Not enuff baby food

My lo is 8.5 mo. She eats what we eat except grains.just tear in tiny pieces. Seems like alot of jars.
Egg yolk
fruits
veggies
chicken

That's a whole lot of baby food. How much are you feeding him? When dd was 9 months old she pretty much ate what we ate and once in a while I would make some homemade chunky purees. She ate probably twice a day at that age, she preferred breastmilk more lol.

Imo thats way to much food.
However we follow baby led solids and never do puree/mush or rice cereal.
cubed up fruits and veggies, avacdado, banana, sweet potatoe, steamed fruits and veggies (carrots, broccoli etc) egg yolk, toast. Whatever we offer goes on the tray and baby self feeds

I just make my own. One sweet potato makes 7 to 10 8oz jars for .89. A bag of baby carrots is .99-1.50 and it makes 6-8 jars. Try making your own veggies fruits can be a pain ( I still make them but I have a food processor) fresh green beans are .99lb 2lbs makes 6-8 jars. Steam or boil them then use a potato masher put in seperate containers and freeze half of them.

I got some extra baby food if anyone knows how I could send it to OP for free I def will no questions asked I used to make all my DSs baby food now he eats whatever we eat. I have like 46 containers that I wont use.

That was hard to read.

I had wic, but I just donated the food they gave me cuz my kids woulnt eat it.

At that point they were eating table food at step 3 food. I couponed and got all of it (mostly organic) for next to nothing.

the baby should only be having snacks of food thru the day. It should not be taking the place of breastmilk or formula

I remember taking a half of a butternut squash and making like 14 jars worth! I was like "holy crap!!!" lol and we only paid like $.85 for it. We did a lot of baby led weaning, but I liked having back up purees for the rare occasions where we'd end up somewhere that didn't have food appropriate for her.

Quoting cherrywaves21:

I just make my own. One sweet potato makes 7 to 10 8oz jars for .89. A bag of baby carrots is .99-1.50 and it makes 6-8 jars. Try making your own veggies fruits can be a pain ( I still make them but I have a food processor) fresh green beans are .99lb 2lbs makes 6-8 jars. Steam or boil them then use a potato masher put in seperate containers and freeze half of them.

Egg yolk
Beans
Cooked carrots
Oatmeal
Potatoes
Rice

I had to introduce solids earlier then planned due to his reflux. He was maxed out on meds and boy adding solids helped tons. I wanted him to eat organically and didn't want to spend tons lol.

I was shocked at the amount of food one sweet potato made! I bought two thinking there is no way this will make anything, boy oh boy was I wrong!!

Quoting Baby_Avas_Momma:

I remember taking a half of a butternut squash and making like 14 jars worth! I was like "holy crap!!!" lol and we only paid like $.85 for it. We did a lot of baby led weaning, but I liked having back up purees for the rare occasions where we'd end up somewhere that didn't have food appropriate for her.

Quoting cherrywaves21:

I just make my own. One sweet potato makes 7 to 10 8oz jars for .89. A bag of baby carrots is .99-1.50 and it makes 6-8 jars. Try making your own veggies fruits can be a pain ( I still make them but I have a food processor) fresh green beans are .99lb 2lbs makes 6-8 jars. Steam or boil them then use a potato masher put in seperate containers and freeze half of them.

Quoting lostmommy326:

So most of my baby food for 9 mth old comes from wic program...i get 32 small jars of gerber fruits and veggies.im already runnin out n still got 2 weeks to go. gudthing i get my foodstamps the end of this week n all i got left is $15 so ima get what i can in baby food.she has become interested in table food...soft noodles mashed potatoes.at this point she will try anything.but with her eating so much babyfood n me not gettin enuff from wic.i wud like to maybe buy sum foods that me n her can both eat to save sum money ya kno.like bananas we both eat.this house aint big on fruit n veggies so im tryin to think of sum things.what do u all feed ur 9 mth old.im not a gud eater at all n lack in fruit n veggies myself.n i dont prepare alot of fresh meals.alot of it is processed.

Well WIC is only to HELP SUPLEMENT your food, not provide it all. Try cooking better with fresh vegetables and fruits. Budget better. There are cheaper baby foods out there then gerber. Or make your own. Not hard to do.