The Homemade Baby Food Recipes Blog

One question we are often asked is whether or not it is considered safe to reheat rice – and it’s certainly  true that warming up previously cooked rice is considered dangerous by many.
It’s also true that reheated rice IS one of the most common sources of foodborne illness – but it’s not actually the reheating [...]

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Yesterday we received a message from Jennifer in Miami, US, regarding her daughter Olivia (6 months). Jennifer was happy for us to publish her message and our reply here, in case there are other parents in the same situation who may find the information useful.
Jennifer told us
I introduced Olivia to solids 2 weeks ago. So [...]

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We love hearing from parents around the world about how and when babies are introduced to solids in different cultures. So we enjoyed a message we received this weekend from Natalie, an Australian expat living with her Chinese husband and his family in Beijing.
She told us about congee – a rice dish that’s often served [...]

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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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