I like to eat, eat, eat....guest post by Lauren

Hi everyone! I’m Lauren, a new mom, a working mom, and a slightly neurotic mom.  I am so excited to have the opportunity to guest blog here.  This little corner of the blogosphere has helped me numerous times in the last few months and I can’t wait to contribute.  I should throw out a little disclaimer that I am by no means an expert on anything mom related..In fact, I have pretty much googled my way through motherhood thus far.  When my son was born I was too embarrassed to call the nurses in the middle of the night for the 864^th time for a swaddling tutorial, so I took my phone and youtubed it.  Pathetic indeed, but fairly effective.  My husband and I live in South Jersey, where we both devote our lives to educating the youth of America.  I sound saintly right?  Check out my personal blog here to learn more about the important things in my life, like wine and trying to fit back into my skinny jeans. 

For the 1st few months of baby G's life feeding him was pretty much a no brainer.  Insert boob in mouth, bam nutrition.  I started having my normal anxiety when I knew the ped was going to give us the okay to start feeding him real food.  I googled all kinds of crap.  Organic food, gluten free food, food with arsenic..awesome.  I decided to make my own baby food.  Not so much because of the arsenic, but mostly because I convinced my husband that I was saving us an assload of cash that could in turn be used to buy cases of wine..yes, cases.  I have no fancy baby food bullet, or any other magical-baby-food-making-device.  I use my good old blender and food processor.

I usually buy tons of fruits and veggies and make it all in one shot. 

I freeze the batches and they last me 4-5 weeks. 

Sweet potatoes

I put them in on 350. 

 I start poking around after 20 minutes, and leave them in until they are pretty soft. 

 Cool and mash.  

 Peas and butternut squash.

Boil forever.

 I use a double boiler thingy.  Because I am lazy.

 Added some organic chicken for a few minutes at the end.

Put in food processor with some cooking liquid, formula, or breast milk.

 Bananas and blueberries.  

Yes, my blender is pink, and yes momma was drinking some of that wine.

 I freeze all of my concoctions in muffin tins.

Is this old news? Because,  I felt like a freakin' rocket scientist when I thought to do this.

 The silicon trays are the easiest to pop the food out of. 

I like the mini muffin tins because I can mix 2 or 3 different cubes together and call it a gourmet meal.

 

So there you have it.  Baby food 101.  I am clearly a rookie, and my kid eats the same damn things everyday.  So if you have any other tips or recipes I would love to hear from you!

As an added bonus, I have included an idea for how to freeze breast milk.

I did not think of this. I googled it of course.

Get a gift bag, cut a slit in the bottom, pop the bag through.

It freezes flat, the oldest bag is always on the bottom to pull out, and it doesn't take up tons of room

Freakin' genius.

Thanks for reading.

-Lauren