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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With five hungry children, we’ve never had to worry too much about what to do with leftover oatmeal (or leftover porridge, if you’re in the UK). But we DO receive emails from time to time from parents who have made a little more oatmeal than they need and wonder if we know of any alternative [...]

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The title of this post is actually a little tongue in cheek… because we don’t recommend offering your baby canned soup at all! For one thing, canned soup tends to contain too much salt to make it a safe food for your little one to eat. It’s also less nutritious than homemade soup and FAR [...]

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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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As you’ll know if you’re a regular visitor to our site, we just LOVE to add a little pizazz to our baby food recipes with the use of complementary herbs and spices. The rich and varied flavours they provide can help you turn the simplest purees into all sorts of yummy treats, both expanding and [...]

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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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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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Last week we wrote a post about how to make healthy, homemade pizza, in which we mentioned using tomato puree. Our post prompted a message from mom Hayley in Wales, UK, who wrote to tell us how she makes her own tomato puree by oven-roasting the tomatoes. Hayley was happy for us to share her [...]

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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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If your use of dill is limited to fish dishes – or if you’ve never used dill at all – then today’s post will help you discover some tasty ways to make your baby’s food even more dill-icious! Dill comes in two forms – dill weed (a herb) and dill seed (a spice). Dill weed [...]

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