Feeding Your Family For Less

Ways to Spend Far Less Money

and still enjoy LIFE.

Wanna share.

Hello from The PRAIRIE.  

I'm wearing my ruby red slippers somewhere in the Kansas Flint Hills.

Thinking about ways to SAVE money.  Glad you've stopped by.

Please say HELLO,

d

 

MAKE YOUR OWN BABY FOOD

Canned fruit in water, mashed bananas, cooked peas or carrots to puree,

 are a few favorites to start with when making your own Baby Food.

As a child grows and can handle cooked foods, puree what you can from the main meal.  

Cooked vegetables such as carrots and peas can be thoroughly mashed with a fork or blended in a food processor.  
Blenders can be used as well.  
Have you thought of using a electric coffee grinder?  

Little hand operated food grinders are on the market 

that travel light when out and about.

 When making up Baby Food, make more than needed for one feeding then refrigerate the rest in small containers.  These should keep well for three days.  You might consider using an ice cube tray to freeze small portion sizes.  After the food has set by freezing, pop the cubettes in a plastic baggy for safe keeping until ready to thaw and warm up for a feeding.  Or if you like cover the tray with cellophane or place the entire ice cube tray in a large zip lock baggy.

  

After nursing my children ran its course, being bottle fed became the main source of nourishment.  Baby Formula and Juices plus some water became the norm of feeding the babes.  Depending on the Pediatrician and their philosophy at the time of the children's birth greatly determined the method of feeding and the course of action I went.  As you know sometimes the nursing comes to a halt because the fountain runs dry or mother nature's method isn't used in the first place. 

Main thing is to hold the baby while feeding them the bottle 

so they feel secure and loved.  Slow paced.  Enjoy the moment.

With my boys, Rice Cereal was added to their menu after the one month mark.  

With my daughter came a change of doctors and philosophy.  She had no cereal until she was a year old.  Prepackaged Teething Biscuits concerned me as they would break with the possibility of chocking becoming a scare.

The convenience of prepared Baby Food in the jar was a delicacy 

and luxury for our pocket book back in the day as were disposable diapers and Playtex bottles.  You might have to Google that one. 

We managed. 

I used cotton cloth diapers with cute baby diaper pens.  Plastic panties were worn to cover the diapers up to keep outer clothing dry.  When laundering the diapers I lined dried them outdoors on the clothesline and hand washed the plastic wares.  The wind ironed the clean diapers.  They dried almost as fast as I could hang them on the line.

  Glass baby bottles were used instead of Playtex plastic lined bottles or plastic bottles period until the children were over a year old.  First the bottles were washed in hot soapy water then rinsed with extremely hot water.  Finally, I boiled them in a oversize pan of water for extra sanitation.  

Also the bottle nipples.

SPARKLING CLEAN.

  

Gradually the sippy cup came into use then a regular cup.

Dried cereal like Cheerios in a baggy make for a economic snack food.  

Easy to carry in a diaper bag or oversize handbag and very affordable.

Blessings to you,

d

1 Corinthians 10:31

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.