Best Organic Baby Food Brands?

[Anonymous]

What baby food brands do you like the best? We will be starting DS on solids this week and I am going to pick some up. Just wondering what organic brands people like the best and what are the best places to buy them? Thanks!

[Anonymous]

I used Earth's Best but I wasn't religious about it. Target carries them, Whole Foods, Safeway I think. Giant does not carry EB. Diapers.com does.

[Anonymous]

i also used earth's best and ordered it from diapers.com (before amazon started their subscribe & save).

however, if you're really committed to organic, you might do better to just make your own. it's less expensive and i found that i could expose my DC to a lot more fruits and veggies than were available in jars. however i also started solids in the summer when the farmers markets were just bursting, so you'd have to go to an organic market. making baby food is seriously easy and 3 or 4 hours of one of your sundays will make you enough baby food to last at least a week or two. www.wholesomebabyfood.com is a great place to start.

[Anonymous]

OP here - Thanks - I am seriously considering making the baby food for my DS. I was just a little worried I wouldn't make it pureed enough for him at the start. I had heard it was better to give jarred food at first and then switch to homemade once he had the hang of it. I would love to just make it for him though - any tips on how I know if it is pureed enough for him at the start?

[Anonymous]

You could always buy a couple jars of stage 1 foods so you can see how pureed they are. I have made food once or twice and I mixed it with some breastmilk to get the consistency very thin and soupy.

[Anonymous]

We started with Earth's Best and Safeway organic brand. Target just started carrying Plum & Ella's and we just picked those up too. They're more $ but they have some different veggies and blends and I want to expose DD to as much different food as possible.

[Anonymous]

Earth's Best, mostly. Occasionally the Safeway Organics. This was all as an adjunct to what I made.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here - Thanks - I am seriously considering making the baby food for my DS. I was just a little worried I wouldn't make it pureed enough for him at the start. I had heard it was better to give jarred food at first and then switch to homemade once he had the hang of it. I would love to just make it for him though - any tips on how I know if it is pureed enough for him at the start?

Some families skip purees altogether, so I don't think you need to worry so much about having an exactly perfect consistency. The important thing is that everything be soft and mushy. If you're worried, run the foods through a ricer or strainer - that will ensure that you didn't miss any chunks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i also used earth's best and ordered it from diapers.com (before amazon started their subscribe & save).

however, if you're really committed to organic, you might do better to just make your own. it's less expensive and i found that i could expose my DC to a lot more fruits and veggies than were available in jars. however i also started solids in the summer when the farmers markets were just bursting, so you'd have to go to an organic market. making baby food is seriously easy and 3 or 4 hours of one of your sundays will make you enough baby food to last at least a week or two. www.wholesomebabyfood.com is a great place to start.

This reminds me of something. PP, I'm not saying you did, but people often get a little jumbled about all the pressures of healthy eating. Farmers market food is generally good because it is fresh and did not have to travel far. It is NOT necessarily organic, certified or otherwise. It may be, but it might also not be. Local, organic, sustainable, they are not all the same thing and they are not all guaranteed just because you bought the product outside.

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[Anonymous]

we love Mom Made- it's fresh frozen organic baby food. i think they are in most DC area Whole Foods frozen aisle.

[Anonymous]

I am making food on my own. Then I know that it's fresh and organic. You can also buy special shapes to freeze the food and it will save you time and money you can check my web site on www.ulalubin.com and ask me any questions

[Anonymous]

I'm one of the Earth's Best PPs.

I did make a lot of my own food, too, but there are some things I just saw no reason not to buy -- such as apples or pears. If Earth's Best is using organic apples and there's no other ingredients in it, why not just use it? It is more expensive, yes. Anyway, I got into a groove where I made some stuff, I seem to remember butternut squash, sweet potatoes, peaches, bananas, avacado, but bought other stuff, like peas, green beans, apples and pears. That's what worked well for me.

And yes you can start off with jarred or homemade purees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here - Thanks - I am seriously considering making the baby food for my DS. I was just a little worried I wouldn't make it pureed enough for him at the start. I had heard it was better to give jarred food at first and then switch to homemade once he had the hang of it. I would love to just make it for him though - any tips on how I know if it is pureed enough for him at the start?

Loved making my own baby food. The beaba was awesome. Not cheap but I made tons of purees. I liked knowing exactly what baby was eating. But, did use Ella's for travel on occassion. Like their fruit purees and I couldn't make them as good.

[Anonymous]

I've always made my own baby food. (Except for rice cereal and baby yogurt.)

I suggest you start with rice cereal. Get Earth's Best. Then once your baby gets the hang of rice cereal, you can introduce other foods. You can puree in a blender or a food processor. It's REALLY easy. Just try it. You'd be surprised by how easy it is.

Check out http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/ for some guidance.