It’d never really crossed my mind that buying baby food in jars from the supermarket was a possibility.  I guess I assumed it was for people who had a lot of money or for people always on the go and fed their baby’s out and about.  But then again had I ever really thought about the prospect of making my own baby food?  What was baby food?  I think this was a question I asked myself the first time a friend said, “are you going to make your own baby food?”.  I came to realize that the first foods for a baby were just straight fruit and vegetables cooked until they were soft enough to mash up with a fork.  Easy.  The hardest part of making your own baby food is how time consuming it is, but if you don’t have anything else to do (other than study for the biggest test of your life that is) then you’re laughing!  So this morning I came downstairs with Poppy and tucked her into ther high chair and started making her breakfast.  I realized I needed to cook the sweet potatoes and broccoli we had bought for her before they went bad.  So I wrapped the potatoes in tin foil and stuck them in the over at 450 for an hour.  They were massive sweet potatoes so I thought an hour was needed for these beasts.  Then I got the steam thingy out and popped it into the saucepan, filled the pan with some water and chopped and threw in  the broccoli.  I fed Poppy her breakfast (warm oatmeal and pear) and pottered around until the broccoli was soft.  Then I threw it into our mini food processor and voila! a few whizzes later and Poppy has herself a weeks worth of dinner!  When the sweet potato was ready I peeled the skin off and threw that into the food processor too and voila! a few more weeks of dinner.  To store everything I do the whole ice tray thing and freeze it.  Every meal time I pop a cube out, give it a spin in the microwave and its soft and warm and ready to eat.  Poppy loves sweet potato and broccoli.  Today I did something a little different too.  I keep hearing about how you should start introducing different textures and stuff.  So I decided to boil some brown rice, chop it a little further in the FP and add it to the sweet potato.  It was a trial run and Poppy wasn’t too sure tonight when she tried it but don’t they say you have to introduce new foods to baby’s about 10 times until they realize they actually like it.  So I’ll keep giving it to her every night before I switch to something I know she likes like straight and plain sweet potato.  Here are a few photos as always!!