Making baby food questions

I make "casseroles", often just on stove top, but cook very slow to make the meat tender and eay to cut up. When JJ was little, I would just use my stick blender after I had cooked it to mince it all up. I did, and still do, freeze the "casseroles" seperately, then I can choose different veges or whatever to have with the meat, for variety. I just make old fashioned casseroles with gravy bases and add in veg, then serve with rice, pasta, spud or whatever, although your situation might be a bit diferent, but I always serve with extra veges on the side as well, bits of carrott, broccoli, etc.
I remember plunket telling me to make it more like a gravy than a casserole at first, until he had a grasp on the chewing thing. Stick blenders rock, although it is probably less mess in a blender/food processer.

Haha! I've been doing that too today Toni (but not as excessive as Martha Stewart! Just a bit of brocolli and courgettes for today - which with a bit of pumpkin was a roaring success!).

Not really sure about the meat thing. The casserole thing is a good idea. Do you have a slow cooker/crockpot? Perhaps you can put a bit of meat and veges and water all in that and set it for 4-6 hours. Or even better, if you do a crockpot meal for yourself and hubby, use a few cubes of meat for Caitlin's dinner and puree that with some mashed veges.

My guess is you can freeze the meat and vege together - no different from being combined in a tin/jar, is it? I don't really know though. My other guess would be to cook it before mixing it with the veges. I know how you're feeling!

Poor Jack had the most boring and probably tasteless meals. I used to get diced meat and boil it for ages and then chuck it in the blender (preferably with the water it was boiled in) and freeze it in ice cubes and he would have 2 each meal. For veges and fruit and I would peel and dice and boil up and then chuck it in the blender and freeze in muffin tins and he would have one muffin with the 2 meats.

No allergies here but he didn't have any pasta or anything for ages. Is she OK with potatoes? I have no idea what has gluten in it but you could get gluten free baby rice and add that in?

i would cook the meat and then blend it. some kinds of meat "stick" together after cooking - like chicken and pork. so if you blended them before and then cooked - you'd have a patty. nice - but not for a baby.