100 million of us Americans will make new years resolutions this year (that’s 1/3 of us!) A majority of those resolutions will be to lose weight or eat healthier. Have we thought about healthier eating for our children? Look back at 2008, did you introduce solid foods? Do you feel you have you been making the best choices for them when it comes to what is going into their mouths? We all know it’s hard to find the time to prepare healthy, nutritious meals but think of it this way…in the half hour (ok…maybe an hour at first) that it takes to watch your favorite television show you can prepare your baby healthy foods for the whole week. If making your own baby food has been something you have been thinking about, you’re in the right place. Kelly has been making baby food since Emilia started solids, and after feeding her many of her meals I have to tell you it smells better, tastes better (I had to try the sweet potatoes) and is nutritionally better for her. While we were at the ABC Show in Vegas, we got to demo the Beaba cook. It was only available at Williams Sonoma at the time and as soon as we could get it delivered to us we did.

At Bellani we took out the guesswork to help you get started. One of the greatest inventions in the history of baby-food making would have to be the Beaba 4-in-1 steam cooker-blender. The Beaba functions in 4 ways: It steams, blends, reheats, and even defrosts. Can you imagine only having to clean 1 container? We think it’s amazing. Aside from consolidating all of the steps for baby food making, you can be assured that by preparing the food via this method you are preserving as many vitamins and minerals as possible as opposed to microwaving or other preparatory methods.

If an all-in-one appliance sounds a little too intimidating, there is also the KidCo Food Mill available in electric as well as manual.
KidCo also has a great selection of other baby food preparing gadgets like the Healthy Snack multi-slicer that will stand to be useful even after your “baby” is a baby (I use my multi-slicer at home to make baked sweet potatoes fries…so delicious!)

Eating healthy isn’t always easy. But now there are tools to make it easier, faster and less expensive (I still can’t believe how much those little jars cost, not to mention the frozen ones at Whole Foods). The decision to make your own baby food is a personal choice and you might find that not only is your baby is eating healthier, but you are too! What a great resolution.