The Homemade Baby Food Recipes Blog

Eggplant is one of those veggies that doesn’t get used too often as a homemade baby food ingredient – but that’s often because it’s hard to think of what to do with it!
We already have a few tasty eggplant (or aubergine) baby food ideas on our site – see the link at the foot of [...]

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Nothing says fall like the taste of pumpkin – and one of our favourite ways to prepare it at this time of year is by making a delicious soup!
Today’s Spiced Pumpkin Soup recipe contains the wonderful flavours of traditional pumpkin pie spices and is both silky and sumptuous! A big favourite with our whole family, [...]

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Today’s chicken baby food recipe uses dried plums – otherwise known as prunes – to add sweetness and a welcome boost of extra nutrients to baby’s dinner.
It’s a fairly sophisticated recipe which includes mild spices, onions and garlic, which you might prefer to serve to your baby once he’s already been introduced to more basic [...]

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Sausages are not – in general – a good food for babies. They tend to be high in salt and the less expensive brands often contain undesirable ingredients such as connective tissue – certainly NOT want you want to be introducing your little one to!
Today’s recipe, however, is for yummy ’sausages’ made with cheese, that [...]

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So – when you are introducing new foods to your baby, it’s important to follow the ‘four day rule’. This means giving your baby the new food, then waiting for AT LEAST four days before giving him another new food.
Why is this important?
Well, if your little one has a bad reaction to peaches, for example, [...]

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Here’s a tasty finger food recipe for baby you might like to try this weekend. It yields 4 yummy cakes, so you might like to use the extras as a side dish for the rest of the family… alternatively, you can freeze the cakes to serve on another day when you have no time to [...]

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What a perfect summer baby food recipe! This wonderful pasta sauce, made with fresh vegetables, is extremely simple to prepare and is full of colour and flavour. We use this recipe often, as a dish for the entire family – and it’s ideal served with the whole wheat pasta shapes of your baby’s choice, either [...]

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If you thought that samosas had to be spicy and dripping in oil, think again! These yummy sweet potato samosas are baked in the oven and are not ’spicy hot’ at all! They make a wonderful finger food for older babies who are biting and chewing comfortably and they are very versatile, equally delicious served [...]

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Mmm… shepherd’s pie, the ideal warming winter food! We come across lots of shepherd’s pie recipes that list ground/minced beef as an ingredient… yet the word ’shepherd’ is a clear indication that there should be some lamb in there somewhere! The ‘beefy’ version is actually cottage pie – and, in our opinion, is not as [...]

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We wrote a couple of weeks ago about how to prepare zucchini - or courgettes – as a finger food for baby. Well, that post (which you can read here) inspired one of our readers – Jen from Northern Ireland – to contact us with her recipe for a nutritious zucchini risotto. Jen told us that her [...]

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