Freezing Organic Homemade Baby Food

Once you have made your delicious organic puree for lucky baby, spoon or pour into regular ice cube trays and then cover with plastic wrap. Prior to using your ice cube trays, you want to thoroughly cleanse them with warm soapy water and/or run them through the dishwasher on the sanitize setting. Some parents have even submerged their ice cube trays in boiling water for sanitizing (note: please make sure that the manufacturer of the trays indicates it is OK to boil the trays.) Make sure you label what they are as you will wonder what an earth they are when they are frozen!

The ice cube tray method of storing homemade baby food offers you many advantages.

• Each cube is approximately 1+ ounces, allowing you to have an idea of the amount of food your baby is consuming.
• There is minimal waste as you use only 1 cube at a time and will not have to toss away much food; such as you toss away when using commercial foods.
• Another advantage is that you probably have ice cube trays on hand and will not need to go out and buy them.
• Once the purees have been frozen in the trays, you simply pop out the cubes and use as needed. Using this method also allows you to make several trays at a time so your time spent in the kitchen making baby food is decreased.

You may transfer the baby food cubes into freezer bags, freeing up your trays for the next batch of food as well as freeing up some freezer space.

If using the freezer bag method for your food cubes, be sure to label the bags with the type of food and also date the bags. This will help you to quickly grab a cube from a bag of veggie, meat and a bag of fruit without having to guess what you have in the bags. It also allows you to keep track of the length of time the food cubes have been in the freezer.

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