The Homemade Baby Food Recipes Blog

You make your own baby food because you want your little one to receive the very best nutrition, using fresh and wholesome ingredients. But did you know that there are five very simple ways to make your baby’s food even MORE nutritious? If your baby eats very little – or if you’re having difficulties getting [...]

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Mmmm – homemade baby food doesn’t get any better than this! Today’s recipe is for a deliciously simple dessert or breakfast, with a classic flavour combination your little one will love! What’s more, it’s a dish containing plenty of important nutrients, too… Dietary fibre from the apples to keep baby ‘regular’! Lots of vitamins and [...]

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Infant feeding practices have changed quite considerably over the years, perhaps most significantly with the current recommendation that solid foods are not introduced until baby is at least 6 months of age. Even more recent is the Baby Led Weaning movement – a practice whereby babies are introduced to solid foods only once they can [...]

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Have you ever had to pit 169 cherries… by hand… one by one? Neither have we (thank goodness), but this was what one of the members of our Facebook group had to do recently when she was preparing cherry baby food in bulk for her little one. In the ensuing discussion about the ‘joys’ of [...]

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As you’ll know if your a regular visitor to our site, we like to include all sorts of ingredients in our baby food recipes to produce dishes that are tasty, not bland! Two ingredients that we use often – and which form the basis for tasty cooking in general – are onions and garlic. The [...]

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Despite its less-than-appealing appearance, the kiwi fruit is a real powerhouse of nutrients for your baby! With twice the vitamin C of an orange, it contains antioxidants, fibre (making it effective against constipation), calcium and almost as much potassium as a banana! But is the kiwifruit safe for baby to eat? If so, then should [...]

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We received a message this morning from Poonam in Hyderabad, India. She has devised a unique homemade baby food recipe that revived her little one’s interest in sweet potatoes and thought that other visitors to our website might like to give it a try too! Semolina with sweet potato and dates is one more recipe [...]

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With five hungry children, we’ve never had to worry too much about what to do with leftover oatmeal (or leftover porridge, if you’re in the UK). But we DO receive emails from time to time from parents who have made a little more oatmeal than they need and wonder if we know of any alternative [...]

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Do you sometimes find – when preparing finger foods like chicken nuggets or fish fingers – that the bread crumbs won’t stick to whatever it is you’re trying to coat? Over the years, we’ve come across a few tips and techniques to resolve this problem. So today, we’ve put together a little list of pointers [...]

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The title of this post is actually a little tongue in cheek… because we don’t recommend offering your baby canned soup at all! For one thing, canned soup tends to contain too much salt to make it a safe food for your little one to eat. It’s also less nutritious than homemade soup and FAR [...]

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