Baby Food

(This is Bridger a few weeks ago)

Bridger is growing up way to fast for me. I planned to breastfeed him for the first year exclusively. I have been giving him a little taste of bananas when I have one. This last week I gave him a few teaspoons of sweet potatoes and realized that he is more than ready for more food. I figured I would make his food just as I did with the twins. I have got more (better) ideas on storage and making process. My Mom, who has a daycare has tons of these little containers that are making it a lot nicer for storage. Here I will give you the step by step of how I do it.

I bought some green beans, always strain and take the ends off.

Don't those beans look so yummy?

Peel and cut the sweet potatoes, you can bake and scrape but I like to boil because I use all the water in the pot, I'll tell ya later. It really looks good, right?


Can you see the steam?
Can you taste it yet? It was hard to make because i wanted to eat it!I boil until tender and then put the food in the processor. KEEP the juice you will need it to make the food a little thinner. TIP: sweet potatoes need lots of water added because they are so dry. Thats why I like to boil. That way I don't loose any vitamins and minerals. I was getting frustrated because my machine would not work... can you see it? I didn't plug it in. Silly me!
All those green beans and this is all it made. I label with the foods name and date it was cooked, I also put our name on it, just in case.
Here is all I made Monday night. I'm really glad my Mom can get those containers it makes so much easier.

My finished products.Now I just put them in my deep freezer in the basement and put a weeks worth in the freezer up stairs and a days worth (only 1 for now) in the fridge. I warm the food my placing it in a bowl of hot water, I stir until warm all the way through.

*All this from start to finish was only 2 hours and it saved me over $20*

Vote!

So I haven't got any of my projects finished. I will tell you why in the next post. I really want to talk about the elections coming this week. If you read my blog I'm sure you know who I'm voting for. I want to make sure that everyone knows that If you are voting for McCain you need to get the the polls Nov. 4th (tomorrow). If you are voting for Obama, your day to vote is Nov. 5th (Wednesday), they are giving you an extra day! Now that I got that news out I can rest assured.

update.

Here it is. I'm busy. There I said it. I am a little overwhelmed right now so there will not be any post until I can get some things done. I have been working so hard on starting up my little business and doing things for people here and there that I am overwhelmed right now. So please have patience with me. I pulled a muscle in my back (second time in a week), so I am moving a little slow on top of everything. I'm looking on the bright side of things. I'll be staying home this weekend only going out for Church and I'll hopefully get some things done at home, like I said I have TONS of work to do and I'm behind.
I want to work on getting some things out of our basement. I want to put the kids outdoor toys down there so they can play in the basement instead braving the cold. My Mom has inspired me to finish a bathroom in the basement. I think it will add to the home value (we are putting the house on the market in the spring). So like I said I have tons to do. I hope that things calm down. I have finally started saying no to people that ask me to do anything. I really hate not being able to be there for friends and family but I think I found my line. Any ways I just want you to know that I still moving on all my projects, just a little slower. I have a lot of things going on and I haven't forgotten (I hope not, call and make sure, lol.)