Heaven bless my mother, for she passed the love of crocheting down to me. Although I am not as advanced in this art as she, it is still a joy to create something beautiful out of a ball of yarn. Blankets have been the only projects that I have dabbled in, unfortunately. I just finished this baby blanket for my friend Angie Hoffman's little baby girl, Karlie. She is going to be blessed this weekend in Rexburg and luckily I finally have it finished.
My other project that I have worked on this week is making baby food. I just thought I would share how much I save by making my own. So I bought this 32 oz. bag of frozen peas at Walmart for $1.94. After cooking the peas on the stovetop, I pureed them in my blender, adding some of the cooking water in to get the desired consistency. I strained the peas and then separated them into ice cube trays and froze them. From that one bag I got 33 pea cubes, and each cube is about 1 oz. or 1 serving for a young baby (for an older baby 2 cubes would be a serving). The price per ounce to make homemade peas is $0.06 and the price per ounce for Gerber peas is approximately $0.38. If a baby were to eat one ounce of homemade peas for a whole year it would cost $21.90 and it would cost about $138.70 if he ate one ounce of Gerber peas for a year. Anyways, I took some pics of the process of making baby food...
It may take some time but you same TONS of money when you make it yourself! When I first started making baby food for Kimball in 2007, I got the best information off of this website: www.wholesomebabyfood.com. Well, what are everyone's plans for the holiday weekend? Our family is going to be chilling in Rexburg all weekend, and we are even going camping! I'm excited...
It may take some time but you same TONS of money when you make it yourself! When I first started making baby food for Kimball in 2007, I got the best information off of this website: www.wholesomebabyfood.com. Well, what are everyone's plans for the holiday weekend? Our family is going to be chilling in Rexburg all weekend, and we are even going camping! I'm excited...
2 comments:
I absolutely LOVE that blankie! you'll have to share the pattern with me it is so cute! and I must say I have never heard of Pea ice cubes. Does the baby eat the ice cubes? or do you thaw them or something... that is probably a really dumb question.
I've always wanted to make my own baby food. Another thing on my list of goals for when I no longer work outside the home, which will hopefully be while Alex is still eating baby food. And since I will no longer be working, I will need to do those money saving home projects. As things are now I feel good if I can get the house moderately clean and get to spend some good quality time with the kids after work and on weekends. Thank heavens for Grandma Gwynnie.
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