What do once you have frozen puréed fruit? Really stupid question

[keely027]

Ok never fed before, I want to start with stewed fruit as advised. Do you defrost fruit naturally. And serve cold, or microwave and serve warm?n

You need to microwave to piping hot for hygiene reasons.

Defrost naturally or in a bowl of warm water, and you can give it either warm or cold. Personally I didn't do the whole piping hot and cooling again.

Quite handy to give it cold so they are used to it when our and about. Saves a lot of faff.

I know Annabel Karmel isn't everyone's favourite on here but her baby/toddler book is really helpful and I'd recommend. Still dip into every so often now (10 years and 4 kids later).

I have a block of ice in the freezer, the ones to put into picnic baskets. That makes the cooling down much faster.

I had the Annabel Karmel book, but I am not the best to comment how good it is. (DD turned out to be a spoon refuser, so we made nothing from the book. I gave it to a friend).

I didn't even bother pureeing fruit, just pot those wee fruit pots, organix and hipp do them, just felt that it was so time consuming and the pots are so handy out and about, I did do veg though and always microwaved from frozen.

Hi if you freeze your purée in an ice cube type tray, a few squares will defrost safely in the fridge in an hour or so. Or defrost in microwave to piping hot, then cool to eating temperature

Tango, I wouldn't give my DD ready made fruit pot normally, just because I wouldn't eat tinned fruit or adult fruit pot myself. I go by the rule she eats what I eat. I can't see why you'd puree veg and not fruit.

FWIW, I did all 2 weeks of it pureeing before I gave up with the whole spoon feeding puree thing because DD wouldn't eat it. I did make batches of apples, pears, carrots, buttersquashes. (I was making something different everyday to see if DD would eat them). I still cook muffins and burgers in batch and freeze for emergencies. I use the tommee tippee pots and put in little nuggets of homemade food inside to take out. And if I'm lazy, I just take sliced cheese, raisins, and fruit. I don't think packing a box of strawberries and cheese is actually harder than buying a jar or pouch of food.

If pushed for time, you can defrost in a pan on the low heat on the hob with a splash of water added.

There are no additives or preservatives, just fruit so whats the issue with it?

onelittle I did veg because it was more cost efficient, fruit tends to be much more expensive than veg get off your high horse I was just giving advice as to what I found easier, sorry if its not to your taste.

And its not comparable to tinned fruit either.

The OP asked about homemade pureed fruit.

And you did say pureeing fruit is not worth the bother. Then why bother to even buy fruit pots when you can actually just stick a piece of strawberry or peach down anyway? Your argument is just that it costs less, isn't it?

I wasn't starting an argument to be fair.

Or a debate.

Looking at ocado's website,

A pack of 6 posh waitrose bananas are 6 for £1.20. So it's 20p for banana.

A pack of 4 organix fruit puree is 4 for £1.75, so 44p for a pot.

Sorry, I'm not buying the argument it's cheaper to buy fruit pots. Incidentally. DD goes mad with bananas, and I just break off the pieces and give it to her. Don't see how that's harder than opening a pot.

I used to take a couple of ice cubes out at a time and depending on time of year and stuff I would either serve it hot or cold, microwaved to defrost and warm up or left to defrost in the kitchen and served cold.

ooh also I would freeze them in icecube trays then tip them out and store the cubes in a bag so I could do multiple freexes without needing hundreds of icecube trays.

Oh good god sorry I spoke OP ignore my comment its obviously opening a can of worms.

I was only talking about introducing DD to fruit via purées etc, I gave DD whole bits of fruit from about 7 months.

To be fair onelittle you do sound a bit judgey, she didn't sound like she was starting an argument & she never said fruit pots were cheaper than whole fruit, just cheaper than puréed veg, as I understood anyway? Besides which whole uncooked banana is bound to be cheaper than puréed organic banana, per gram, but I bet you regularly have to throw out the rest of the banana, which makes individual portion pots cheaper in the long run. Plus they're much less work than cooking, cooling, freezing & defrosting your own. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with them, no added salt or sugar (like in tinned fruit).

I did what neverknowingly did with the tipping into bags. Then I'd leave them out to defrost for a couple of hours, or defrost them a bit quicker over a bowl of warm water. Never really reheated them to boiling tbh because I read that it isn't necessary & kills a lot of the nutrients.

Why throw out the banana? Surely an adult can finish it?

Abody why do you need to throw out the left over banana? I eat them myself. I also eat the toasts, omelettes, muffins left over by DD. I'm skint and don't like to waste food.

Tango - is did your other thread get deleted?

On reheating I think it depends on how you prepare, store and handle the purée. If you prepare it under sterile conditions, freeze it in a single portion sterile pot and defrost it without opening you might skip the piping hot thing (though personally I wouldn't). Otherwise it is little hassle for a short time...

Okay you eat it, but you still have to pay for a whole banana each time your baby has a bite of one. What if you don't want to eat all the leftovers anyway? Maybe you don't like bananas. My point was really just that it might work out cheaper for her, but she wasn't even claiming that it did. Anyway, I really don't want to get into a debate about this, I just didn't see why she deserved to have you looking down your nose because she doesn't purée her own pears or bake her own muffins.

jareth

Raging! :o