Yes yes yes on the baby food! I made my own homemade baby food for my son this way (he's 3 now) and am currently making it for my 9 month old daughter. So easy!

Basically, cook whatever veggie or fruit, run it through a food processor, ladle it into ice cube trays (I bought ones with lids but you can put tin foil over it too), freeze, then pop them out and store in gallon freezer bags.

Advantages:

1) you can make a bunch of different things you can't find in baby food jars -- like avocado for example. My daughter LOVES avocado. Avocado freezes great!

2) they taste better. try it yourself. I promise homemade tastes better than jarred any day.

3) you can mix your own combos. My son LOVED pumpkin and prunes mixed together. My daughter likes pears with peas (who knew?). We got very creative.

4) less waste. a cube is about an ounce and my kids both were only eating about an ounce at a time to start -- jars are 4, 6, or 8 oz so I would have wasted a ton.

Really really, it is easy. Just set aside a little time each week to make two or three new things at once and you are good to go for a long while. A big butternut squash can make a whole tray full of cubes. I also cut many of the cubes in half after freezing so I can mix different things together in smaller portions.

Really.... it rules.