Baby Food

I just got my baby food book back from my good friend Cari and she also let me borrow the one she had. We both agree that they are a good combo to have. I thought I'd share about them here in case anyone plans to make their own baby food. Even if not, Super Baby Food is a great resource! She has advice about buying commercial baby food too and what to look for. The other book I have is the Top 100 Baby Purees. The second book is nice to have, but it's not essential. It gives good ideas, but wholesomebabyfood.com is a great (free) resource that does the same thing.

Back to Super Baby Food. It is seriously a wealth of information on all things that will go into your child's mouth and stomach! She talks about liquids, solids, the growth of your baby, when to introduce new foods, how to cook different things, etc. I think it would generally be more of a reference book for most people, but I just love information about this stuff so I'm reading it from cover to cover. It's interesting to know which foods to definitely buy organic for baby foods and which it's OK to get the non-organic kind. Like bananas. The fungicides they spray on bananas leak through the peal because it is porous. This makes me want to buy all organic bananas all the time. I mean, for sure I'll get them for Noah, but I don't want to eat fungicides either! Another thing she mentioned was thoroughly washing the outside of all commercial baby food jars before you open them. I think this is a little bit overkill, but she just said you never know what is on the outside of those jars and you don't want to contaminate the food inside. So while that seems a little paranoid...I'll probably do it because now I'm just thinking of all the crap that could get into my baby's food! Ah well, we make most of our own anyways.