- Hi everyone.
Welcome back to my channel.
Today we are just having a really lazy day
at home and I'm going to do a big batch cook
for weaning food for Jackson.
We've been weaning him a little bit for the past week,
but it's time to get organized
and actually make some purees
and have things on hand that he can eat.
This is everything I bought today.
We just literally went to our local farm shop,
which is great because all of the food
there is organic and I just know
that it's not got any like nasty pesticides
on it or anything like that, so I'm literally
just gonna run through with you what I've got
and then how I am going to cook it all
and whizz it all up.
To start out I'll just do a bit of a weaning haul
and show you what I've got for his very first foods.
Obviously, we're just going into the second week
that he's started weaning, so the first thing
that we have got is weetabix.
This is a great first food.
It's green all of the way and they just have it
with whole milk or your baby's normal milk
and I've only given it to him warmed up so far.
Also, just porridge.
Plain porridge oats are great.
I think this is better than baby rice as well.
I think baby rice tastes disgusting.
Just buy yourself some normal porridge.
It lasts for ages and then everyone can eat it anyway.
For Jackson's very first foods,
these are the fruits and veg that I have bought for him.
We've got bananas.
We've got broccoli, potatoes, avocado, carrots, pears,
sweet potatoes, apples.
And I like to buy the Gala ones
because they're not too strong
and we've got mango
and I've also just got a butternut squash,
but I've already put it into the slow cooker.
I think this is the easiest way to cook it.
You just stick it in a slow cooker
on high for three to four hours
and then you can just cut it up and puree it.
That's how I cook the butternut squash.
It's so simple and I'll just whizz it up
and then I'll put all the foods that I cook
into these ice trays.
These are the Annabel Karmel weaning ones,
but any ice trays will do.
It really doesn't have to be these ones
and then once you have frozen them in their ice trays,
all you have to do is pop them out
into Ziploc bags and stick them in your freezer
and then when you need them, like at the beginning
of each day, you can pull three ice cubes out.
Once they're thawed your baby can eat them!
Yay!
I like setting some time aside
on like an afternoon to do a big batch cook.
It's a much easier way to do it,
rather than trying to do it for each meal.
If you can get someone to have the kids
for a couple of hours and get this done,
you will feel so much more organized
and your baby will eat better foods as a result.
The next one we're gonna cook is carrots
and all you do for carrots is peel and cut them up.
Steam them for 15 to 20 minutes
on a steamer and then puree them.
Babies love carrots.
They're really, really nice and sweet naturally,
but if they need it to be even sweeter,
you can mix apple with them.
That's a really nice combination.
The next two first foods that I'm going to cook
are sweet potato and potato,
so I've literally just bought baking potatoes
and gigantic sweet potatoes
and the easiest way to cook these two is to just wash them,
prick them with a fork and put them in the oven
for an hour or an hour and a half,
how long it takes to make them tender
and then you can just puree them or mash them
as you would normal potato and these normally do need
some whole milk added to them
to make them nice and smooth for a baby of Jackson's age.
You're getting tired.
Broccoli is also a great first food,
but I find it's quite a strong flavor
for a little baby, so whilst you can just steam it up
until it's tender, whizz it and give it to your baby,
I like to steam this up and mix it with sweet potato
or potato because I find my baby takes it easier,
so that is how I'm gonna do the broccoli.
Then onto apples, so as I mentioned,
I like to buy Gala apples
because I think they're a really nice flavor.
They're not too offensive for little mouths,
so all you do for these is peel them,
cut them and core them.
Boil them in boiling water
for six to eight minutes or until they're tender
and then whizz them up with a food processor
and they're good to go.
Pears are another great first food
and Jackson has already tried them
and absolutely loves them, so I've got some more today.
What you do for these is boil them in hot water
for four to six minutes, less than an apple
because they can be quite ripe,
so just boil them up for a little bit
until they're tender and whizz them up.
Mango is a great first food,
as well as papaya, but they didn't have it
in my farm shop today, but I got some mango.
It's a really, really easy one,
because you don't have to cook it.
All you have to do is take the skin off,
cut it up and whizz it in the food processor
and you can freeze it or they can have it straight away
and then I wanted to show you two more foods
that don't require any cooking when it comes
to weaning and these ones aren't ones that you need
to batch cook, you can just use them as and when,
but I thought it was worth mentioning
because they're such good ones,
so the first one is bananas, which is pretty obvious.
You could puree if you want to,
but you can easily mash them, even small enough
for a baby of Jackson's age.
Bananas are a great one for energy, potassium.
We all know that, but also a really good one to mix
with things like porridge to sweeten them up
and most babies treat bananas like it is a dessert
and then lastly, avocado.
This is a really, really good one.
It's full of healthy fats and proteins.
I always find that when my babies eat avocado,
they sleep better that night,
so I don't think it's a coincidence.
I think it's all of the good fats
in their tummy, so all you have to do
with this one is just cut it up
when you need it, mash it up and then they can have it
or if you want to have it as a finger food
for them, cut it into quarters.
Make sure you leave the skin on
or it will slide around everywhere,
but they can hold a whole wedge of avocado
and try and eat it like that,
but yeah, this is also a great one to mix
with mashed up banana
if they don't like the taste of it.
You can sweeten it up with some banana.
I really wanted to show you this product as well.
They are so, so clever for convenience
when you're going out and about.
You can buy these pouches.
I got these from the Small Human Company
and basically they are just like your store-bought pouches
but you can fill them up from the bottom.
They are Ziploc, so you fill them up
with what you make at home yourself
and then they are easy to take out with you
and on the back you can write what is inside the pouch
and when you actually made it,
so you know when it goes off and it is BPA free, PVC free.
They're really, really cool.
I just think it's so clever.
It's so tempting to buy store-bought ones,
but they're not quite as good as the stuff
that you can make yourself at home,
so I just really wanted to show you those.
Yeah, and that is it for this video.
I just thought I would talk you through my batch cooking
because that is what I'm doing today.
I really hope you like this video.
Subscribe for more weaning videos
because I have loads more coming up
and I will see you very soon.
Bye.