Acorn Squash!

We finished our green peas and have started a new vegetable this week.  Ella's favorite so far is acorn squash!  She ate two the first night and could have sucked them with a straw if I had let her. 

Cut the squash in half and scrape the seeds out.

 Put the two halves in a baking dish and add a little water to create steam under the foil while it bakes.  

 I baked them for an hour on 350.  Scrape the cooked pulp out of the skin and put it in the blender with breast milk, formula, or water.

 Blend until you get the consistency you want.

 That one squash made 11-2 ounce containers of baby food. 

 I hardly cleaned her mouth with the spoon as she ate it because she literally sucked it off the spoon.  

 It was the first time she ate two containers at once!

1 acorn squash from Trader Joe's $1.29

I did not buy organic because acorn squash is a vegetable that does not have to be organic.  If it has a peel it is not exposed to chemicals on the inside.  Just make sure you wash the outside well before cooking.

It made 16 total ounces (actually a little more each container had a little more than 2 oz.)

That's $0.08 per ounce.

Walmart-Earths Best brand winter squash (a mixture of butternut and acorn squash)

12 pack of 4 oz. jars $19.08

That's approximately $0.40 per jar 

It would have cost me a total of $3.87 to make 48oz.

If I had bought this from Walmart it would have cost me $19.08 to get 48oz.

That is a HUGE difference.  I think I'll keep making the baby food!  This one blew me away!