If you are concerned about the ingredients used in baby food or simply can't afford it. Then make your own! It is so easy you'll wonder why you haven't done it before. Usually when baby begins to eat food they start off with easy to digest food. What and when to feed baby food has changed over and over again, but a good rule of thumb is, begin with vegetables easy on the tummy, like carrots, squash, and sweet potato. If you teach your child to eat veggies first, then it will become a lifelong food that is acceptable to your child. If you feed them fruits and sugary stuff then why on earth would he or she eat their veggies? They will always want the sugary stuff.
So you can use a blender or food processor to blend up your veggies after you have steamed them till done. Plain, no salt, with just enough water or breast milk to puree them is best. Then simply pour them into ice cube trays and freeze. When frozen pop them out and put into freezer bags squeezing as much air out of the bag as you can. Then when it is dinner time just take out one cube and gently warm in a small pan on the stove. I don't ever recommend microwaving baby's food, and especially NOT their formula. Always heat it up in a bowl of hot water or on the stove for short periods of time and always test it yourself to make sure it is not too hot for baby.
As baby grows you can add different veggies and then introduce fruit. Then when he or she is a toddler you can start pulsing your own dinner in the food processor and finally letting them eat table food when they can chew well.
I read an article once that said women used to chew the food for the baby then sort of regurgitate it into baby's mouth. I guess we've come a long way?
For more info: articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/21/Some-Baby-Foods-are-Worse-Than-Junk-Food.aspx
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