How To Free Up Time In The Kitchen By Freezing Child Meals

Is your child prepared for tender meals? Are you desirous to make tender meals for her at residence?

Making selfmade child meals for our Little One was one thing that my husband and I agreed upon early on. We knew we needed to supply our child with the very best nutritional vitamins and vitamins we might.

So we did simply that. We made selfmade child meals. On a regular basis. For a couple of week and a half.

It’s not that making selfmade child meals is difficult. It simply took extra time than we needed to spend, day in and day trip. So we determined that if we had been going to proceed offering our child with the very best then we had been going to need to give you a brand new plan.

So we determined to freeze child meals. As a substitute of spending about 20 minutes to an hour begin to end on a regular basis, or each couple of days, we’d spend a few hours as soon as a month and put together meals to avoid wasting and use later.

Freezing child meals makes life a lot simpler as a result of:

As a result of puree recipes range, I’m not going to incorporate cooking objects on this record. This record is ONLY what you’ll want for the freezing course of:

If you happen to don’t have entry to the ice dice or freezer trays you should use different strategies. These are usually not as area pleasant, however they are going to get the job achieved.

You’ll need to make your child meals puree first. We normally cook dinner 2 fruits, 2 veggies, and 1 meat and make 16oz (one pound) of every. Use recipes you like, or if you’re searching for new recipes, or that is your first time I like to recommend going to wholesomebabyfood.com. This web site has a whole lot of nice recipes in your child.

To make it time environment friendly we arrange a system, an meeting line if you’ll. Whereas I cook dinner, my husband cools after which purees. We name this the ‘one pot methodology’ as a result of it helps create much less dishes so we’re not spending our day cooking and cleansing.

Nearly any meals you cook dinner may be frozen and thawed for later consuming, nevertheless, there are some meals that freeze higher than others. Here’s a record of the meals that freeze the very best:

So you’ve got made your puree and it got here out to an ideal consistency. Now what?

Now it’s time to place it within the ice dice tray or freezing container. Fill every dice with the puree till the tray is full. You’ll do that for every meals you could have ready. 

If you happen to’re utilizing plastic ice dice trays then cooling the puree earlier than filling them is beneficial. Placing sizzling meals right into a plastic tray may cause chemical substances from the tray to get into the meals. If you happen to’re utilizing a silicone or chrome steel tray then this can be a non-issue.

One more reason for cooling first is placing sizzling meals into the freezer, particularly for those who’re placing in a number of trays, can alter the temperature contained in the freezer which can trigger micro organism to growand have an effect on the meals you’re placing in together with the remainder of the meals already within the freezer. It doesn’t need to be ‘chilly’, you simply don’t need it to be too sizzling to the place it’s steaming.

If you happen to’re utilizing a muffin pan you’ll fill the cups the identical because the ice dice trays. If you happen to’re utilizing a baking sheet you’ll use a spoon or small ice cream scoop and put dollops of puree on the sheet (as for those who had been making a batch of cookies). When utilizing a baking sheet you need to ensure that your puree isn’t too runny. Wholesomebabyfood.com reveals an excellent instance of the consistency you need in your child meals if utilizing a baking sheet.

Earlier than you set your trays into the freezer you’ll need to cowl them. If you happen to’re utilizing ice dice trays that don’t have a lid you’ll need to use both aluminum foil or plastic wrap to cowl the trays. If protecting a baking sheet you’ll need to loosely cowl it in order that it doesn’t persist with the puree throughout freezing.

After you’ve lined your trays you’ll need to label them earlier than placing them into the freezer, particularly you probably have meals that look related (i.e. candy potatoes and carrots). Labeling can also be helpful for those who’re going to make this a two or three day occasion. You’ll want to label the date at which you set them within the freezer.

Enable your puree to freeze for about 24 hours. Simply as you’ll test with ice, you need to make certain it’s fully frozen earlier than transferring it out of the trays.

As soon as your puree is totally frozen you’ll need to take it out of the trays and put it in your gallon measurement baggies. It will assist save room in your freezer in addition to releasing up your trays for the following spherical of puree cubes.

You probably have a tough time getting your cubes out of the trays you possibly can fill the underside of your sink with heat water to set the trays in. It will barely heat up the tray sufficient to loosen the cubes with out thawing them.

Fill every bag with every tray of cubes. Label every bag with the puree title and the date they’re put within the freezer. You’ll be able to freeze child meals for 3-6 months, nevertheless, it’s beneficial to make use of the meals inside 1-3 months to ensure the style high quality of the meals.

At about 6 months outdated infants eat between 6-8 oz of strong meals a day. The ice dice trays are typical 1oz every cubes making it simpler when portioning meals in your child.

If you’re able to thaw your puree take as many cubes as you suppose you may want for meals for 1-3 days. As soon as thawed the infant meals will final a most of 72 hours.

Strategies of thawing are:

NEVER refreeze thawed child meals! This may trigger meals poisoning.

NEVER retailer child meals in a container that your child has been consuming out of! This may additionally trigger meals poisoning.

As a mother or father, I’m positive you possibly can consider 1,000,000 different issues you can be doing along with your time than spending it within the kitchen on a regular basis making selfmade child puree. That’s the reason my husband and I made a decision to begin freezing our child’s meals. We had been nonetheless capable of present high quality meals and meals for our child with out having to sacrifice our time and vitality.

You shouldn’t have to decide on between wholesome, selfmade meals in your child or spending extra time with your loved ones having enjoyable, or simply enjoyable. Begin freezing child meals at this time and revel in these further minutes with that Little One (as a result of as you and I do know, they develop up so quick).