No More

Just wanted you to know I will no longer be making Ian's baby food. No more frantically boiling and pureeing green beans while Ian is impatiently banging his hands on his high chair tray. No more slicing yellow squash while Ian releases screams from the pit of his growling stomach. No more scrubbing the blender by hand because I ran out of pureed veggies before we ran the dishwasher.

But I am a little sad about it. Something about doing it all was fun to me. Not the screaming, and certainly not washing those tricky little blender blades. I think it was the 'organic' feel of it all. The feeling that I knew exactly what was going into Ian's body, and knowing that it was pure and wholesome, from foods that I had handpicked (from our local grocery).

And originally I thought making baby food would be an economical way to make sure Ian was getting healthy foods. Turns out that most foods are more expensive when you buy them fresh or frozen and make your own food out of them. Even more expensive than if you were to buy those cute little tubs of Gerber pureed foods. And that's not even accounting for my very precious time put into it. But I kept it up simply because I thought it was fun to make his food. But it stopped being fun last week, so now I am putting the blender back on the shelf. No more homemade baby food. And you know what? Ian likes the Gerber stuff better anyway. And we might actually save some money now.