Recipes needed

You can easily preserve stewed fruit (apples etc) either in sealed jars or in containers in the freezer. Did you want a recipe for how much sugar to fruit?

It will probably work out a lot better for you this way - jar food gets really expensive as they get older and you won't have to wean her onto grown-up food later

great, thanks for that...im not wanting to do icecubes as i dont have enough trays and i want to do bulk cooking....so will just buy some cheapy containers and do it that way.

Peaches, pears, apples, yummmy

ice cube trays are pretty cheap

I got a couple of bright green ones so they were easily distinguished from the ice cubes - could just see Jono pouring himself a bourbon on the rocks and ending up with pureed kumara or stewed apple in his drink I just do up a couple of batches of fruit, and veges each week and put them in glad bags once frozen - much cheaper than jar food, and makes me feel good to make good food for my baby now he hardly ever breastfeeds.

Actually, I just looked at her age - when Ella was around 7 months she started wanting pieces of fruit instead of pureed.. so you might not need to do it for all that long - although it is handy having something on hand without having to cut anything up..

I had a constant store of mashed, frozen (ice cube) kumara. It was great for adding into whatever we were already having for dinner and if we were having something inappropriate like roast (crunchy) veges or something, Briona could have just kumara on its own. In my experience, littlies like kumara because it's still sweet

Yeah Rhiannon is great with the veges and meat...which i do myself so im going to start doing the fruits...off ot the markets on the weekend..to get some stuff

I thought around 8 months was around when you give meat? could be wrong though, these things change from year to year.

Hey cool, I'll check that out. Thanks Haleighsmum!

Yep, from 7 or so months meat is all good. I used to give Maya mince pureed in with her veges.