Food Food Food Food....

Yep I am crazy.... I am making our own baby food, or at least as much of it as I can. It isn't easy to find certain foods that are organic around here without having to go into Cincinnati and I really don't know my way around there very well. I have tried all the local places, but most don't have the things that I HAVE to have organic. All root vegies and green leafy vegies have to be organic because of the nitrates in them. Well my MIL helped me out a bit. She planted a garden on the back hill and all the foods from it are organic. Just have to love the Grandma. So now I have green beans, zucchini and squash from there with more things to come. I was able to find spinach, potatoes, cauliflowers, broccoli and carrots - all organic. I do purchase the jarred foods for when we go out, since the homemade baby foods don't travel very well being little frozen cubes. If we are going to someone's house I can take the homemade food and just get it to the freezer once we get there, but if we are going to be elsewhere I have to take the jar foods. So far James seems to like the foods that I have made over the jar food. The jar food stinks so bad. I don't understand how jarred carrots can smell like butt, but they do. The label says carrots and water. I guess it could be the water that they use, but geze, you would think that you would make sure you used good water for it. At least I know what is going into the food that I am making. Today I was able to get the spinach, cauliflower and green beans steamed and pureed. They are all in their individual little ice cube trays freezing away. Tomorrow I am hoping to finish off freezing the cauliflower, then steaming, pureeing and freezing the zucchini, squash and potatoes. Then all I will have left are the prunes and blueberries, but they are both dried so they can wait till the end. What fun adventures I have.