The Homemade Baby Food Recipes Blog

You make your own baby food because you want your little one to receive the very best nutrition, using fresh and wholesome ingredients. But did you know that there are five very simple ways to make your baby’s food even MORE nutritious? If your baby eats very little – or if you’re having difficulties getting [...]

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Pasta makes a wonderful food for babies, particularly for babies with few or no teeth who need something soft and gummable to eat! This sweet potato cannelloni is a great dish because it brings together the goodness of these nutrient packed veggies with creamy ricotta to make an easy-to-eat meal that’s full of fantastic flavour! [...]

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We’re complete garlic addicts in our house – baby and older children included! We love the wonderful flavour that it imparts to everything it’s added to – and it’s good to know that it provides lots of health benefits too! If you and your family love garlic as much as we do, then something you [...]

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If you and your little one like macaroni and cheese, then you’ll LOVE our recipe today, which is a bit of a variation on the original but is really easy to put together! This dish is rich in calcium and is also very versatile – in the ingredients listed below, we’ve used pureed carrots – [...]

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In general, you don’t need to go out of your way to offer particularly high calorie baby foods to your little one. For his first year of life, his breast milk or formula should meet all his nutritional requirements and encouraging him to consume more calories than he actually needs may lead to him drinking [...]

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Back in January this year we wrote a post about how to use up leftover baby food purees. This morning, we received a message from Rachel in Lewes in the UK, who shared an idea with us that we think is simply BRILLIANT! What Rachel does is use her purees to make homemade pasta. In [...]

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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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So… you’ve made a lovely batch of pureed vegetables for your baby and your freezer is bulging with your homemade baby food creations – but then you discover that your little one has decided he is done with purees and wants something more substantial to get his teeth (or gums) into! What can you do [...]

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Today we have a fruit baby food recipe for you that’s a little unusual… because it contains macaroni! The concept of using macaroni in sweet dishes isn’t new to us – I actually grew up in England, where my favourite winter dessert was a hot, milky macaroni pudding (similar to a sweet rice pudding). And, [...]

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If you’d like to get a little more fish into your baby’s diet – but you’re stuck for ideas how to serve it – then you may like to give today’s Quick and Easy Fish Stew recipe a try. You should speak to your doctor before introducing fish to your baby, although – for most [...]

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