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In the Can

Should Conscientious Parents Can or Freeze Homemade Baby Food?

By Katherine Bontrager

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1. Buy the vegetable or fruit you want to cook.
2. Wash, chop and boil. (Peel if it's something you don't normally eat the skins of.)
3. Put some of the water you boiled the vegetable or fruit in into the blender along with the now soft food. (You can do this while it's still hot; you don't need to wait.)
4. Blend it up and pour puree into ice trays.
5. When frozen, release the veggie cubes into labeled plastic storage bag and put in the freezer.
6. Pull out a couple of cubes when ready to use.

"We had a lot of different fruits and veggies including apples, pears, green beans, zucchini, eggplant, corn, squash, even bean soups – I think we had 18 to 20 different foods!" Yoshida says. "As long as you're following your pediatrician's advice about when to introduce foods and waiting the three days for any allergic reactions, etc., you can offer the baby a lot of options. And while I've never really done the math, it probably saves money."

Precautions and Safety Measures

But as with any homemade foods, there are some precautions you need to keep in mind.

"We recommend when you preserve anything that you start with the freshest, highest quality produce or meats," says Lauren Devine, the FreshPreserving Community Manager for Jarden Home Brands, marketer of Ball® and Kerr® fresh preserving products. "And of course you want to worry about safety, so always wash your hands and thoroughly wash produce and cook meats appropriately."

And Albury says that parents should never freeze food contaning previously frozen breast milk. "Many parents stir breast milk into purees, but if this breast milk had already been frozen, it is not safe to freeze it again," she says.


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