Making food for your baby

• Making food for your baby lets you offer textures that are right for your baby.
• Food should be smooth and pureed to start and progress to a variety of textures.
• It is easy to mash foods with a fork, potato masher, an inexpensive food chopper or food blender.
• Store-bought baby foods are fine, but not necessary. For convenience, you can buy frozen or canned vegetables without added salt and canned or frozen fruit with no sugar added.
• Prepared food can be stored in a covered container in the refrigerator or freezer.

 
Storing baby food

• Homemade food for baby, opened jars of baby food, and prepared infant formula should not be left at room temperature for more than two hours.
• Open jars of baby food and home prepared vegetables and fruit can be stored in the fridge for up to 48 hours.
• Home prepared meat, poultry, fish and eggs for baby should only be kept in the fridge for 24 hours.
• Food for baby can be kept for 3 months in a freezer.