While Heather was keeping her current pregnancy secret from me, she started paying heightened attention to products for young babies in a way that didn’t tip me off, due to our jobs as “mommy bloggers.” I thought she was just trying to keep up with changing trends and technologies for parents. When she accepted a Baby Bullet baby food-making machine for review, I did think it was a little weird because it’s the type of thing that takes up space in your house.
It comes with all these awesome accessories, so there’s an element of “How can I resist?” Agreed?
And so we embarked on a collaborative baby food making session to put this thing to the test in my kitchen. Having both made our own baby food in the past (but apparently using different methods) we didn’t really correct each other as we went along, leading to a bunch of assumptions and flawed methods, each of us assuming the other person knew what she was doing.
This moment was the highlight. Heather thought she was about to give a convincing demonstration of how the device is used. I cleaned up my kitchen for the occasion.
Whoops.
Thanks to Baby Bullet for sending their awesome baby food making kit to Heather so that she can feed her baby freshly pureed fruits and veggies. We believe the splattering was user error and not a flaw in the product.
I keep seeing the infomercials for this and it is SO ADORABLE. With the little faces on the storage cups…ugh they know how to sell a product.
I made all our baby food…and never purchased anything special, other than some ice cube trays since we didn’t already have any. But I found it was nice to make a larger batch at a time, and I even on a couple of occassions thought to puree some more than the rest, thus creating “stages” and labeling them as such. I cannot imaging using a device that would make so little food at a time, since it seems it would just take longer…or worse, just as much time, with less to show for it.
Then again, I was more of the “batch and freeze” method, and a lot of people prefer to make it fresh every few days, and simply store in the fridge. Those little cups sure would make it easier to bring baby food along on outings, too. So I guess it depends on your style. I think I can probably safely stick with what works for me for this next little one.
HIGH-larious! We’re starting food this weekend and I’m planning on making our baby food using a mini-cuisinart and ice cube trays. Any real reasons other than the cool accessories to go w/ the bullet, beaba or any other baby food maker?
I use a mini Cuisinart and immersion blender so I can do multiple flavors at once. I store in the Toys R Us brand trays which are super easy to use, individual containers. Its a nice combo cause you make in large batches but are storing in baby food containers. The trays are cheap, BPA free, etc.
I can’t see a reason to use a tiny blender like this when you could make larger batches. But then again, I did save it so ask me in several months.
i used the traditional magic bullet for my baby food and instantly got mom envy when I saw a friend of mine post a picture of her super cute baby bullet. I did a lot of big batches at first and continually replenished my freezer stockpile with whatever was left over from our nightly meals. It was great, super handy, didn’t take up as much space as a blender, and was really easy to wash (we don’t have a dishwasher 🙁 ) Unfortunately, it died after just 4 months of use. I learned that the magic bullet is super cool…but you have to be easy on it, or it won’t last long.
On the upside, the broken bullet allowed us to move to regular table food at 8 months…much sooner than I did with my jar fed first born.
@Rebeca, I love how you credit the BROKEN bullet with a smoother transition to table food.
I have a magic bullet and the warnings on the box to not use the engine for more than like 15 seconds at a time made me wonder about the Baby Bullet. I can’t help but question if they made it more robust.
I have a KidCo, which is basically the same thing, I think, since I also bought little baby food cups similar to the ones up there. I think the baby bullet is supposed to do the steaming too, though? which could be a nice feature.
I counted up how many things I puree’d the other day and I came up with 15 different things. and I still have a ton of cubes in the freezer… and my 8 month kiddo is on finger foods. So…… yeah – I’m glad I didn’t spend too much on the whole puree concept.
It’s very cute though. and if I had known about it back when I bought my KidCo, I might have bought it instead. because I’m a sucker for cute and my kid is spoiled.
… And i thought the only peril was it being so good you had to start your own business a la Baby Boom
The BabyBullet does not cook. There are a few recipes included in a cookbook.
Here’s a dirty little secret – babies don’t need purees. *SHOCK!!! AWE!!!* Historically speaking, baby’s first food was sucking/gnawing on a nice thick bone – lots of nutrients actually. My daughter never got purees and my life was so much easier for it. There are strong developmental arguments against purees. Check out “baby led weaning”.
Awesome video hahaha! I was making a video once and the blender BROKE when I put it on, splattering silken tofu (gross) EVERYWHERE. It was hilarious.
I love my baby bullet. My husband and I are going to use it for my son but I’ve already began using it for smoothies. 🙂