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Making your own baby food
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I always loved making baby food for my kids, here are some necessities you need to do so. šŸ“šŸ„• Sick of recalls?? ā€¦ Making your own baby food prevents unwanted ingredients in your babies food. Such as LED and any harmful chemicals that could potent...
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Jars and pouches
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Processors and blenders
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Veggies and fruits you can cook and blend for baby
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Storage ideas for your freezer

Jars and pouches

You can use both jars and pouches, or you can choose one! Jars are easier to reuse, saving you money. Pouches are convenient while you are out in public! Some are reusable but I find them hard to clean.
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Baby food jars from Amazon! (I liked these ones!)
Empty Baby Food Jars
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I LOVEDDDD these so much they hold plenty for a baby to eat for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. These made it a lot easier when I had many other chores to do and he could just feed himself while I folded laundry! :)
Kirecoo Reusable Baby Food Pouches 12PCS 7oz
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Processors and blenders

Processors are expensive, but a lot of people prefer and love them! Blenders work just fine, although you must buy a nice blender, cheap ones will not puree the food well enough. Personally I got a cheap one once and it started chipping pieces into ...
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Baby food processor idea!
Grownsy Baby Food Maker with Steam Basket
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I loved using my ninja for baby food!! :)
Chef tested & reviewed: Best blender food processor combos
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Veggies and fruits you can cook and blend for baby

What foods should I start with? VEGGIES. You want your baby to start with vegetables so they do not get the yummy sweet fruits and then refuse the ā€œyuckyā€ greens! I would always mix apples and bananas because apples gave my kids softer bowels whic...
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Squash was my kids FIRST food! You just have to take out all of the seeds and gunk, cut it up, boil it until it is very soft, then blend it up till all chunks are gone!!
Squash!!
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Storage ideas for your freezer

Storage ideas are always so fun!! Budget friendly ideas would be simply storing your baby food jars/pouches in large ziplock bags! That keeps it sanitary and separate from the rest of your freezer foods! Other ideas would be containers, there are ...
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A couple of little ideas for storage
Link below for a suitable container, also, zip lock bags are a great idea for pouches but could be used for both!!
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