Stocking Up

As summer draws to an end...*tears*...I am trying to think ahead a little bit....at least as far as Audrey's homemade baby food is concerned.
We went to the grocery store last night and I stocked up on fresh fruits and veggies so that I can spend the next few days baking, steaming, mashing, pureeing, and freezing as much as I can for the coming months. Homemade baby food can be frozen for up to three months.

Have I mentioned my method for thawing and serving? If not...here it is:
In the morning, I decide what Audrey will have for lunch and dinner. If those things are frozen baby food cubes, normally her veggies for dinner are, I get them out of the freezer baggie, place them in a small dish, cover them with plastic wrap and place them in the fridge. By dinner they are thawed. For lunch she occasionally has a frozen food cube, but usually she has oatmeal with fresh bananas, applesauce, avacados, or something else I have fresh at the house. The frozen cube isn't always thawed by the time lunch rolls around, so sometimes I have to sit the bowl in a bowl of hot water, which works quick with a fruit especially.

Anyways, I will be doing my best to fill the freezer with staples that Audrey loves, so that I won't have to worry too much about making food the first several weeks of school. My kitchen is loaded down with sweet potatos, carrots...a HUGE bag of carrots, I should really be peeling instead of typing right now, peaches, squash, apples, bananas (i'm going to make more peach banana smoothie blend) and lots of other foods waiting on me to fix them up for my girl.