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What is the best way to thaw homemade baby food?
Posted by: Baby Food Grinder / Category: baby food questions, baby food warmerI’ve read enough about making baby food to know most moms seem to agree the easiest method is to make big batches and freeze it in serving sized cubes. Just one question- what method is best to thaw out the food at feeding time? It seems microwaving would defeat the purpose of making ‘better’ baby food. Do you thaw it in the fridge overnight? Put it in a saucepan with a little water? Some other method I haven’t thought of…?
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3 Responses to “What is the best way to thaw homemade baby food?”
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December 16th, 2009 at 10:03 am
I’d either thaw it in the fridge overnight or put it under the faucet with warm water running on it. Once you thaw it out though if you use warm water or the microwave I wouldn’t use it again, like refridgerate it and use it again the next day.
December 16th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Put it in a sauce pan with hot water it won’t take that long to thaw.
January 15th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Easiest for me is to thaw in fridge overnight. I find that thawing only what I need (a few cubes, a few single servings) works better than thawing the whole tray. I like to store some of the batch in silicone ice trays and the rest of the batch in small BPA-free snap-lid containers so that they are ready to go if I’m in a rush. When our baby was still easting purees, I also used one of the chambers in my formula canister for HappyBellies cereal in on-the-go situations. I could fortify a puree and give baby a little more substance by mixing a little cereal into her meal.