Baby Bullet Reviewed

So here is where you can find this lovely product.
 https://www.babybullet.com/store/orderindex
Mine was gifted to me, but purchased at a Target I believe.

In the picture you will see the very cute little smiley faced storage containers, yellow storage container, two blender jars, two different blades, a spatula, the base, and two booklets. So, I have been itching to use this product since I was about 4 months pregnant, before I ever owned one! This product is amazing to any mom. Now, I'm not one for kitchen products. I'm no chef, baker, or kitchen genius. After this my favorite kitchen appliance is the microwave if that tells you anything about me. However I am a crunchy mama who loves convenience and often those things do not go hand in hand. For instance, cloth diapers. but that's a whole other story.

I use this product about once a week multiple times in that one sitting. I'll go through my process with you to give you a good idea as to how awesome this thing is.

First I make rice cereal. (Yes, you can do that too!)
I usually make a whole bunch of it to last me a week.

This chick makes an awesome "How To"
http://www.littlemissmomma.com/2013/01/how-to-make-baby-rice-cereal-from-scratch.html

Rice Cereal
So I use what the baby bullet has named the "Milling blade" that is actually made for rice and oats. So I portion out how much rice I need for the week and divide that in thirds to make it easier on the machine. (it actually is faster that way) I usually do the opposite of Little Miss Momma and leave my rice powder in an air tight container so I can make the perfect serving size when needed since I am also mixing rice cereal with baby food. Once I am then done with this weeks rice cereal I wash out both the blade and small blender piece to use later.

The picture above was taken from littlemissmomma.com

This week was Pears, Bananas, Avocados, and Sweet Potatoes.
*Note, I am currently making baby food for a friend of mine*
Pears
One pear made six servings. I used a vegetable peeler to peel off the skin first. After my pear was skinless I cut the pear to avoid the core and seeds. After discarding the center of the pear and it's stem I began to cut up the pear into small pieces. While most foods require you to add water, breast milk, or formula to get the right consistency pears don't require any. If this is a first food you introduce to your baby I recommend adding an ounce or two of breast milk or formula. Then I add it all to the blender hit the locking position and get the yellow storage container ready. The neat thing about the yellow container is it is best used for freezing. Once frozen the baby food pops out in these perfect one serving cylinders. The best way to get them out is filling each one a little over 3/4 of the way. By leaving a little space between the food and the top of the container some how helps for an easy slide out. It takes less than a minute for a whole pear to become perfect mush. (: After washing the parts I used I then moved on to Bananas.
Bananas
I know that with the right amount of patience I could easily have made this with out the baby bullet. But why do the work when it takes the baby bullet mere seconds? So I used about a banana and a half plus four ounces of breast milk (you can substitute water or formula) to make about 6-7 servings. Now I used the cute storage containers that will sit on their stand in my fridge to hold my "naner mush." (you can not use these for frozen storage like the yellow container.) I really don't know the shelf life for bananas but common sense tells me it's not very long.

http://www.target.com/p/beaba-multiportions-green/-/A-13680944#prodSlot=medium_1_9

I recently bought a set of baby food storage containers from Target that I am able to freeze. (Picture above) Before I had bought the new containers I would normally take an intermission to allow the food in the yellow containers to freeze all the way through. This way I could pop them out and put them into a labeled freezer storage ziplock bag.  I would wash that container out and begin veggies. However, my new containers allow me to "keep on truckin" as they say.

Avocado
Remember the small blender cup I used for rice cereal? Well this is what I am going to use again. I remove the peel from the avocado and begin to cut t into slices around the pit. (Save that pit for later) Cut your avocado into very small chunks. Then divide all of the cut chunks into thirds. Have six or so ounces or breast milk, formula, or water on standby. For every third group of avocado add three ounces to blender cup and get going. Now, this is the last time I will be using the short blender cup. I will have a bowl ready to pour in the first two thirds of the avocado but the last third will remain in the cup. I will then add the first 2/3 and the pit we saved. The pit helps the avocado stay fresh and keep it's pretty bright green color. However, if you were to freeze the avocado it would make around 4-7 servings depending on size and the amount of liquid you added to it.

Sweet Potato

To prepare a sweet potato, it will first need to be peeled. The cut up into small chunks you must steam your sweet potato to soften it enough to puree. I do this by letting water boil as I peel the potatoes. After cutting up the sweet potato you will then add them to the boiling water with a dash or two of salt.

Picture was taken from eatlivepaleo.com

Boil until the sweet potato chunks are softened. a good way of testing their readiness is extracting one from the water and mashing it with a fork. If it mashes easily you're ready to move on to the next step. The baby bullet has a capacity limit of about a third of a large sweet potato. There is a marking on the large baby bullet blender cup that states MAX --- with a fill line. Use this to judge how much sweet potato you fill in. With sweet potato you will need a minimum of six ounces of breast milk, formula, or water to add into the bullet. 

One sweet potato usually makes any where from 6-8 servings 

And that usually makes for a week of baby food in my home. (: 

My only negative comments is the lack of storage. Honestly, I wish the baby bullet's freezer storage container was a unit of twelve instead of six. Once you start using this you will never want to buy baby food ever again. So, thank you baby bullet for ending my battle in trying to find uses for those little baby food jars!

Sincerely, 

The Tickle Monster