The Homemade Baby Food Recipes Blog

Chicken and sage are really delicious when cooked together and this recipe combines them with the goodness of sweet potato to produce a rich and tasty puree your baby will love. We’ve called this a puree, but it’s actually quite versatile. Instead of blitzing everything in the food processor as described below, you can try [...]

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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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One of our favourite vegetables for making baby food – particularly when we lived in England – was the rutabaga (also known as the swede!). Relatively inexpensive, this deceptively unattractive root vegetable has SO many things going for it! Unfortunately, though, it seems to be rather unfashionable these days and is vastly under-used as a [...]

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Butternut squash is one of our favourite baby foods! Its vibrant colour is a great indicator of the large amount of beta-carotene and other nutrients it contains… and its soft texture is just perfect for baby food beginners! It makes a good finger food, too – steamed butternut squash dice tossed with a little cinnamon [...]

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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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These baked mozzarella sticks are deliciously goo-ey and make a great snack food for older babies to eat with their fingers! We recommend these from about 12 months plus, as they have rather a crunch to them (we actually served them as a party food on our youngest daughter’s first birthday!). Traditionally considered to be [...]

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Did you know that canned (or tinned) sardines are brimming with beneficial nutrients for your baby? They are rich in omega 3 fatty acids, which not only help with the development of your baby’s brain, but are also a great immunity booster. Sardines are also very high in calcium (particularly when packed with their bones) [...]

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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 [...]

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A member of our baby food group on Facebook asked yesterday about when babies can eat Jerusalem artichokes, so we thought it would be a good idea to give these interesting veggies a mention here on our blog today. Jerusalem artichokes – otherwise known as Sunchokes – are not related to artichokes at all. Instead, [...]

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We hope that you and your little ones enjoyed the holidays – and if, like us, you’re left with rather a lot of turkey and trying to come up with a unique way of serving some of it to your baby, then we have a yummy recipe you might like to try! Do remember to [...]

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