I made our first son's baby food for the first 3 months that he was eating solids. It saved a tremendous amount of money and really wasn't too much of a pain. The reason I stopped was in December of 2010, I was pregnant and then came down with some horrible cold/flu and literally was not able to do much of anything. My mom was here for two weeks and essentially took care of our son, house, etc... I really couldn't ask her to make homemade food, so she bought food, which our son had difficulty eating at first...anyways, once I was not sick anymore, I was still so exhausted with the pregnancy (I have rough pregnancies to say the least), I decided that I would just continue with the store bought food.
So, in our effort to save money, I will once again be making food.
To clarify, I do not make my own cereal. We have always defaulted to the Earth's Best cereal, so that is what our baby boy has been eating. I have bought a few things to have on hand. Bananas mainly... baby food bananas are sooooo yummy!!! Prunes as well, because you just never know when the little one may get backed up!
So, today I am whipping up some sweet potatoes. Once it is done and sectioned into servings, I will update to let you know how much I spent per serving vs. the store bought food.
I am excited! We spent so much money on baby food, so I would love to see this work out this time.
We're still going strong on BF (no teeth yet, so we shall see). My goal was 6 months, which he will be in 3 days, so I expect we will make it. With our first, we supplemented from about 2 months old with formula, then he went straight formula when I got pregnant. He was 7.5 months old. I hate the thought of having to buy formula again. It is so expensive and from what I have seen, the prices have gone up since we last bought it.
Catch ya'll later with my baby food update!
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