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The problem with baby food is two things. One, we don’t know what’s inside the babyfood, if it’s organic, if it’s vine ripened. And the other problem is that the packagingthe baby food comes in, it could be plastics or metals that have toxins in it that leachinto our food. And obviously it’s getting into our babies, a pretty silly idea. So what we’re going to do is make baby food at home the old-fashioned way. Now you cansteam your veggies, steam your fruit, and then mush it up. That’s a very easy way ofdoing it. The other easy way is doing it in a blender. So what we’re going to do is we’re going to make a combination. So it takes four ingredients. We’re going to have half a pear, half an apple, half a banana, and half a carrot. So we’regoing to start off with the apple. Literally, we are going to leave the seeds in and thestems, if you want as well. Cut that up a little bit. Particularly with apples, it’sgreat fiber, and it’s going to be really good for the digestive system. Half an apple. We’regoing to put some pear in. Pear particularly is a very cooling fruit, so it’s also helpsthe digestive system. And the seeds can go in and the stem. That’s all fine, too. Carrots, they’ve actually been known by herbalists for centuries to be an antiseptic. So greatfor gums and teeth and also for the digestive system as well. So half a carrot and thensome bananas. So the banana is like a bit of a thickening agent and also the sweetener. So it’s going taste nice and also bring it together. Yum! Get your lid. Put it on top. Now on the Vitamix you got variable speeds. You can control how fast the machine is. We’regoing to choose number seven. Leave it on for about 30 seconds. Very smooth. All theseeds and pulp totally liquefied with a natural coloring from carrot and banana, pear andapple. Now the last time I made baby food was on the weekend, and before that I hadn’t eatenbaby food for, I don’t know how long maybe 10, 15 years or something and making babyfood myself, it reminded me how tasty it is. Yeah, you can really taste the banana. Everything’sin there. The seeds, all the fiber, all the nutrition and very simple, very cheap as welland delicious. So hopefully, your baby likes it. Beautiful ice cream. Let’s put it over my head. I did it once. It ended really badly. Okay so. . .

Hi, I’m Kate Yerxa, extension educator with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. Today, we’re going to talk about making your own baby food. With a little planningand some kitchen utensils, you can make foods for your baby at home. Homemade baby foodwill help cut food costs, provide your baby with nutritious foods and make your life justa little easier. Some of the materials you can use to makeyour own baby food: a cutting board and knife for food preparation; a cooking pot, steameror baking dish for cooking; a spoon, fork, potato masher, blender, food mill or strainerfor pureeing; and an ice cube tray, cookie sheet, wax paper, plastic wrap and freezer-gradecontainers or bags for storing homemade baby food. Canned or frozen vegetables and fruits also may be used to make homemade baby food. Whenusing commercially prepared canned or frozen items, check the ingredient label to avoidextra sugar, salt and fat. Ways to prepare foods for homemade baby foods:Steaming or boiling are acceptable for fruits, and microwaving, steaming and boiling areacceptable for vegetables. To minimize vitamin loss, boil fresh vegetables or fruits in acovered saucepan with a small amount of water, or steam them until just tender enough toeither puree, mash or eat as a finger food. For meats, baking, boiling, broiling, braising,stewing and steaming are good cooking methods, but frying is not. Cook meat until it is softand tender and reaches a safe temperature according to a meat thermometer. Do not addsalt, seasonings, sugar, butter, margarine or oils to foods for babies younger than 1year old. Foods taste differently to your baby than they taste to you. With clean hands, equipment, work surface and fruits or vegetables, you are ready tostart. Today, we will be preparing peaches. First, wash the peaches, then cut in half,remove the pit, peel and place cut side down in a baking dish. Next, we’re going to add1½ to 2 inches of water to our peeled peaches. Now, bake for 20-25 minutes in a 400-degreeoven. After cooking, the next step is pureeing. Pureeing food means that you put it through a sieve, grinder or blender to make it intoa pastelike or thick liquid with a smooth texture. If you are making baby food for immediateuse, use within one to two days. Store in a refrigerator at 40 degrees or less in aclean container marked with the date the food was made. To freeze in single-serve portions, try using either an ice cube tray or a cookie sheet. For the cookie sheet method, drop 1-2 tablespoons of cooked, pureed food in separate spots ona clean cookie sheet covered with wax paper. Cover with plastic wrap or aluminum foil andput in the freezer. When cubes or cookies are frozen, with cleanhands put them in a clean plastic freezer container or a bag, and store in the freezerat zero degrees or less. Write the name of the food and the date on the container, anduse within one month for best quality. Once frozen, homemade baby food can be thawedor defrosted in three ways: in the refrigerator, under cold running water or as part of thereheating process. Do not thaw baby food on the counter at room temperature or in standingwater. When you remove baby food from the freezer, label it with the date and time removed. Store thawed baby food in the refrigerator, and use it within 48 hours or throw it out. Meat, poultry and fish should be used within 24 hours. Do not refreeze baby food that hasthawed.

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Howdy folks how is it going welcome to my virgin kitchen, I am here today with the oneand only this is Mrs Barry, hello, the actual Mrs Barry she is not an actress I am not payingyou to be here am I right? She is quite short so is sat on her knees and is very nervousbut she has finally given in and decided to be in a video with me how cool is that areyou excited? I am, you can talk to the lens and pretend there are people there becauseit is go hi, hi! There you go, oh my gosh wow. So basically there is this thing calleda baby food challenge and basically we are going to get Mrs Barry blindfolded and tastevarious jars of baby food are you excited? Yes very excited, so we have to see if shecan guess how many she can get right. Ready? I am ready, lets do it, lets go!Sorry is that too tight yes that is very tight this is like real love can you loosen it ohgosh that is tight, we need to make sure you cannot see, no she cannot see. So we will start off with our first one you will be able to see it on the screen now,nice little pop sound that way we know nobody has interfered with it beforehand. Have asmell, what do you think that smells like? I do not know, not nice! Ok so that is a goodbuild up, ok here we go not too much, obviously we are not warming these up so it is goingto be colder but that could help the tastebuds so need to get a nice big mouth open widenow. Whenever Mrs Barry and I go for an ice cream on the beach with the girl this is likea joke I always go to give her ice cream and put it on her nose. So she is protecting thenose. Ready? Open your mouth then, you do not have to inhale it! Right it is in go gogo, take it. It is like lamb flavoured, yeah there is lamb in it ? is it shepherd pie?It is shepherds pie! Are you alright? That is disgusting, do not die on me we have notgot a prenup or anything like that. Argh that is gross but it might be gross the good newsis you guessed it right it is shepherds pie. Second one. Next up you will be able to see this on the screen right now, woooo have a smell of that,it smells like cat food. Cat food here we go. I do not know if I can eat that, comeon if babies can have it you can open your mouth, it is enough to put babies off, init goes, this is love right there. What are you doing? Can you tell me what it is? Youdo not have to swallow it. I cannot swallow that it is disgusting. Do you know what iswas? It was a carrot, dill and salmon risotto which is quite flash right? That is vile itjust tasted urgh. I like fish but not like that, sorry. Not a risotto fan it does smelllike crab paste hmmm nice. Mrs Barry just had to go for a little toiletbreak but it was not related to the food it was Chloe, she was like ?Mummy I need awee!? she was so basically. Shall I get back on my knees? Yeah you have shown yourtrue height now you look like axel rose from that rock band but a midget version ok havea smell see what you think it could be because if you can guess it I will not let you eatit. It smells quite similar to the lamb, well it is not so you better, let me smell it again?. Everytime! Ready open wide, ok, it is that face when she has it like hmmm yum Iam going to try some too?. What do you think it could be like spaghetti Bolognese, thereis pasta in it. Are you ok? Barry I want a divorce what!? Last time I am doing a videowith you, come on now, cheesy pasta bake that was, cheesy? Yeah it was not really cheesyit was just a bit milky, did you find it milky? You can definitely taste the pasta in it!So glad we did not give these to Chloe, yeah make your own baby food folks. What are you doing? You are being to quiet? I was not doing anything. Ok here we go, readywooo I am loving that popping sound here we go you will see on the screen what it is rightnow give me your head lets have a little smell come on trust me smell she is flaring hernostrils when smelling, really going doubling the girth on the nostril it smells just likethe one we just had it does smell vegetable ish but the real proof is in the taste yeshere we go. Open up as I get closer your head goes up, you need to open up my love openyour mouth come on I cannot get it in there wider more like you are at the dentist isthat the face that would sell this food on any billboard right now. So Mrs Barry whatdo you think it is? They all look the same to me! Hmmm that tasted like soup to me isit spaghetti Bolognese, It is not, it is a scrumptious, the word ?scrumptious? beingprime in there scrumptious Sunday lunch and it should contain chicken too so it shouldhave all the vegetables in there but it does just taste like a soup like a vegetable soup,tastes like no Sunday lunch I know well maybe your Sunday lunches. Mrs Barry is just having a little water break which is allowed under the rules of her takingpart because if she did not have it she probably would not have done it right? Are you goingto cry? No! I hate you so much! I better not be ill tomorrow. *knocking sound* Hello, Chloeneeds the toilet! Right we have to stop for another toilet break but we will be back. So that was a toilet false alarm Axel Rose is back, are you on your knees? Yes you arebasically Chloe does this thing sometimes where she says I need the toilet and sometimesshe does not, it is like a tease right even Becky does that sometimes too anyhow. It isreally weird because Phoebe is right there looking through the glass with her nose compressedalright? That smells like, nope do not guess now, it smells like a leaf, like a leaf? Whatwas your favourite baby food growing up? I like the leaf flavour! I was going to saylike a leafy green vegetable not too much, no no, not much. Phoebe is doing like a zombieattack on the window there it Is like somebody trying to break in, go away, Mummy & Daddyare having fun a minute. Here it goes, Spinach? It is spinach, anything else? *mouths: thatis disgusting* cheese or something? Yeah it is a cheese and spinach and potato bake andthat is the face of someone who is enjoying it so imagine feeding that to a baby you cantell why they are excited right, yeah how many more left? Two more left, excited? No. Great. I will not even let you smell this one becauseyou will guess straight away what it is ok just a little bit, yeah it is just a littlebit come on open your mouth, it better be! Come on try it, I have got enough thankyou!Actually that is probably the best one, urghh yeah it is really nice yeah but you did nothave the fish one it is probably the nicest out of all of them. There is no flavour tothem is there, no they all taste the same yeah they all taste the same, some have moreof a milky texture or cheesiness but it is a little more herby this is spaghetti Bologneseso it has got basil in it mate well done I just called my wife mate, do that most timesright? You do. Mrs Barry has been a great sport so it isonly fair to finish up with some dessert and in fact as a baby my mum tells me that thiswas my absolutely favourite thing in the World to eat so I will definitely join in with youhave a big old spoon of this, I do not want a big spoon, you will love it! Come on openyour mouth it is coming right now or it will go on your top, hmmm straight in there, lookat that face! It is good right, and can you hear the noise our fridge is making it isgoing raghhhh we have a new fridge it is like a velociraptor in our kitchen going raghhhactually that is really nice is it? Yeah that chocolate custard, oh, chocolate pudding nowwhen I was a baby growing up apparently I would go crazy for this stuff it was the onlything I would eat hence my figure right! So that was chocolate pudding, you can take yourblindfold off now if you want. So how do you think the whole baby food thing is, are youglad we did not give our kids baby food? Oh yeah definitely, it has been an experienceright have you enjoyed your debut? I have it has been fun. Would you like to come backand do another video? Maybe not baby food. Something else? Yeah I will come back again? it is my wife! So ladies and gentlemen Mrs Barry if you enjoyed this video do notforget to give it a thumbs up, share, subscribe and comment all that stuff we better go hangout with the zombies now and see you again next time, bye!

How’s it going everybody. A lot of you have been hitting me up on Twitter and Facebookabout doing challenges like the cinnamon challenge. I’ve actually already successfully completedthe cinnamon challenge so fuck yourself. Today I thought I would do the baby food challengewhich I am super pumped about and by super pumped I mean zero pumped I fucking hate eatingstuff that I don’t like. I’m really picky with my food anyway I don’t like fish, orcheese, or chocolate or like dessert really I don’t like any desserts. I like italiansandwiches actually I eat tunafish I eat canned tunafish sandwiches all the time but otherthan that no fish it’s gross. Anyway the idea is I’m going to blindfold myself, taste somefood and try to identify what the fucking flavor is we’ll see what happens. Sidebarif you really want a good effective blindfold you take a T shirt like this hold one cornerand then the other corner, spin it around, and you can really blindfold yourself. I sometimesdo this when I’m sleeping but don’t tell anybody. And a lot of people tell I look like a terrorist,I happen to think I look like more of a pirate. Yea here we go. Ready? That’s pretty good. What is that applesauce? Yea that was good. Apple blueberry? Ooo manzanas y arrandanos. Yea that was fine. I don’t know what these fucking babies are complaining about. So Igot that one right. Kind of you said it was applesauce. Well fuck yourself I got halfI’m counting it one for one I said applesauce it was apples and blueberries whatever. Herewe go number two oh my god what the fuck is ah come on oh god what the fuck was that?oh god. Oh my god chicken noodle. That literally tasted like throw up. I thought this was gonnabe fine ok jesus that was awful. Alright hand? It’s great when the guy handing you the fuckingbaby food starts laughing to himself. Oh this smells fuck is this is fucking dog food isn’tit. Is it cat food? Nope. It’s cat food Jon. No it’s not. Ok. Your mistake was smellingit at all before putting git in you mouth. What a foolish mistake I made. Oh god. Ohwhat the fuck is this? It’s fucking dog it’s dog food it’s gotta be fucking dog food. Ohgod. What was that it wasn’t dog food? Chicken and Chicken gravy. Dear babies ah one dayit gets better one day you’ll graduate to buffalo wings, it’s not all chicken and chickengravy. I honestly thought that was dog food. OH my god what the fuck? Is it peas? Nope. Carrots. Yup. Gotta be carrots. Oh god it’s even worse going down. Carrots, zanahorias. It wasn’t that bad I was still just so scared of that chicken and chicken gravy. Chickennoodle was the worst cuz it was chunkier, there was like bits of junk I don’t fuckingknow. Feelin good, cruising now. Applesauce. Nailed it. Really? Yup. Cinnamonooo motts. Crushing this. Applesauce bitch. Alright. What. What is. What the fuck wasthat? Squash. That was brutal. Squash was bad. I think chicken soup is still the worst. It’s Jello. Jello guaranteed snack pack! Here we go. This is the same fucking one youdick isn’t it fuck! Nope. It’s more chicken then chicken fuckin how do they eat this dogfood? I can’t even swallow my own breath. Come on. The fuck was that is it more chickenand chicken gravy? Ham and ham gravy of fucking course it was. Is this blended ham? This isgross it like. Ingredients: ham water. It is it’s pureed. Fucking ham man it’s justugh. Blended ham are you out of your fucking mind?What the fuck. Is this sour creme? You cocksucker. It’s not sour creme. I mean its ok but likebut like it hurts my tongue. Alright what the fuck is it? Greek yogurt? That’s fuckinggross, as I fucking eat more of it. This is fucking gross like I can’t believebabies have to eat this shit. “They don’t know the difference though it’s just it’sjust food you know?” Well we do. What the. I’m going to say ah apple pie. It’sbananas. Ooo good aftertaste though. Bananas, Bananas. Ok oh no. Mixed vegetables and beef a nutritious dinner. Nutrition for babies five grams ofprotein? Good lord that is horrible. This is so gross this is like the grossest thingI’ve ever had these two hands down Gerber I love you buddy you’re killing me with thebaby food here. Like it burns oh god. Alright let’s keep going. Huh it’s spicy,is this fucking mustard? It’s mustard, obviously. Cocksucker. Mustard. Oh god that was tough. Yea so if your baby is a growing boy feed him fucking 100% mustard. Better than chickennoodle nutritious dinner or fuckin beef puree or whatever the fuck that other shit was hamand ham gravy oh god. What the, hot, is that fucking hot sauce?Oh my god it went up my nose, oh what do I do. Oh I like snotted it. Alright well ahmoral of the story is if you’re going to try this make sure you can trust your friendswhich I fucking can’t obviously. I hope something I don’t know whatever dude fuck it I’m done. If you like the video please subscribe, if you don’t like the video please subscribe. My name is Max No Sleeves and I’ll see you next Tuesday. My friends and I were in Burma and I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. My name is Michael Caine.