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Chickpea and Carrot Pancakes – A Protein Packed Finger Food for Baby

Posted in Baby food preparation tips, New baby food recipes on Apr 9th, 2010

Today’s unique recipe produces a nutritious, egg free pancake for your baby that makes a wonderful, gummable finger food! This recipe calls for chickpea (or garbanzo bean) flour, a gluten-free flour that’s commonly used in Indian cuisine and which you’ll usually find sold in ethnic food stores as ‘gram flour’. Also known as besan, chickpea [...]

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Are Rice Cakes Gluten Free?

Posted in Feeding tips on Apr 16th, 2008

Many people assume that rice cakes contain no gluten at all and may be given to babies on a gluten free diet. This, however, isn’t always the case. Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley and rye and is sometimes present in oats. Some individuals are intolerant to gluten and this can result in [...]

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