Blenders and babycook

[pookey]

Hi we don't keep a very well supplied kitchen and only have an old hand held blender without instructions that dh used once for making dip . Will that do for blending food for a 6 month old, particularly meat? I am interested in babyled weaning and finger foods so prob wont be doing that much pureeing if ds gets on with that?

Does anybody know if the all singing and dancing babycook in the catlogues is any good, it seems a little expensive? Or can anyone recommend a good blender that they use for theirs and baby's food.

Thanks

Pookey I would use what you already have, esp as wanting to do BLW and finger foods. I hadn't got a hand blender so I did buy one, but in hindsight, a cheaper one would have been fine, as I hardly do anything - just the odd fruit puree to add to yoghurt.
Good luck with it all!

I had/have a baby cook (don't know how much they cost now), but I thought it was worth the money as you could steam the babys food and then blend it, meant you could do them quickly if necessary. Still use if for chopping small amounts of things when I'm cooking...

A hand blender is very useful for cooking, but if the one you have now works fine, then why buy a new one?

I didn't give solids with DS2 until he was 6 months, and although I made some purees, he refused to eat any of them. He ate meat very well, without any pureeing or chopping. At first, he'd just suck on "fingers" of meat, and then he started eating it.

thanks, I guess the best thing is to make do and see how I get on with what I have, esp if meat doen't need to be pulsed whatever that means! Will have a rethink about investing in something new if I end up making loads of purees.

I never had a blender when I weaned dd. I just used a fork.

wow hercules that is certainly a cheaper option makes sense what did they do before blenders?

Babycook is £60 in Vertbaudet. I have a Moulinex Illico, was about £16 from Argos 4 yrs ago, and is brilliant. Though the seive works perfectly, just tajes a little more time.

I had a BabyCook for ds2 and I really liked it - it was well worth the money (I paid about £50 for mine, they must have gone up). Dh thought it was a wild extravagance but even he admitted it was a really useful piece of kit.

And...I sold it on ebay for about £30 when I was finished with it

We bought a Babycook last October when DS started to refuse to eat jars of babyfood and, being a working mum, I did not have much time to make home-cooked meals.

Since then, DH (who says it is the best piece of baby equipment we bought) and I have used it to cook two meals a day, so while it did cost around £55 (we bought ours from jojomamanbebe) I do think that we have got our money's worth. And it is so quick and easy to use: I would not be without the Babycook now (it even goes on holiday with us)!

For meat and anything difficult to mash with a fork, if you can get to a big Tesco get one of their Value hand blenders. £4.99 and it does the job perfectly