Homemade Baby Food

in the past few months i have become a baby food making aficionado!

seriously i have attacked making food for Beckett with a verve and dedication.  i decided to go the home-made baby food direction for several reasons.
1.  no perservatives
2.  i know exactly what's in the food
3.  he just plain likes it more
4.  MUCH, MUCH cheaper... LOADS.

truthfully it is worth it just for reason #4.  Let me give you a quickie example.  Mostly i buy organic fresh produce from a local farm stand but... sometimes especially in winter diversity is needed.  So, i bought a bag of frozen organic peas on sale for 1.88 and cooked and blended them to make something like 32 cubes of baby food.  Each cube is about 2 Tlbs. i figure about half a #2 size jar... if i did the math correctly that would put peas at 11 cents a "jar" full.  Most baby food is something like 75 cents to 1.24 a jar.  woot woot. 

anyway he loves it... and i know he is getting the good stuff.  don't get me wrong we still have some jars for those times on the go but making his food has been fun and a big savings.  (Especially when he is eating 14 cubes a day!)