The Homemade Baby Food Recipes Blog

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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We call the avocado ‘nature’s perfect baby food’… and with good reason! Avocado – with its creamy, buttery texture – requires very little preparation and contains a considerable list of nutrients, including healthy fats, potassium, folates, fibre, vitamins, antioxidants, beta-carotene and iron! And if all that weren’t enough, studies have shown that eating avocado can [...]

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Today we have a delicious sweet ‘n savoury recipe for you combining the goodness of fresh mango with wholesome brown rice and tasty chicken. Mango – a rich source of a range of vitamins plus beta-carotene (the nutrient that gives mango its fabulous colour) – combines perfectly with savoury flavours. Some babies can begin enjoying [...]

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Today we have a very nutritious baby food recipe for you using one of our favourite ingredients – acorn squash. Rich in beta-carotene, potassium and fibre – and with a mildly sweet flavour – acorn squash makes a wonderful food for little ones. This recipe combines just a few simple ingredients with the squash, with [...]

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As you’ll know if you’re a regular visitor to our site, we just LOVE to add a little pizazz to our baby food recipes with the use of complementary herbs and spices. The rich and varied flavours they provide can help you turn the simplest purees into all sorts of yummy treats, both expanding and [...]

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If your baby suffers from infant reflux, then you’ll know that the process of introducing solids may be more fraught with anxiety than for many other parents. This, of course, is because you just don’t want to risk a new food causing a flare up of the condition in your little one. Interestingly, we have [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Celia in the UK wrote to us this weekend with a BRILLIANT tip for creating a nutritious alternative to traditional baked beans! Celia told us that her husband is addicted to baked beans and eats them all the time – so their 13 month old son Tyler wanted to eat them too. But – although [...]

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