One of my favorite gifts to give at a baby shower is a baby food mill. There is nothing more important than feeding your child the same nourishing foods that you eat to start developing healthy palates.
When my babies turned one and were really ready to start with solids I used a baby food mill to puree small portions of the foods my family was eating. From the get go, whatever my family ate, my baby did as well. This has really helped in getting them accustomed to eating the same foods my family does.
A baby food mill is so easy to use and a cinch to clean up. I used a mini food processor as well, but the clean up alone often had me reaching for my food mill. What I love about this version is that it comes with a carrying case. It makes it so easy to throw it in the diaper bag and have it with you wherever you go. Whether your at a restaurant or visiting family, it’s convenient to pull out, puree a small portion and feed your baby.
Having a food mill saves you money from having to buy jars of food and really… have you tasted those baby foods in a jar?!! Trust me, your baby can tell the difference from homemade food and processed baby food in a jar as well. I’d rather get my baby accustomed to real food versus processed.
Here’s your chance to win your own baby food mill.
That’s right. Even if you’re not pregnant I’m sure you know someone who is. In order to win, here are the rules…
Baby Food Mill Giveaway
For your first entry, leave a comment as to what you would puree for your baby.
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RT @dianabauman The Virtual Baby Shower Continues With a Baby Food Mill Giveaway! #giveaway http://bit.ly/exWMyW
That is a total of 4 entries! Please remember to leave a separate comment below for each entry! If you do not leave a separate comment for each entry they will not count!
More chances to win!
For five additional entries…
As an added bonus, Andrea from High/Low Food/Drink has come up with super cute cupcake/food toppers for us to use!! To garner 5 more entries, we’re asking that you download her cake toppers, create a recipe (sweet or savory) and place these toppers on top for Christine’s virtual baby shower. Write up a blog post the blog link to diana@spain-in-iowa.com with a subject line of Christines Virtual Baby Shower Cake Topper and I’ll have a roundup on my blog soon after the baby shower. Click Here to Download the Toppers on Scribd. If you don’t have a blog you can still participate by sending me a picture of your recipe with cake/food topper to diana@spain-in-iowa.com.
Even More chances to win!
Visit, Andrea from High/Low Food/Drink and Christine from Fresh Local and Best and comment to win on their sites for even more chances to win. We’ll each be doing a random generator from our comments and from those winning 3 comments we’ll again put it through the random generator to come up with one winner for each gift!
The official rules
The Baby Food Mill giveaway is open until Midnight, March 30, 2011. A winner will be announced shortly after. Contest is open to the Continental United States. The winner will be chosen by random.org.
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Diana Bauman
As a first generation American, Diana shares her family’s traditional Spanish and Mexican recipes. As a mami and urban homesteader she also writes about her faith, family, organic gardening, raising backyard chickens and preserving the harvest.
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31 Responses to The Virtual Baby Shower Continues With a Baby Food Mill Giveaway!
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I love a hot cup of coffee in the morning. Spanish and Mexican food live in my corazón. I love to sit at a bar in Spain with nothing to do but breathe in the Spanish air. I love listening to my children laugh and to teach them new things. I love to play in the dirt and have an insatiable appetite to create. Most importantly, I love Jesus and am on a journey to living a simple life.
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Neat! My nephew is getting ready to eat more food (not just baby food), so this would be awesome!
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I had one of those with all my kids, great gift idea too!! I loved it as it was easy to bring to the table and just puree some food that we were eating for the baby.
One thing my son loved was roast chicken pureed and mixed with a bit of olive oil and sea salt (to get it the right texture) and pureed sweet potatoes!! He still loves both those foods now that he eats solids.
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This is great! A blast from the past! Had one of these when my daughter was exploring table food, almost 36 years ago! We milled everything from spaghetti (her fave) to carrots to apples. Hardly ever used jar baby food. Love it!
Having a little one on the way (due in July) this would be perfect! I would puree sweet potatoes, carrots, apples, fresh corn – really the possibilities are endless!
I am very excited to puree avocados for little guy!
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My new little one will be here in about 2 months. i’m hoping to do most of his food myself. i’m thinking sweet potatoes would be super easy and yummy!!
you definitely know what you are writing about here. im so glad i was able to locate this website
Wonderful giveaway!!!!!I have a 3 weeks old baby and I will love this
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I would puree carrots, apples, pears, asparagus, and broccoli
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I would puree everything from the chicken with vegetables I make often to the yummy beets that are in season.
Carrots, sweet potatoes, squash and broccoli–just for starters.
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Zucchini, squash, pumpkin, apples, pears – just a few months away for me and the babe!
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I used a baby food for all my six. They rarely if ever saw a baby food jar. I recently found a Kidco food mill at a thrift store for 99 cents. It’s going to see use now for the next month maybe more with my daughter in law, grandson and granddaughter (7 months) living with us until it’s safe to go back to Japan. They are here as Japan evacuees from Military base.
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I would puree everything for my baby! We are so excited to be having a baby girl this July (after 3 bio boys and 1 adopted boy – and after 9 years with no pregnancies!!) and I need baby gear all over again! Hoping to win
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I’d use it to puree veggies I grow this year. Zucchini, arugula, carrots….
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I always like to puree potatoes or winter squash.
pureed squash!
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I would puree fruit and vegetables it!!