The Homemade Baby Food Recipes Blog

You may be familiar with okra as an ingredient in curries… or as a vegetable that’s breaded and deep fried… or you may not be familiar with okra at all!
This weird and wonderful vegetable – which, bizarrely, is part of the mallow family and related to cotton! – is loved by many and detested by [...]

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Barley is a type of grain you may not have considered serving as a breakfast cereal. Rich in fibre and minerals, it also contains B vitamins – and it has a lovely nutty flavour.
Most of us are familiar with pearl barley, which is most commonly used in soups and stews. And whilst pearl barley may [...]

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Breakfast has always been one of our babies’ favourite meals of the day, probably because it comes after a good night’s sleep (we hope!) and our little ones are happy… and hungry!
Now that our youngest family member (Joe) is 10 months of age, he’s REALLY enjoying his finger foods – and never more so than [...]

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When we lived in England, a ‘biscuit’ was what would be known as a ‘cookie’ in the US.
Here in the Bahamas, however, the word ‘biscuit’ is generally used in the same way as in America – it means a little bread, made with a leavening agent and is pretty much the same thing as what [...]

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Iron is an essential nutrient for your baby – and making sure that his iron levels are sufficient is very important for his healthy growth and development.
So we are delighted to publish this month’s winning recipe in our Baby Food Recipes Competition, which was sent in to us by Sophie Pennington-Ridge from the UK.
Sophie’s recipe [...]

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A friend of ours once described colcannon as ‘posh mash’ (mash being the common name in England for simple mashed potatoes). And her description was quite accurate, in that colcannon IS a step above regular mashed potatoes, steeped in rich Irish tradition!
We thought we’d post about colcannon today for two reasons – one, because we [...]

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Chicken nuggets… the name just conjures up images of unhealthy, greasy, ‘junk’ food, doesn’t it?
But chicken nuggets don’t HAVE to be unhealthy – with a few modifications, a standard recipe for chicken nuggets can produce a wonderfully tasty and nutritious finger food for your baby!
Our recipe calls for baking the nuggets instead of frying them. [...]

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If you’re in the US, you may be thinking that this is a trick question – after all, a sweet potato IS a yam, right?
Wrong!
Although sweet potatoes are often referred to as yams in parts of America, sweet potatoes and true yams are actually completely different things!
Yams grow from tropical vines and are usually bigger [...]

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Did you know that green beans are packed with an amazing array of nutrients, including iron – the mineral that plays such an important part in your baby’s healthy growth and development?
If you haven’t yet introduced the humble green bean into your baby’s diet, then you might just want to give it a try after [...]

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After a year of making sure your baby only eats healthy, homemade baby foods, the thought of giving him a cake loaded with sugar on his first birthday can really ‘go against the grain’ (excuse the pun!).
We do have some Healthy First Birthday Cake Recipes on our site – but another option is to make [...]

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