How To Save Money Making And Growing Healthy Baby Food

Ever though of growing healthy baby food?

I can already hear you from here - "I haven't got room, I haven't got time". But believe me you have - both.

How to use a window sill to grow organics

Even if all you have is a window sill you can grow herbs and green leaves - a packet of Italian Mix, a window box and some compost and you are away. No weeding. No digging. With just a daily check and occasional watering you can have a feast of leaves to pick as and when you want. For the more daring tomatoes can easily be grown on a window sill.

Organic food is grown without pesticides and chemical fertilizers...

and as long as you avoid those, you can be sure that your baby will be avoiding them too.

Growing healthy baby food using only a patio or balcony

A patio or balcony and you can put up a mini greenhouse - the kind made of a frame of plastic rods with a sort of plastic umbrella. With two of these, bought very cheaply, I know of friends who have kept a family of four supplied with greenery of various kinds including spinach, lamb's lettuce, herbs, lettuce and various members of the bean family. In warmer weather you just open the canopy to allow the bean flowers to be fertilized... and there you are.

When you have lots of space

A little more space and you can grow fruit - whether directly into the soil or in pots. Our friends have a tiny garden, but manage rhubarb, black currants, red currants, strawberries, raspberries, tay berries, cherries, apples, gooseberries and this year - for the first time - one pear!

Depending upon where you are you could try other fruits such as kiwi fruits or nectarines. There are fruit trees for small spaces- either those that grow on very short branches, often called ballerina trees, or those that can be espalied - i.e. grown flat on wires. If you haven't got much room do make sure that the variety you choose is self fertile or your apple tree will be covered in delightful blossom, but will yield no fruit unless your neighbor also has apple trees.

You can even buy what are called step over apple bushes that can be used as edging as well as apple and plum trees that have more than one variety grafted onto the stem. Growing health baby food without artificial fertilizers does not of course mean never feeding your plants , but I've seen that some well rotted compost forked in occasionally does the job.

Making healthy baby food

If you are blessed with lots of fruit you can of course bottle it, but if you have a freezer that is easier for a busy household. There is plenty of advice available about how to go about it. Two quick options are to read 4 Easy-to-Make Organic Baby Food Recipes and The Kidco Happy Baby Food Mill.

Some fruits, such as apples and cherries will preserve their texture and others change e.g. strawberries. A frozen strawberry will never be the same as a fresh one, but can be equally delicious. I freeze mine in boxes with layers of sugar, but others open freeze them on trays before packing. You can reuse the sugar when making cakes.

Frozen raspberries or strawberries mixed into yoghurt are delicious or you can use the pureed fruit to make fruit sauces to serve with ice-cream or to fill cakes. Add a little sugar or honey as needed.

Bottom line is... get out the seed catalogue and off you go... start making and growing healthy baby food!

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