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Chicken nuggets… the name just conjures up images of unhealthy, greasy, ‘junk’ food, doesn’t it?
But chicken nuggets don’t HAVE to be unhealthy – with a few modifications, a standard recipe for chicken nuggets can produce a wonderfully tasty and nutritious finger food for your baby!
Our recipe calls for baking the nuggets instead of frying them. [...]

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Several days ago we wrote about How To Baby Size Your Pasta – that is, make regular pasta shapes small enough for your baby to manage.
Today, we have a recipe for a delicious, creamy sauce to serve with baby’s pasta, either mixed with the pieces or – as one of our children prefers it – [...]

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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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Brown rice is a highly nutritious food that we thoroughly recommend including in your baby’s diet (AND your own if you’ve only eaten white rice up to now!).
But if it takes your little one (or you)  some time to begin to appreciate the unique ‘nuttiness’ of plain brown rice, then we have good news for [...]

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Todays’ recipe for cheesy vegetable muffins is very quick and easy to put together! It was sent to us by Cheryl from the UK who gives these muffins to her 11 month old son as a finger food – and she finds them a great way to get even more veggies into his diet!
Here’s [...]

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Today marks the start of National Vegetarian Week in the UK – so we have a nice and easy recipe for a yummy Trio of Roasted Root Vegetables for all those veggie babies out there (which, of course, can be enjoyed by all non-veggie babies too!).
Roasting vegetables enhances their natural sweetness and even babies who [...]

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Today we share with you a recipe for homemade fish fingers that’s so quick and easy you’ll never look at the store-bought variety again!
Fish is a wonderful food for the whole family – but many commercially made fish fingers are lacking in nutritional value – not to mention flavour! This recipe does NOT involve mincing [...]

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Have you ever thought about cooking spaghetti squash for your baby, but you’re not sure how to prepare it? Then here are some handy spaghetti squash facts and a couple of yummy recipes to get you started!

The spaghetti squash is also known as vegetable marrow, noodle squash, spaghetti marrow, squaghetti or vegetable spaghetti!
It is given [...]

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