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Posted in Baby food preparation tips, Nutrition on Jul 7th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Baby food preparation tips, New baby food recipes on Jun 28th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Baby food preparation tips on Jun 25th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in New baby food recipes, Nutrition on May 28th, 2010
Your amazing baby grows at a tremendous rate during his first year. That incredible growth also applies to his brain, which makes millions of new connections as he responds to the world around him. As parents, we help with the development of our little ones’ brains by providing plenty of stimulation and exposing them to [...]
Posted in Baby food preparation tips, Safety recalls and warnings on Feb 2nd, 2010
Did you know that there’s a sweetener you can add to your baby’s food that actually provides some nutrients too? It sounds a little too good to be true, but blackstrap molasses adds a subtle sweetness to foods and is an excellent source of nutrition in its own right. So what is blackstrap molasses – [...]
Posted in New baby food recipes on Jan 11th, 2010
Is it cold in your corner of the world? We’re actually feeling very chilly here in the Bahamas right now! I know we’re nowhere near as cold as some places (our family in the UK has been telling us all about the ice and snow everyone is experiencing there) – but this is certainly the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Baby food preparation tips, Feeding tips, Travel tips on Jan 24th, 2009
We received an interesting question today from Diana in Toronto, Canada who asked us My husband and I are taking a trip to Mexico and bringing our daughter. She will be 8.5 months at the time. I will not have access to a kitchenette or refrigerator as we are staying at an all inclusive resort. [...]
Posted in Baby food preparation tips, New baby food recipes, Nutrition, Updates to our site on Nov 19th, 2008
We recently wrote an article about the suitability (or not!) of baby rice as a first food for little ones. Here’s the link in case you missed it. One of the healthy alternatives to rice cereal we suggested was oatmeal. Oatmeal – also known as porridge in some parts of the world – is a [...]
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