Our Struggle With Eating: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly!

I begin this by saying I never thought I would be a mom who made baby food. Any baby I had ever been around was always formula fed and ate gerber baby food. While for some families there is nothing wrong with that. With formula and gerber baby food of course your child is still getting the needed nutrition, but do you really know what is in that jar of food?
I broke the norm from all babies I had ever been around, interacted with or even seen. I breastfed, although it was only for about a month, the attempt was there. Let me tell you, IT WAS HARD. I'm not talking like oh this hurts hard, I'm talking HARD. Being the only one able to feed your child, the only one that has to get up at all hours, constant pain in the boobs(CONSTANT), and stressful. Oh and of course with stress comes lack of supply, which then causes more stress, it became a downward spiral from there for myself. It was after I was hospitalized for 4 days due to an infection that i finally threw in the towel. I felt defeated.
I had received my baby bullet as a gift from Dennis' mother. After I could no longer breastfeed I knew I would make James food from then on.
I then took that a step further when Dennis and I decided that all James food we gave him(within reason) would be organic. Sure there is plenty of organic baby food lines out there, but we figured since there are still additives in most of those(ever wondered how they stay fresh so long??) we would make as much as we could.
Anyways, so here is how we make James baby food. The example is just one type of vegetable but we basically make every food this exact same way, so you get the idea!

So this is what the Baby Bullet looks like.
The kit includes:
Large Batch bowl
Power Base
Date-dial Cups
Short Cups
Stay Fresh Lids
Blend Blades
Milling Blade
Storage System Completer Kit

Basically I was making sweet potato's in the picture, so I baked them first so they would be soft, along with cooked. I then put the sweet potato in the big batch bowl along with a little bit of water. That is what I like most about making my own food that because I control how much water I put in with it I then control the consistency. Like when James was 4 months old trying his first foods I would make his food very runny. Now that he is almost 8 months old I make his food with very little water. Another advantage is when I steam vegetables like apples, instead of losing all the nutrients when cooked I actually use the steamed water to mix the food with, that has all the awesome nutrients that would be lost. 

After I mix the food I either put it in the date-dial cups, or an ice cube tray. I love using the ice cube tray method because then after I have all these frozen cubes of food I then put it in the freezer safe bags, it takes up much less room that way. Plus food is good for 3 months in the freezer so you can make a bunch at one time so you don't have to constantly keep making it!

You can purchase your own baby bullet from Amazon right here: