Baby Food Brilliance

When doing all of the insane research I delved into when discovering I was creating a human. I decided to make all of my own baby food. There are so many reasons
- Cost, it really is silly how much money you would spend buying baby food. A few dollars of vegetables equals an insane amount of grub.

- Knowledge, I am a control freak and I want to know EVERYTHING that goes into my little humans body is healthy. Organic veggies are reasonable when you are making baby food.

- Convience, instead of spending hours researching all the brands and ingredients. I decide what she eats and thaw a few cubes of food.

- Teaching healthy food habits, this way she learns to love food and enjoy the eating process. She watches her food be made, she becomes a part of her food cycle which I feel like our country has lost completely. (Rant for another day)

- Waste, all of the packaging and processing that goes into manufacturing baby food is just plain crazy! The glass and plastic is just looney, after making her food and watching how little it takes I can't imagine the recycling bins of households that don't.

With all that being said, I pre-made all the basic veggies by steaming and blending. I started right after she was born. Each grocery store run I picked up a few items and put them away. Meaning I made them then vacuum sealed them and put them into a freezer. Nothing escaped my blending, not even the Halloween pumpkin. Which made an insane amount of baby food.
By the time violet was eating, we have a stock pile.
Then came the research on how to make it use able. Each vacuum bag holds quite a bit of blended goodness and I didn't want big liquid bags in the fridge so I decided to go with the ice cube method.
I purchased ice cube trays from the dollar store and figured out quickly how brittle they become...fail
I thrifted some great Ikea silicone trays in fun shapes for .25 each. They worked great however filling them was a monster mess and made them really hard to get out...fail
Next was plastic bags with  the tips cut off kinda like an Icing bag. Well the holes stretch and you end up wasting so much food in the bag. Plus you toss the bag after...fail
Finally I had a brilliant idea, I'm sure lots of mom's have figured this out but it was amazing for me. TURKEY BASTER! I fill it up, it doesn't drip, or leak. No wasted plastic and it's so easy to get the cubes out....tahdah
Finally an easy way to get perfect mixing sizes of food, I pull out a bag from the freezer make a few trays. Reseal the bag and voila, easy no mess baby food. We recently went on a five day trip and thanks to some dry ice, had frozen baby cubes for the whole trip. No need to buy any or make any while we were out there.
If you've been debating on baby food hopefully this convinced you, a few hours, a few dollars and voila.