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Posted in Baby food preparation tips, Feeding tips, Nutrition on Dec 28th, 2009
With only a few days remaining of 2009, we thought it would be a good time to take a look over all our blog posts this year and put together a list of our favorites. If you’re a recent subscriber to the Homemade Baby Food Recipes blog, then there may be some here that you [...]
Posted in New baby food recipes, Nutrition on Dec 21st, 2009
There really is no comparison between brown and white rice in terms of nutritional value for your baby – brown rice is a ‘whole’ grain with its bran and germ layers intact, whereas white rice has had almost of of its nutrients stripped away during processing.
Using brown rice instead of white rice in all your [...]
Posted in Nutrition on Dec 17th, 2009
You will sometimes see magnesium listed as a nutrient in some of the foods discussed on our website. But have you ever wondered just what magnesium is – and how it is used by your baby?
Magnesium is actually an essential element of the human diet – we can’t make it ourselves, so we have to [...]
Posted in Baby food preparation tips, New baby food recipes, Nutrition, Updates to our site on Dec 9th, 2009
We’ve just added a brand new page to our site all about using spinach in your homemade baby food recipes.
If you’ve been thinking about introducing spinach to YOUR baby, then you may find it interesting to discover why spinach is NOT recommended as an ideal first food for babies.
Plus, of course, we include some tasty [...]
Posted in Baby food preparation tips, Nutrition on Dec 8th, 2009
Debbie from Salem, Massachusetts wrote to us yesterday because she was concerned that her baby had eaten expired yogurt.
My husband fed our son while I was at work and when I got home I found he’d given him yogurt that was three days past its ‘Best Before’ date. He seems fine, but I’m worried that [...]
Posted in Allergy/intolerance, Nutrition on Dec 4th, 2009
We received a message earlier this week from Kathy, the mother of a baby with eczema.
Kathy wondered if it might be a good idea to start her little one on yogurt made with goat’s milk rather than cow’s milk, or whether she should delay yogurt altogether for the first year.
Many parents seem to notice a [...]
Posted in Baby food preparation tips, Nutrition on Nov 28th, 2009
If you were asked to name all the nutrients your baby needs for healthy growth and development, the one you might forget to mention is zinc!
Whilst we’re all familiar with the importance of vitamins and minerals like vitamin C and iron, we don’t tend to hear as much about zinc – yet it’s an essential [...]
Posted in Nutrition on Nov 23rd, 2009
Did you know that there’s an ingredient you can add to virtually any of your homemade baby food recipes that will make them even MORE nutritious?
It may sound too good to be true, but by mixing wheat germ into your baby’s meals, you’re giving him extra vitamins, minerals, iron, folic acid, protein and calcium.
What’s more, [...]
Posted in Baby food preparation tips, New baby food recipes, Nutrition, Updates to our site on Nov 18th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Baby food preparation tips, Nutrition on Nov 16th, 2009
It’s common knowledge that refined sugars are a big no-no in the diets of babies and young children. Quite aside from the harm that they do to emerging teeth, refined sugars are renowned for contributing to behavioural problems such as hyperactivity, attention deficit disorders and mood swings.
But did you know that – from a biological [...]
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