lid on top and allow to steam until tender. I check the tenderness with a fork. 

Ok! now back to my Butternut squash. After cooked, I clean out the inside of the squash with a spoon and place it in a glass bowl. I like to use glass bowls because I'm dealing with hot food and i don't trust plastic when it comes to my lil- angel ( baby ). 

I wait for the squash to cool down. Once it is cooled  I spoon it out of the glass bowl into ice cube trays.  I then cover the trays with plastic wrap.

This squash filled up one tray and a half. the squash is good for three months in the freezer. When you take it out of the freezer the day before to prepare food for your baby, it lasts three days in the fridge.

After the Butter nut squash is frozen  take them out of the freezer and bag them. I put them in a freezer bag and wrote the name of veggie and date I should discard , on the bag.

I did the same thing to the Sweet Potato. 

Every night before I end my day I get my lil-mans food ready for the next day. Now, you can prepare three days worth of food like I said earlier to you the baby food is good of three days in the fridge. its up to you and how you want to do it. each cube is an ounce or a little over. My son eats 4 ounces per meal so I take four cubes out of the bags. I mix an match too. You may want chicken and apple or strawberry, banana and avocado. Have fun with it !

Homemade baby food - mixed fruit puree

Benjamin Loves Butternut Squash