How Do I Make & Prepare Frozen Peas for My 6Th Month Old? Other Veggie Recipes?

Hello, J.,

Enjoy those ORGANIC frozen peas right from the freezer! Cooking them destroys the rest of the living enzymes that are the beneficial aspect of eating this food to begin with. They are the most nutritious this way and kids LOVE them frozen!

I am a food coach and had given a class for parents on nutrition. One excited mom come back to report that her child loved the frozen peas while she had not been able to get him to eat veggies ever before.

I will be happy to send you "88 Recipes That Heal". These are nutrient-rich, simple, tasty recipes for you and your family.

By the way, J., your little one chose well!

My very best to you,

T.

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You should totally check out the book, "Super Baby Food" by Ruth Yaron. It is such a lifesaver and will answer all your questions about starting babies on solids, including what to introduce, when to introduce it, how to prepare it, and how to store it! A fantastic book! Also, check out this website. It has great recipies too. Good luck! http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/

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I would cook the peas in boiling water, then blend then freeze. But, aren't carrots a big no no to make at home? I think super baby food goes into that-carrots and spinach. I had that book, and I would swear those are 2 not to do.

I didn't read that part of the book until after I had already steamed, pureed, and refrozen a ton of peas in ice cube trays. My kids ate them and nothing bad happened. I suppose peas are just one of those things that should be made and eaten right away. But as I said, no ill came to anyone in my house!

I have the TOP 100 BABY PUREES book too and love it. Although we haven't tried peas yet. My pediatrician made her baby food too and she didn't follow all the unfreeze and reheat restrictions and didn't have a problem. So far I've made Broccli, Green Beans and Spinach. The first batch plain steamed in the microwave and the all later batches I added unsalted butter (per the cookbook). Baby loves it! We also do sweet potatoes and apples. In general I freeze in icecube trays store in ziplocks and pull out the cubes each morning for that day into little tupperware lidded bowls. Sometimes I serve cold, others room temperature (let it sit out on counter for a while). Rarely do I microwave it hot and let it cool down like the directions say. Good Luck!

I make all of my babies food and I love it. He is 6 months old as well. I bought a great book from Williams Sonoma called Baby Food and it had simple recipies as well as unique ones for when they get to be 9 months and older. I am fanatic about NOT giving jarred food and I want everything to be all natural. The basic way to make peas is steam them on the stove with a little bit of water on the bottom and then use that water when you put the peas in the food processor. I use the Beaba Baby Cook from Williams Sonoma because it is made especially for making baby food. It steams, grinds and re-heats all in one!

Hi! I pureed frozen peas and refroze them with both my kids and never had a problem. Some other favorites have been zucchini, yellow squash, butternut squash, green beans, blueberries, pears, apples, broccoli, and cauliflower. My son like asparagus, but my daughter didn't! I used the wholesomebabyfood dot com as my reference guide.

I will boil all my daughters veggies in chicken broth. That makes it taste yummy for the kids.
Good luck!

We used dried peas as legumes, ground them with a grain (wheat, quinoa, rice, barley, etc.), and used them as the cereal base of the baby's food. The grain & legume combination sets up a protien. Grind them in a coffee grinder, then cook. Add other veggies to that.

Frozen peas are great to just put down as a snack (in very small amounts) when she gets just a little older (my own idea -- don't know whether other moms or the Super Baby Food book would agree). My sons loved them to snack on, and the coldness helped in the heat and during teething (my younger son was late getting his teeth).

That is so awesome that you are making your own food. I made all of my little ones own food and now she is the best eater. I did refreeze peas though........hmmm, maybe I shouldn't have but she ate enough other stuff anyway. Here is a great website for homemade baby food:
http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/

hurrah for using the super baby food book!!! i still use it and my dd is over 1. i agree with the other reader that i did re-freeze frozen food. just be really aware of keeping everything clean and germ free and don't do it with meat or eggs as baby learns how to eat those. as your baby gets bigger you will find that you freeze less and begin to find easy ways to make 1 or 2 portions at a time. for ideas on what to make you should just google natural baby food and use their combinations as inspiration or go to whole foods and look in their baby section. also, go to your grocery store and get empty glass jelly jars. they have short fat ones that are perfect for 2 cubes of food. yes, they occasionally break (make sure keep their tops off when you are thawing in hot water) but they are better than thawing them in the nuker (BAD) or in unsafe plastic.
yogurt and prunes were my bebe's fave! actually... yogurt and anything was a winner.

Try giving them to her whole. Can she pick up food with a pincer grasp? If she can do cheerios, try whole peas. It was one of my daughter's favorite finger foods!

Hi J.,

It's so great that you are making home made meals for your baby. I was a personal chef before staying home full time with our little one who is 3 years old now. I'm not sure why your cook book tells you not to refreeze the peas. But my thoughts are they will lose nutrients if they were frozen, cooked, frozen again, and warmed again. Also, if your recipe has you defrost the frozen peas in the microwave it is not safe to refreeze something that has been defrosted in the microwave. I never had a problem refreezing frozen pea puree made from frozen peas. However when I warmed it again the peas had a little more gritty texture and my daughter didn't like it as much. I fixed that by combining a little sweet potato puree to the peas and freezing it that way. Make sure you introduce one vegetable or fruit at a time to watch for food allergies. Once you know what is safe for your baby to eat then go ahead with mixing purees.

Have fun!

I just barely cover them with water and boil them. Stick them in the blender and make sure to use the water it was boiled in to keep the vitamins in. The book I have, Top 100 Baby Purees says it is fine to freeze them. I use tupperware or ice trays. Try green beans and sweet potatoes. I peeled the sweet potatoes and cubed them and cooked them the same way. I also add a tiny bit of unsalted butter to carrots. I guess the nutrients are absorbed better when cooked with a little fat. I love this book there are tons of ideas. It is written by Annabel Karbel. Not sure if you have tried them yet, but my DD loves pears. I just peel the pears, cube them and cook them in a pan for 4 to 6 minutes and blend them. Good luck.

Hi J.,
I'm also making all of my baby's food for him. I've done frozen peas and stored the puree in ice trays plenty of times with no ill effects. I've also made plums, pears, apples, nectarines, apricots, green beans, butternut squash, zucchini, and yellow squash. The only food he didn't care for was nectarines for some reason, but he did eat them if I combined them with mashed banana. =)

http://www.amazon.com/Top-100-Baby-Purees-Healthy/dp/0743...
that's a link to amazon for a cookbook.

this is a really cool product. don't know what your budget is though. they also have a cookbook for this brand. you can find it on williams-sonoma website with a video demonstration of the product as well. i'm having my 4th, never made baby food but am looking into this product. i can also use it to incorporate pureed veggies into other foods for my older kids (have you seen the cookbook deceptively delicious?)

http://www.amazon.com/Williams-Sonoma-Beaba-Babycook/dp/B...

I used frozen organic peas, steamed them well (will need soft texture, then pureed them with the remaining steaming water (I use the Kidco electric baby food mill and the accompanying freezer trays) and froze them in 2 oz portions in the covered trays. My then 6 month old seemed to like them. I just recently tried canned peas (make sure no added salt, sugar, etc.) without cooking them, pureed well with water and my now 10 month old son seems to like those peas even better. I pretty much steam, puree and freeze all of his veggies, such as acorn squash, butternut squash, green beans (again, he seems to like canned better), asparagus (mostly just tips), corn, sweet potatoes (baked only), broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, sunburst squash and pattypan squash. I then keep a "filing" system of the pre-bagged frozen veggie portions to thaw/use quickly and easily.

I LOVE that book. My kiddo is 6 nd we still get lots of useful info from it. The only way I would refreeze frozen veggies or fruit is if I cooked it thoroughly first.

IHTH

Hi there.. I use the fresh start cworkbook. I make peas the easy way. I buy the steambags frozen peas. I steam it according to the directions. then I grind it up using a little water to loosen it and spoon it into the easy baby covered freezer trays and done. to reheat I put one cube in a dish and microwave 30 sec. I do the same with many vegetables. I steam everything instead of boiling, as to not loose any nutrients. I use a microwave steamer and do butternut squash, yellow squash. sweet potatos and yams, apples, pears, peaches, carrots, and the list goes on. I really like the above mentioned cookbook it is very informative. Good luck.

Hi J., I have never heard about not refreezing vegetables, I use canned pears, green beans and frozen corn and i use my magic bullet to make home made baby food for the baby's in my daycare, I try and make what i need for the day, if you use the canned, then you can jar it and take it out as you need it, at 6 months you can even do pastas, I do, potatos, cause in potatos you can put spinach, brocolli, vegis that most kids don't like, in potatos you can pretty much get anything down a child. hope this helps, This is what my mom did when we were babies, my mom would cambles soups, she would open then up pour them is bowl or some typw of jar and when you chill it then grese and most of the sodium rises to the top, my mom would remove it and blend it up and one can a soup went a long way, and she said it was cheaper back in the day than baby food, she did that will all 5 of us, and she raised 5 healthy babies. J. L.

I honestly don't know too much about frozen peas, but I would suggest don't make very much at a time. You can puree for that night and one other meal to store in a baby food jar in the fridge.

When my son was 6 months I pureed foods that I made for a meal (like green bean casserole, pasta or fruit). Although you shouldn't do this until you are sure your baby doesn't have any allergies. I also was able to give my son dairy so I would mix fruit in yogurt.

I have made peas for my daughter and I used the no salt frozen peas, cooked them and then put them in blender and then re-freezed them. They seemed fine and never bothered by little girls tummy. They are actually one of her favorites. I wouldn't worry about it. The color stayed the same and tasted the same. I also make sweet potatos, carrots, white sweet potatos, squash by steaming them and then just blending and putting in ice cube trays. I find my little girl likes them chunky though so now I just mash them instead of blending. I have also been buying canned pears and peaches in juice, not heavy syrup and using them strait from the can. Seems to work good. Bananas and avacados are great because you don't have to cook them. Although my little on only likes banana chunks and not mushed. It is all just trial and error. It took sometimes 10 tries before she would eat much of the peaches and fruit, they tend to be tart.

I like to make butternut and zucchini. I just peel them, steam them and strain them...my 7 month old loves it

My son loves Beets
I boiled them and then blended them. At first he was just interested in them because of the color but then he would yell when I would not feed it to him quick enough. But remember not to feed to much as you may find a red color in the diaper. He is not bleeding inside its just the beets.

My trick for other foods is to use organic maple syrup in foods that may be too tart. When I do apple sauce I add some organic cloves and organic cinn.

Oh almost forgot, my son loves strawberries. I cook them down then strain them using a nylon to get the seeds out. If its to tart I use a little maple syrup.

(all suggestions are with organic foods only)