why homemade?

Here are my findings (copyrighted):


* Jarred food is up to ten times more expensive than homemade baby food.

* Homemade baby food is more nutritious than commercially prepared baby food, because it is fresher and much less processed.

* Jarred baby food has a shelf life of up to three years. (What?!)

* Even when jarred food is labeled both preservative-free and organic, the reason it can have a shelf life of three years is because it's been heated to such an enormous degree that no bacteria can survive in it. But guess what? Vitamins and minerals can't survive in that kind of heat, either! So, most of the nutrition has been leached out of jarred food during that preservation process.

* The second six months of life is the only window of opportunity you have to develop your baby's taste buds. Commercial baby foods are bland and tasteless. How can children develop any sense of taste if they start out with foods that don't have any?

* There is a certain level of acceptable "non-food" ingredients that can turn up in your jarred baby food. These include bug parts, rodent hairs, rodent droppings, and more. These non-food ingredients are an acceptable standard in the food processing industry.

* No starchy fillers, no hidden salt or sugar, and no scary "non-food" surprises ... just your hand-picked ingredients.

* Just as adults shouldn't eat every meal from a drive-thru, can, or box, it's not healthy for babies and toddlers to consume processed, packaged baby foods more than on rare occasions. Jarred food should be the exception, not the norm for feeding your baby.