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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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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Today’s vegetarian homemade baby food recipe is brimming with flavour and nutrients, including lots of beta-carotene from the squash plus protein and iron from the garbanzo beans. This is a very mild curry, ideal from 6-7 months of age (once baby has been separately introduced to all the ingredients). We like to mash it up [...]

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If you ask someone to make a list of ‘junk’ food, invariably pizza will be included on that list. But labelling pizza as an unhealthy food is doing a great disservice to a dish that can be very nutritious, easy to prepare and – perhaps most importantly – a big hit with children! Today’s post [...]

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If you’ve ever watched the UK healthy eating programme ‘You Are What You Eat’ hosted by Doctor Gillian McKeith (which is regularly aired on BBC America) then you’ll have heard of Dr Gillian’s favourite ingredient – the adzuki bean! She calls it the ‘aduki’ bean, which is how it’s known in the UK, but it’s [...]

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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 [...]

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Did you know that there’s an ingredient you can add to virtually any of your homemade baby food recipes that will make them even MORE nutritious? It may sound too good to be true, but by mixing wheat germ into your baby’s meals, you’re giving him extra vitamins, minerals, iron, folic acid, protein and calcium. [...]

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It’s common knowledge that refined sugars are a big no-no in the diets of babies and young children. Quite aside from the harm that they do to emerging teeth, refined sugars are renowned for contributing to behavioural problems such as hyperactivity, attention deficit disorders and mood swings. But did you know that – from a [...]

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Canned tuna is one of the best-selling forms of seafood worldwide. Tuna contains many important nutrients, including protein, B vitamins, minerals and Omega-3 essential fatty acids. These fatty acids are called ‘essential’ because they are vital to human health, but cannot be made by the body and must be obtained from food. You should – [...]

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Celia in the UK wrote to us this weekend with a BRILLIANT tip for creating a nutritious alternative to traditional baked beans! Celia told us that her husband is addicted to baked beans and eats them all the time – so their 13 month old son Tyler wanted to eat them too. But – although [...]

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