If you have little ones, you may want to head over to your local Big Lots store. This week, Big Lots is offering up Beech Nut jarred baby food 2.5 oz. to 6 oz. sizes for just 20¢-40¢ per jar. Note that you will want to check the expiration dates.
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If you prefer organic baby food, also check out Earth’s Best options at Big Lots too. They usually have the bigger jars for 30¢ at all times. I love to stock up these. The expiry dates are usually a month or two away. Also check for other organic snack options that they have frequently.
I have racked up at Big Lots with baby food over the past few weeks. This Saturday when everything was an extra 20% off for Buzz Club members, I got around 70 jars for $18!!! Some of them had November/December expiration dates, but most of them were well into 2015. Most of it was Beech Nut but there was also some Gerber, Gerber Organics, and Earth’s Best at mine. There was also a HUGE variety of fruits and veggies. Very thankful!!
PS: Anyone have any tricks to getting babies to eat the yucky stuff that they really need to learn to like?!? Like peas/carrots 🙂 I hate having to disguise it by mixing it with yummy stuff b/c I want him to acquire a taste for those things…
If you don’t want to mix them, try alternating bites of one veggie with one veggie they don’t care for. I wouldn’t alternate with fruit because the sweetness would make it harder for them to like the veggie when it came around.
Yes- that is the problem. He LOVES the fruits and will eat any fruit I give him. He used to like the veggies when that was all he got, but now he is spoiled 🙁
Hi Jess! I had the same problemm with my little… My suggestion is to keep offering it. Doc says it takes a couple tries for babies to acquire a taste for the “yucky” veggie stuff.
Thanks. That’s what I guess I’ll have to do and hope that he will start to like them (or at least tolerate them). In the meantime, I will just have an extremely messy kitchen b/c he spits them EVERYWHERE!!
Try to mix them up with fruit jars.
That’s what I’ve been doing, but now he won’t eat anything GREEN unless it has fruit in it! haha
that’s why I started with green beans, peas and avocadoes. Once they ate those I moves to carrots and sweet potatoes and stuff like that
We used to mix it with gerber rice cereal… loved it
Try spices? Also this helps baby learn to try new things and not insist on bland food only. My daughter liked cinnamon on carrots, sweet potatoes,parsnips, and other root vegetables. Pureed green vegetables are pretty blah — try garlic, cilantro, basil, onion. Flavored oils can also be good and mix in so easily. Sesame oil is good on any vegetables that would work in asian/stir-fry foods. A strong olive oil may work with garlic/onion/parsley. Ingredient list permitting for your baby’s age, salad dressing can be a shortcut to having a nice mix of seasonings already figured out. Worked with spinach.
Some babies have strong preferences about texture and temperature, so maybe experiment?
Thank you! Definitely had not thought about spices. My son is 8 month so I would think things like cinnamon would be ok?!
at first, i mixed my baby’s veggies with a little breast milk and baby rice cereal. it made it a little creamier, and the rice made it more “bland” so the strong taste of the peas or beans or whatever was not so pronounced.
also, some types, like squash and zucchini, are not as sharp of a taste as some of the greens, so maybe revert back to those for a little while. sweet potatoes might work, too.
Sometimes it’s not so much the taste but the texture. When my almost 15 month old was starting baby food peas and lentils Made her gag like crazy because they had this weird grainy texture in baby food. Now she eats peas like candy because they are easy to pick up and soft to chew and fun to eat for her. Try thinning out the peas maybe or mix it with something not so much to cover up the taste but just to make it less pastey and grainy.
That makes sense. I actually just started trying more Stage 2 1/2 and 3 (instead of stage 2)…maybe he doesn’t like that?!
Can these jars be reused to store homemade baby food?
for homemade baby food I would make a big batch, put them in ice cube trays and freeze them. Then I would take them out of the cube trays (to be able to make more) and put them in freezer bags. Just take out what you want the night before, place into containers of your choice and put in the fridge to defrost overnight. It works wonders. I did usually buy the sprout organic baby food to travel with and to put in the diaper bag because it was easier then having a container
Thanks Ashley! Will give the freezer trays a try.
Every baby is different. My 10 month old decided he only liked homemade diced soft food once I introduced it. Now we just do Baby Led Weaning. My first baby ate baby cereal until he was 2!! Lol.
I saw that today. At my store, they put the pouches (4 count for $1-$1.50) on the end cap with the jars. I really stocked up when my baby was in baby food – so much that I’m still finding them in the back of the pantry lol.