About once a month we buy the baby food for that month in bulk so that I'm not always running back and forth to the grocery store and then I can take advantage of sales as well. Its a nice system that saves me a headache and produced my personally developed bagging system and storage system for the baby food jars. When we go to WinCo I bag anyway, cause that's their system, but at other grocery stores I usually get flak for even wanting to put the food in bags. It was exciting this past trip to Dan's Market because the bagger was so excited to learn my system and wanted me to share it with the world. Most importantly she wanted me to share it with other mothers who could use it. You may love it or you may hate it, either way its been very useful and I will keep doing it for as long as I am buying baby food.
I do want to note that most of what I feed my 10 month old baby is actually breastmilk still, and then it is mostly fresh veggies. She really likes heavily steamed carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower. I also give her juiced veggies and fruit like beets, celery, carrots, and apple. She can have nutritional yeast as well, which she loves; and then she likes raw pears and avocado. Since starting to buy baby food I've found a lot more allergies with bum rashes and upset tummies, and.... lots of tears. She can't handle banana, grains of any kind, or any of the typical bad food that kids love that I wouldn't give her at this age anyway. If she has much of those things she not only gets a rash, it turns such a deep red its almost purple and sometimes starts to bleed. I have a special cream I get from target and buybuybaby. It's from a company called "Shea Moisture" is made from shea butter and has frankincense and myrrh essential oils in it that works better than any other cream I've ever found, though its hard for anything to help when its due to a negative reaction to food that's in the body still.
The baby foods are super exciting for my 4 and 2 year olds to eat as well. I like to get a lot of applesauce because it makes a really fun snack for the older kids if I need something to tide them over while I'm preparing lunch, or while we're out running errands. The jars are awesome to keep and re-use. There are hundreds of fun things you can do with them, so subscribe to my blog or youtube.com uploads to be able to see a bunch of those as I get them done.
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