Last fall I had a little too much fun making dehydrated baby food. For how to make your own, check the first post on carrots and this one where I made more from squash, pumpkin, and sweet potato. Well, baby brother is finally big enough to be eating solids, so we’ve been using some of our dehydrated baby food.
This stuff is slick. It mixes with hot water like baby cereal. In fact, so far I’ve just been mixing it in with baby brother’s cereal. I get to choose how much I put in and there’s no waste. And it’s easy.
Put the powdered baby food in the bowl with or without cereal, formula, etc.
Add hot water and stir. Get enough water in and stir enough that you know you’ve got it all re-hydrated. Taste it if you want to check for any graininess. I haven’t had any problem as long as I stirred it up good.
After you’ve got it all mixed up, feed your baby. Yummy. Well, as yummy as squash mixed with rice cereal ever was. Super easy, travels well, and no waste. Now that was a fun experiment. We’re loving the instant baby food powder!
Keep preparing! Angela
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I’m interested to know about the nutrition factor. Any data on this?
I don’t have any data on it. Not sure what the cooking and dehydrating takes out of the original food if anything, but there’s nothing added, it’s just squash, sweet potato, etc. dried and powdered.
I’m going to Mexico and I’ve been dehydrating like crazy to have enough food for my 8-month old son to last two weeks. I’m having math challenges, though. If my baby typically eats about 4 ounces of food three times a day (I know, he’s a hoover), then how much powder would I need? I calculated he eats about 6 TBSP of the pureed food/day, but I can’t seem to figure out how much that means he would need of the powder. I currently have 12 TBSP of carrots, 13 TBSP of bananas, 26 TBSP of sweet potatoes and I’m making pears and some squash.
Can you help since you’ve done this a lot before? I looked at your measurements, but don’t want to experiment too much because I don’t want to waste any of the powder before our trip for fear I won’t have time to make more.
Thank you!!!!
Hi Helenita! That will be a fun trip! Depending on which food it is, it will take 1-2 tsp of powder to make an ounce (2 TB) of reconstituted food. I’d calculate using 2 tsp per ounce just to be safe. If he’s eating 6 TB of puree per day (in addition to his other foods) then you’ll need 6 tsp (2 TB) of dry powder per day. If he’s eating the equivalent of a 4 oz jar in one meal, it’s about 8 tsp (2 TB plus 2 tsp) dry powder per 4 oz of food. Times that by 3 meals/day if the dehydrated food is all he’ll be eating and it’s about 8 TB of powder per day. Hope that helps! Enjoy your trip and let me know if I can help more! :)