Organic Vegetables - Pesticide Free Baby Food

Make Free Baby Food With the Vegetables You Grew this Year

Learn how to make baby food from fresh organic vegetables. Home made baby food is the healthiest and most affordable nutrition you can give to give them a head start on life.

A natural baby food recipe mixed with the juiciest organic fruits and vegetables will keep your baby growing stronger and smarter every day. Make your own baby food with these types of wholesome vegetables!

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Growing Organic Vegetables to make your own healthy food for baby must be one of life's most memorable pleasures.

By growing organic food for baby, you are providing your baby and your family with good nutrition, pesticide free, but you are saving quite a sum of money on food for baby and family on your yearly food bill too.

Food for baby can be saved for year round freedom from the grocery store baby food isle.

You will want to use your pressure canner to save the organic vegetables, and use your water bath canner for the organic fruits.

Asparagus

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Growing organic Asparagus is fun and money saving. A prolific grower during the growing season, and will shoot new spears for almost 2 months.
Growing organic vegetables like asparagus is fun, rich in vitamins and cost effective too.
Asparagus may be gas producing and so is not for babies first food. Introduce at 8-10 months.

For Babies 6-8 months will need the stalks steamed, or microwaved in water until mushy so you can puree them.
Babies 8-12 months can eat the soft stalks, just steam them for best results and baby can eat them as finger food.

Beans

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Green beans are a great source of Calcium, Magnesium and Vitamin A.
If you are planting a garden, growing organic green beans are a snap (excuse the pun) to grow. You can freeze them whole, pressure can them and of course, eat them fresh steamed.
It is not easy to get beans to a pureed form, so wait until baby is 8-10 months old and introduce them as a softened finger food.

Beets

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A great source of Vitamin A beta carotene and Calcium.
Steaming is the best way to cook beets to get them to a soft puree or soft diced form for babies aged 8-10 months.
You want to cut off the greens and peel before cooking. Grow these organic vegetables in your garden for a frugal money saving meal.

Broccoli

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Steaming allows you control over how soft you need this vegetable to be. If you are making a puree steam thoroughly, and if making finger food steam just until it holds it's tree form. Do not serve raw.
I tell my young children to eat their broccoli "trees". This simple language delighted them as toddlers and it worked getting my children to eat them for years.
Broccoli may be gas producing and so is not recommended for babies first food. Introduce at 8-10 months.

Carrots

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Carrots are high in Beta Carotene, which is a dark pigment called Pro Vitamin A, which is a carotenoid that is converted in the body to Vitamin A.
Carrots also have Vitamins C and Calcium.
Babies cannot easily digest the skin, so peel and then steam so you can puree for young babies, or cube soft bits for babies eating finger foods.

Cauliflower

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A vegetable that is high in cancer fighting phytochemicals, similar to brussels sprouts and broccoli.
A great source of Vitamin A, Ca and Calcium, cauliflower should be steamed, and then either pureed or softened for baby finger food.
Since this vegetable can be a little hard to digest, hold off until baby is 8-10 months old.

Corn

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Let's hold off on the corn until baby is over 12 months old. It has relatively little nutritive value compared to most other vegetables. A starchy vegetable, corn is an empty calorie food and should also be considered a choking hazard for young babies,
Do not worry about foods with corn derivatives, which is another matter entirely.
Corn syrup, starch and corn flours are all used to make a variety of foods including Cheerios and infant formula.

Cucumbers

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Since cucumbers are mostly water, they are not considered a good baby or toddler food. The skin and seeds are not baby friendly so save them for early childhood as you introduce fresh salads to preschool age children.

Peas

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A highly nutritious first food for baby. Full of protein, calcium and Vitamins A and C. Choose baby peas to start with as they are easier to mush for babies ages 4-6 months. After this time baby can eat them cooked or steamed until tender.

Potatoes

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Sweet potatoes and yams make excellent baby food. Steam or bake them until very tender. properly prepared, Sweet potatoes or yams can be fed at all ages 4-12 months.
White potatoes are a poor cousin in nutritional terms and should be left out of baby's diet until she is 10-12 months old.

Squash

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Very good first foods, butternut, acorn and winter squash are chock full of Vitamins and Calcium.
The best way to cook squash is to roast or bake them, then you can go on to puree or cube for baby's meal.

Tomatoes

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This fruit is not recommended for babies younger than 8-10 months due to it's high acid content, but you can cook them into a fine sauce, as cooking tends to lower the acidity.
High in Vitamin C and about 22% of the RDA for Vitamin A, fresh tomatoes should be introduced by 8-10 months, although for younger babies tomato sauce and can be used on pasta to make a great meal for baby.

Rutabega & Turnips

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At 8-10 months of age, baby can learn to appreciate this vegetable if cooked very soft.
High in Vitamin C, fiber and some protein, both vegetables can be introduced steamed, baked and then mashed, or cooked and cubed for older babies.

Growing Organic Vegetables is not at all hard to learn how to do, and is fun, rewarding and truly frugal!

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