Frozen Veg / Freezing Fruit

[happy-chick]

Is it ok to use frozen veg if there are no preservitives, like peans etc? If I do use frozen peas can they be refroze when made into puree?

What fruits cant you freeze? I know banana is one of em?

Thx

 

[valentine]

Frozen veg is absolutely fine to use (very nutritious actually) and can be refrozen fine.

I find I can't freeze banana or avocado. I can freeze mashed potato or something made with mashed potato but have to rehydrate a bit with a splash of whole milk and butter when defrosting and reheating.

Its really straightforward I find, good luck! One of my best combinations so far has been 20 fruit purees - nectarines (skinned), blueberry (frozen blueberries) and mango (skinned) - chopped and boiled up for a few mins in cold water and frozen. When using these as a pudding, just don't let DD get her hands in the tub and rub it into your cream rug like I did ! Fruit can be really expensive so I sometimes go to Tesco at 9pm and get their reduced fruit (how I got the nectarines - 7 punnets for £2 and mango last time!)

Valentine Xxx

 

[happy-chick]

Ok sounds good thanks Valentine!

Ive just started giving dinner then pudding, both puree's just savory first then sweeter afterwards & now shes had the basics im planning to make some more tasty stuff for her (add more veg/fruits) from one of Annabel Karmel's books so going shopping this afternoon

Another Q is how long can you leave pureed fruit/veg in the freezer for?

 

[evemarie8]

I use frozen peas and sweetcorn for Clark then re-freeze the cooked purees, as reccomended by Annabel Karmel so should be fine. Everything else I use fresh though.
Stewed pears and apples work really well and frozen summer fruits are good to blend too. Banana as you have said is a freezing no-no and I don't think you can freeze avacado (not that I have tried) but apart from that I am not sure of any others.

 

[evemarie8]

Another Q is how long can you leave pureed fruit/veg in the freezer for?

1 month

 

[happy-chick]

Ok thanks hun Off to supermarket I go, my kitchen is gunna be full of fruit & veg 2nite hehe!

 

[evemarie8]

I have days when I go mad with the blender, Clarks fave at the mo is cauliflower cheese, which is just loads of cooked cauliflower, 2oz of his milk and a small pile of grated cheddar! He LOVES it!!!!

Also one of his wierd faves which was an accident when I first made it is parsnip and pear! I meant to defrost two little tubs of parsnip but one turned out to be pear so I thought what the hell ! He loved it and has had it about 4 times since!!

 

[happy-chick]

I have days when I go mad with the blender, Clarks fave at the mo is cauliflower cheese, which is just loads of cooked cauliflower, 2oz of his milk and a small pile of grated cheddar! He LOVES it!!!!

Also one of his wierd faves which was an accident when I first made it is parsnip and pear! I meant to defrost two little tubs of parsnip but one turned out to be pear so I thought what the hell ! He loved it and has had it about 4 times since!!

One of Ellies fav's at the mo is Carrot, Parsnip & Pear She also loves Butternut Squash, Sweet Potato and Apple

At the moment we only have a small freezer so just plan to make a weeks worth at a time but we're moving soon and getting one of the huuge american fridge freezers so can so a big batch one a month as we'll have room x

 

[maria1976]

another weird one that looked absolutlely awful, but Ruby loves is spinach, potato and quinoa!! she cant get enough. I got the recipes fromThe truuuly scrumptious book of organic baby purees, by topsy fogg.

When i get a chance im gonna try and put some of the recipes up on here.

x

 

[evemarie8]

getting one of the huuge american fridge freezers so can so a big batch one a month as we'll have room x

Thats what we have and it's now a baby food haven lol!!!!!!

 

[pilkers]

You can't freeze banana, avocado or melon... they all need to be eaten as soon as they are prepared x

frozen veg especially peas and sweetcorn and fine to use... once cooked they can be re-frozen.

You can also use dried fruit... they just need softening in boiling water and the stones removed. A lot less of a mess too!

 

[happy-chick]

Thx hun will let u know how we get on! Gunna try melon in her feeder too

 

[Full of hope!]

I'm glad you posted this happy_chick, some of my questions have been answered there