Adventures in Baby Food- Saga #2

Baby Food Tale #2
Carrot Puree




As we last left our heros in the kitchen covered in applesauce, we are not moving on to something much more disgusting to us as adults, but so yummy to babies, the carrot puree! Yum!

Not to state the obvious, but... start with carrots! 1 pound is what I start with. 

You can buy baby carrots pre-peeled to make things a little easier, but whole carrots in our area are around 50 cents cheaper per pound. 

Chop and steam the carrots. Depending on your veggie steamer (check the manual if using an appliance type steamer) but we do 1 cup of water for 25 minutes. 

1 pound of carrots made about 16oz of baby food. 

The cost savings for this one are as follows- 

Cost of 5oz or 1 package of  store bought carrot puree- $1.05

Cost of 15oz of store bought carrot puree- $3.15

Cost of 1 pound of whole carrots $1.05

Cost of 15oz of homemade applesauce $1.05

Carrot puree is good for about 3 days, unless kept frozen, for best taste, use frozen foods within 30 days.  Keep that in mind when choosing amounts of food to make. We use dry erase markers do write down date on container if not using containers with date dials on them. 

Thanks for reading! 

Kaelee