Homemade baby food

[mobear]

My baby is 6 months old and so far I have been feeding him store bought purées but I’d like to start making purées and food for him at home. Given the expense, baby food makers seem to have a short life span. I’m thinking about getting a Magimix instead. Has anyone bought a Magimix in this situation and found it useful?

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OP I’m weaning my second baby currently with a 15quid hand held blender, I made a batch of diff purées and froze them using my pan, my steamer and my hand blender.
As she gets older the food gets more solid, no reason at all to buy such a gadget

DD refused to be spoon fed so I ended up giving away all my lovingly homemade purees (that'll teach me to be prepared ) but I used my mini Magimix (Le Micro) and it worked well. If you're in to cooking it's a useful thing to have for not much counter space - great for pesto, sauces, curry paste etc. What it obviously can't do, which a full size one could, is chop large amounts of vegetables, make a full recipe of dough etc. One day I will buy a full-size food processor but in this tiny flat, the mini one does me well

Another vote for a stick blender, less washing up too!

Stick blender for me too! Really good and mine came with a whisk attachment too so I use it for all sorts!

'My baby is 6 months and I either just mash her food with a fork or five finger foods. They don’t really need purée at 6 months'

Correction your baby didn't need it but lots do. Afterall they are all different!

Given that you’ll be moving on from smooth purées in a couple of weeks anyway I wouldn’t get a magimix just for that, as they’re very pricey. But it is a useful thing generally for chopping veg, grating cheese, making soup etc so if you would use it for those things it’s a good quality piece of kit. But for purées alone for the short time you’ll be using them you would be much cheaper buying the pouches!

Another useful thing with a stick blender is you can roughly blend it if required so still leaving some chunks in sauce/soup or whatever. We still use ours now for pasta sauces etc and my oldest is 4. My 1 year old just eats what we do now cut up but it was so handy when he couldn't.

@PastaLaVisaBBY Thanks, that was my thinking. For now but also for going forward, rather than buying a baby food maker, like Beaba, that will have a limited lifespan.

@mobear I have made a slow cooker beef bourguignon, I think it was a bastardised Julia Child's recipe. And yes, nothing will taste as good as doing it in a cast iron (non-branded in my case) dish but it was delicious. It did require some work rather than just dumping stuff in. We get pre-frozen chicken from Costco and use that in curries or jambalaya in the slow cooker which is literally a dump it all in job.

Have a look at The Batch Lady on YouTube she has loads of helpful stuff for batching and freezing plus the all important reheating.

I think at the end of the day if you love the idea of the Magimix get it. It isn't like it will die if you don't use it.

Oh my god.... Just do baby led weaning.

No need to blend or puree anything...

Just give them food.

I think that’s why I find the nutribullet handy, you can do small portions of things.
When Ds was weaning I could make a Bolognese for all of us, take some out and blitz his a tad and freeze 4-5 portions. But he only needed that maybe 6-9 months, so like you say as machine is worth getting one to use yourself not a special baby one.

@00100001 If you read my previous post, I tried baby led weaning, my DS didn't take to it. It would have been my preference. This purchase isn't only for weaning though, but cooking when DS is older as well.

I have a Kenwood and like cooking, but didn’t use it for pureeing baby food etc. I used a stick blender to blend our meals usually- leaving out salt until after I’d made the baby stuff. They had pretty much the same as us from about nine months with increasing lumpiness until it was just ordinary food at about a year.
They fed themselves from about ten months albeit with hands instead of cutlery mainly. Spaghetti bolognese made a delicious but widespread mess, but that didn’t matter.