How do you take home-made baby food when going out?

I make most of my baby's food at home, except for jarred carrot puree
because of the nitrates. I've decided to now also make the carrot
puree myself, because I feel the potential threat of nitrate poisoning
is lesser than the proven threat of semicarbazide contamination in
jarred foods.

Anyway, when we go out with the baby we always bring the commercial
jarred carrot puree with us (she's seven months now, and still eats
'first foods'). My question is, how should I store home-made food when
I go out, given that I don't have a fridge with me? Thanks!

"Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward" wrote:

I make most of my baby's food at home, except for jarred carrot puree
because of the nitrates. I've decided to now also make the carrot
puree myself, because I feel the potential threat of nitrate poisoning
is lesser than the proven threat of semicarbazide contamination in
jarred foods.

Anyway, when we go out with the baby we always bring the commercial
jarred carrot puree with us (she's seven months now, and still eats
'first foods'). My question is, how should I store home-made food when
I go out, given that I don't have a fridge with me? Thanks!

You could get those frozen packs and a lunch bag & keep it in there?

http://www.amazon.com/Insulated-Cool...&s=home-garden

http://www.amazon.com/Techni-ICE-She...sporting-goods

rj

Rebecca Jo wrote:
"Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward" wrote:

I make most of my baby's food at home, except for jarred carrot puree
because of the nitrates. I've decided to now also make the carrot
puree myself, because I feel the potential threat of nitrate poisoning
is lesser than the proven threat of semicarbazide contamination in
jarred foods.

Anyway, when we go out with the baby we always bring the commercial
jarred carrot puree with us (she's seven months now, and still eats
'first foods'). My question is, how should I store home-made food when
I go out, given that I don't have a fridge with me? Thanks!

You could get those frozen packs and a lunch bag & keep it in there?

http://www.amazon.com/Insulated-Cool...&s=home-garden

http://www.amazon.com/Techni-ICE-She...sporting-goods

rj

Problem solved! Thanks so much!!

I'd recommend the 'hard' ice packs over the 'plastic bag filled
with gel' ones which IME tend to tear and leak.

Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward wrote:

Anyway, when we go out with the baby we always bring the commercial
jarred carrot puree with us (she's seven months now, and still eats
'first foods'). My question is, how should I store home-made food when
I go out, given that I don't have a fridge with me? Thanks!

The ice packs should work, but I wouldn't invest too
much effort in the case, as it won't be long before you can
just pack finger foods or give her bits of whatever you're
eating.

Best wishes,
Ericka

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"Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward" wrote:

Anyway, when we go out with the baby we always bring the commercial
jarred carrot puree with us (she's seven months now, and still eats
'first foods'). My question is, how should I store home-made food when
I go out, given that I don't have a fridge with me? Thanks!

At that age, don't bother. There is no pressing need to feed her solids at
every meal (it's usually only once or twice a day at that age), so just feed
her at a time that is more convenient to you. Much less messy in public, too.

For an older child, pack non-perishable food, like rusks and sultanas. It
will be handy whenever you are caught somewhere longer than you had planned.

Later still, give your baby whatever appears suitable from your own plate.

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

"Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You may
start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled."
Kerry Cue

My ten-month-old is now mostly on finger foods, but when I needed to
take some homemade with us somewhere I would use containers if I was
going somewhere where I had access to heating it up; otherwise, I used
the other kids' miniature lunch thermos that we happened to have for
home lunches for school. It kept things warmed the way I heated them at
home until I used them while out, and the fruits I just left at room
temperature (although I did inadvertantly give baby a brainfreeze when
my blueberry-banana mixture wasn't quite thawed enough - poor baby).
lol. They are expensive, but if you can manage to save it for when
schooltime comes around, it isn't a loss. lol. I found ours in the
lunchbox section of our local store. DS's is HotWheels, and DD's is
Barbie.


Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward wrote:
I make most of my baby's food at home, except for jarred carrot puree
because of the nitrates. I've decided to now also make the carrot
puree myself, because I feel the potential threat of nitrate poisoning
is lesser than the proven threat of semicarbazide contamination in
jarred foods.

Anyway, when we go out with the baby we always bring the commercial
jarred carrot puree with us (she's seven months now, and still eats
'first foods'). My question is, how should I store home-made food when
I go out, given that I don't have a fridge with me? Thanks!

"Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward"

My question is, how should I store home-made food when
I go out, given that I don't have a fridge with me? Thanks!

Stick a banana in your purse. You can even throw the container away when
you're done :-D.

Sadly my older kids wouldn't eat banana. I hope the twins do.
I usually ordered mashed potatoes or something. By the time they were old
enough to care if they ate, they could eat from my plate. Before that I
just didn't feed them when we were out. How bad is that, lol.


--
Nikki, mama to
Hunter 4/99
Luke 4/01
Brock 4/06
Ben 4/06

Personally, I wouldn't bother with bringing home-made baby food. I would
just bring finger foods like Cheerios or other small foods and be done with
it.
--
Sue (mom to three girls)

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I make most of my baby's food at home, except for jarred carrot puree
because of the nitrates. I've decided to now also make the carrot
puree myself, because I feel the potential threat of nitrate poisoning
is lesser than the proven threat of semicarbazide contamination in
jarred foods.

Anyway, when we go out with the baby we always bring the commercial
jarred carrot puree with us (she's seven months now, and still eats
'first foods'). My question is, how should I store home-made food when
I go out, given that I don't have a fridge with me? Thanks!

For MDO, when my daughter was that stage (which was very short lived-she
moved to wanting to feed herself at about the same time she started), I used
the little rubbermaid containers (which I also used to freeze the food in
the first place). Since the school had a refrigerator and could warm
bottles, they could heat the food up if it still had ice crystals, and it
wasn't an issue (of course, one reason I picked this particular place is
that they were perfectly willing to deal with frozen EBM still in the bag if
needed-something most programs didn't want to deal with).

Otherwise, I second the banana. I remember ordering a banana for DD at Bob
Evans once when she woke up and decided milk wasn't enough.

It becomes much easier once they're eating table food.

--
Donna DeVore Metler
Orff Music Specialist/Kindermusik
Mother to Angel Brian Anthony 1/1/2002, 22 weeks, severe PE/HELLP
And Allison Joy, 11/25/04 (35 weeks, PIH, Pre-term labor)