Paul and I made the decision shortly after finding out that we were expecting that we wanted to make our own baby food with as much local produce as possible. Since Little Man is going to start "eating" soon, and well, it is February, it is difficult to find fresh, local produce, but we are still committing to making food.
We have started with sweet potatoes because they were $0.59 per pound last week at one of the grocery stores, so we picked up these two beauties for less than $2.00.
The next step was to cook them, and because they were so large, I had to pull out our large stock pot.
I cooked them according to The Betty Crocker Cookbook (10th edition). Cover them with water, then boil for 20-25 minutes, until they are soft. Once they were cooled, I was able to pull off the skins.
Then into the Baby Bullet (Thanks Nynna! Best Christmas present ever!). One sweet potato, one cup of water, pulsed for about 10 seconds, or until smooth.
Then into single portion containers. One sweet potato made 16 approximately 1 tablespoon portions (give or take, I used a large cereal spoon to measure). Tomorrow I will tackle the second (mostly because I have more containers to wash). It still blows me away, approximately 32 portions of sweet potatoes for less than $2.00!
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