Better Baby Food
My little guy just started eating baby food about a month ago. This is my second child, so we’ve done the baby food thing before. I made all of the baby food with our first child. I had more time then, and we tend to like the healthiest options we can find. We live in a small town so the only organic foods I can get here for baby food are apples, potatoes, some greens, bananas, peas, broccoli, some berries, and carrots. Not much. So I started buying some of the jarred organic baby foods – Earth’s Best and Gerber are the ones available – in flavors I couldn’t make.
I would still like to make the baby food this time around, but I just really don’t see it happening. I do have a couple of free hours in the afternoon and in the evenings when they’re both asleep, but I’d really like to do some reading or something else besides making baby food. So I’ve been buying the jarred organic baby food exclusively this time.
So one day this week I started looking around for better quality organic baby food than what I’ve been buying. Doing a little research online, I found out about frozen baby food, which is much healthier than the jarred stuff. It’s fresher, more flavorful, better nutrients, etc. Most of the brands I found are available at Whole Foods and some other grocery stores that are nowhere near our little town. One brand I found – Happy Baby is available at Super Target – also quite a drive, but it is closer. The Happy Baby cereals are available at Amazon. I only found one that would ship straight to your front door – Jack’s Harvest. Now that is a great option for me!
I can’t find out a lot in the way of pricing, but from what I can find, it looks like I pay about 19 cents per ounce for the organic jarred baby food and it’s around 50 cents per ounce for the frozen organic baby food. There’s always a price to pay for the good stuff, but in my opinion it’s worth it. I’ve yet to try some of this stuff, but as soon as Grandma and Grandad make a trip to the big city, I’m going to get them to pick up some Happy Baby varieties at Target for us. I’d still like to try Jack’s Harvest too.
Here are a few of the other brands I’ve found that you can look for when you’re out and about. There were some others, but the flavors were just a little too strange for me. I’d love to hear back from some of you if you’ve purchased the frozen organic baby food. Let me know about other brands, and your own personal – or your baby’s – opinion of what you’ve tried!
