Reddit reviews Cooking for Baby: Wholesome, Homemade, Delicious Foods for 6 to 18 Months

We had great success making our daughter's baby food. We received Cooking for Baby as a gift and used it all the time. The recipes are easy, but for the most part you can puree just about anything. I'm sure you'd be able to find some good recipes online for free. Essential items for us were a food processor and ice cube trays (we used these stackable trays secured with rubber bands).

Don't get me wrong, even though the recipes are easy, it takes more time than going to the store and buying food, but we thought it was worth it. We would make a big batch of food, put the food in the ice cube trays and freeze. Once frozen, we took them out of the trays and dumped them into a labelled plastic freezer bag for use throughout the week. The three basic recipes we used the most were for rice, peas, and beef.

Cooking for Baby by Lisa Barnes

I always recommend this book. It was awesome. It offers a progression for introducing solids, talks about making your own purees, and it has nice simple recipes that build into more complex ones (for toddlers anyway). They are pretty delicious and good for beyond 18months. This book was helpful to me as a mom who had no idea where to start.