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Originally Posted by Fran27

Yeah yogurts have too much sugar, although yo baby has reduced sugars so there isn't much more than in fruit stuff now... but still, that stuff is so crazy expensive... but it's not bad (yeah, I've tried it lol).

I bought a hand blender to make my own food... haven't started yet though, as we're just starting. I'll use some jars but not once we start mixing flavors (and adding meat). But we used it to make guacamole and the texture was pretty good.

Any tip on where to get cheap fruit? Can it be bought frozen? I'm just bummed because with the price of fruit it's just as expensive to buy the jars...

Buying fruit is NOT as expensive as the jars. Look at the first ingredient in jars...that's what there is the MOST of in there...WATER. Water is pretty cheap at my house. You puree and thin the stuff so much in the beginning. I bought 3 peaches and it made two trays of cubes (I freeze in ice cube trays) Each tray has 12 cubes, and Ty eats two cubes mixed with some cereal and formula at a meal. So three peaches made Tyler 12meals. The same amount of food would have cost me $6. Those 3 peaches weighted about a pound and cost me about $2. If you get a great sale, you can do it for even less. Right now I'm making tons of stuff to put up enough to get Ty through till he's on table food. Everything I've read and all the math I've done (tons...for almost every food you can imagine) points to jarred food costing 3X as much as doing it yourself.