Thursday: baby food

Well, I wanted to document some of my experiences with making baby food.  And I thought maybe someone else would want to see.  A "1" is hard or low while a "5" is easy or good.  edit: cost effectiveness refers to making the food vs. buying a similar, premade baby food.  n/a means that there wasn't anything close enough to compare it to.

mashed food and purees.

	easy of making	cost effectiveness	notes
apples	2	3
asparagus	3	n/a
avacado	5	n/a	freezing seems ok
banana	5	5	only from fresh
carrots	4	3	don't bake
cauliflower	4	n/a
chicken and parsnip	3	n/a
pears	2	3
peas	n/a	n/a
plums	2	4
potatoes, mashed	3	n/a	reheat with water
squash, butternut	4	5
sweet potato	4	5
watermelon	2	n/a	too runny
zuchinni and summer squash	5	n/a

finger food

	easy of making	eating	cost effectiveness	notes
apples	n/a	n/a	n/a	haven't gotten soft enough yet
avacado	5	4	n/a	messy
banana	5	5	4
black beans (from soup)	5	5	n/a
blueberries, fresh	5	5	1
blueberries, frozen	5	1	4	too red… ok with quinoa
carrots	4	5	5
cottage cheese	5	4	n/a	messy
kiwi	5	5	n/a
peaches, fresh	4	5	?	bake to remove peel
peaches, frozen	4	3	?	kind of hard
pears	2	4	2	messy from frozen
peas	5	5	5	canned
plums	2	1	?	too red
raspberries, frozen	5	1	n/a	messy
rice	3	3	n/a	keeps Isaac busy, only half ends up in mouth
shredded cheese	5	3	n/a	keeps Isaac busy, only half ends up in mouth
spagehtti	4	3	n/a	keeps Isaac busy, only half ends up in mouth
squash, butternut	4	5	5
sweet potato	4	5	5
zuchinni and summer squash	5	3	n/a	one batch good, one batch skin too hard