Freezing Baby Food

[Kat]

Hi,
we are just starting solids and have come across the insanity of the huge servings in baby food tins (we bought a couple of 100% friut tins)

Does anyone know if this food can be opened and then frozen to be served later?

Kat

[sarahs]

I'd never really thought about whether you "should" freeze your baby food!!! Oops! :confused: From the time I started my son on solids I made batches of mashed vegies or mashed tinned pie apples and froze them in separate ice cube trays before popping them in other containers. I found the ice cube trays great as I could get out 1 serve of each vegie when he was still eating small amounts. I know a few other mums who do this and I can't see why there would be any harm in doing so.

S

[Kat]

As soon as the weekend rolls around and I get some baby-free-ish time in the kitchen I plan on freezing foods that I've cooked from scratch, but today opened a tin of pears to feed my daughter - it says throw out what isn't used..but surely you can freeze this stuff the same as you would fresh cooked foods?

I don't know. Maybe you can't because of it already being 'pre-packaged' ??

Hence the question

Kat :eek:

[Kat]

Oh dear,

today not only did I see that you mentioned that you also freeze the tinned variety of food but I opened up one of the books I have lying around and mostly being unread and it says "freeze away" about tinned foods

Just as well :D

[ziggi]

it says throw out what isn't used..but surely you can freeze this stuff the same as you would fresh cooked foods?


What I was told by the early childhood nurse is that it has to do with bacteria from the mouth being transfered from the baby to the batch of food you're feeding from (whether that's from a jar or bowl or whatever) with the spoon.

The theory is that this bacteria can affect the flavour and impact on the freshness of the food. Often the saved portion of food is rejected by baby because it doesn't taste right.

Therefore, if you only used a small portion of the tinned food by putting it into a bowl/container first, you could freeze the rest.

Z.

[ziggi]

With ds I did the cook-in-bulk-and-freeze-into-ice-cube-trays method of preparing solids. This worked really well as I could mix and match different veggies for each feed.

With #2 on the way, I'm not sure if I'll be as disciplined second time around. I was wondering if anyone had tried "Motherly Cubes" (available in the freezer section of most supermarkets) as an alternative. Are they just as good as if I made them myself? The ingredients list seems to suggest that the veggies are JUST veggies with no additives, but is that true? I'm not sure about their meat versions though...

Z.