Healthy Baby Food

Eating healthy is not so simple any more.

Karen and I have always painstakingly made Lia’s food out of fresh vegetables, meat and fruits, but one day Karen questioned the practice, pointing out that the ingredients of organic baby food consisted of nothing but the organic fruit and water. So what’s the difference between what we’re made and what’s in a jar? What’s the big deal with buying baby food and taking it easy in the kitchen?

It depends on if you desire slapping tasteless, innutritious pile of goo in your baby’s mouth, according to my buddy Google, uh.. I mean, Live Search®.  Processed food typically needs to be cooked in high temperatures to kill all bacteria to preserve it, and that process kills more than just bacterias, but nutrients and taste as well. In fact, even different cooking process in the kitchen, such as the use of a microwave, steaming, boiling, and baking can change the nutritional value of food, but the process is shorter at home.

Now natural meat has a whole other set of considerations. For seafood there’s pesticide in farmed animals, and mercury for wild fish and shellfish, which affects brain development. For chicken and beef there’s hormones and pesticides, and even if it’s labeled “all natural” it, we might be eating clones in the future. The safer route is buying organic food, which is held to a higher standard, but even that has its own caveats.

I do admit we have a few baby food jars for the… umm… occasional emergency use and the jar reuse, but one thing’s for sure, Lia will be getting nothing but the fresh, good stuff!