The Homemade Baby Food Recipes Blog

Today’s baby food recipe is delicious, easy to prepare and packed with important nutrients for your little one… Pumpkin is a rich source of beta-carotene, the wonderful antioxidant that gives pumpkin its rich orange colour. Apples are easy to digest and some sources now suggest that they may help protect the body against asthma. Bananas, [...]

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You’ll often see beta-carotene listed as a nutrient contained in many fruits and vegetables – but have you ever wondered just how your little one uses beta-carotene and which foods are the best sources? Beta-carotene is a naturally occurring chemical, present in the pigment in plants and  responsible for the bright colour of vegetables such [...]

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Spicy baby food? if you’re new to our blog or website, then you might be surprised at the idea of spicing up baby’s meals, particularly if you’ve always been led to believe that baby food should be bland and unseasoned! But there are certain spices that add a new warmth and flavour to food without [...]

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It’s the end of the month (already!) – and that means that we have a slew of new homemade baby food recipes for you courtesy of our readers! We had some great entries last month for our Baby Food Recipe competition – and our favourite idea was for Chewy Fruit Snacks, a recipe sent to [...]

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Today we have a recipe to help you make tasty little turnovers (or empanadas) for your baby – a wonderful treat for babies who are already somewhat accomplished with finger foods! This recipe isn’t complicated, but it does involve some chilling time, so it’s a dish you need to plan ahead for. We recommend making [...]

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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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Following yesterday’s post about dill, we received a message this morning from Marianne in New York, US. She told us My husband is of Russian descent and I’ve used many of his family’s traditional recipes to cook for my own children. I thought your readers might like to try this simple salad recipe that uses [...]

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Vegetables like sweet potato, pumpkin and butternut squash are absolutely delicious when cut into cubes, roasted and served as a finger food. Roasting gives them a sort of ‘skin’ that makes them easier for baby to pick up – and also brings out the richness of their flavours. Our homemade baby food recipe for today [...]

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For some reason, there seem to be a awful lot of pumpkins in the stores at the moment (..!), so if you haven’t yet introduced your little one to this delightfully delicious veggie, then now is the time to start! Bursting with beta-carotene, vitamin C and potassium, pumpkins are an excellent food for babies from [...]

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If you’re in the US, you may be thinking that this is a trick question – after all, a sweet potato IS a yam, right? Wrong! Although sweet potatoes are often referred to as yams in parts of America, sweet potatoes and true yams are actually completely different things! Yams grow from tropical vines and [...]

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