My baby boy is now fully into the baby food stage of his little life! We have delved right into rice cereal, oatmeal, smashed peas and steamed carrots…all courtesy of Gerber 🙂
I do not make my own baby food. I know it’s simple and healthy, but have you checked Gerber’s ingredient’s lately? Just food, water, and citric acid. And you know what- I’m okay with that. I can barely get a home cooked dinner on the table every night, so I knew attempting to make my own baby food was just not in the cards for me. After all- I’m no super mom! Not even close!
That being said, we have an ABUNDANCE of baby food jars in my house. Now my husband already thinks I am a hoarder (I am FAR from it- I’m just frugal and like to save items for future use). So I have to start using these things before he tosses them and pulls the hoarder card on me…
Here’s a quick invitation to play I came up with to use some of those baby jars lids.
Materials:
* Muffin Tin
* Baby food jar lids (enough to fill the muffin tin)
* Magnetic wand (we actually did not have this, but it is on my list to use next time we do this activity!)


Aren’t those lids just too cute?!? |
The set-up:
You can choose to start by already having the lids in the muffin tray, or placing them aside and letting your munchkin figure it out on his/her own.


I started with the lids already in the tray. |
The Play:
As a fellow busy mom, I appreciate your openness and honesty about using pre-made baby food. Other than the citric acid (read: preservative), the food is the same as homemade, and doesn’t have to be made fresh every few days. Too often, I read blogs from SAHMs, and feel “lesser” for using things like disposable diapers and store-bought baby food.
Re: the activity; We’re past baby food from our youngest, but I will keep this in mind for the future!