The Homemade Baby Food Recipes Blog

Butternut squash is one of our favourite baby foods! Its vibrant colour is a great indicator of the large amount of beta-carotene and other nutrients it contains… and its soft texture is just perfect for baby food beginners! It makes a good finger food, too – steamed butternut squash dice tossed with a little cinnamon [...]

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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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With its wonderful aromatic spices, hint of coconut and nutrient packed veggies, this is the perfect homemade baby food recipe for your little gourmet! This recipe works as well for adults as it does for tiny diners, but we like to add some chili and a good dash of lime when we are eating it [...]

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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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With only a few days remaining of 2009, we thought it would be a good time to take a look over all our blog posts this year and put together a list of our favorites. If you’re a recent subscriber to the Homemade Baby Food Recipes blog, then there may be some here that you [...]

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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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We’d like to wish all of you who celebrate it a VERY happy Diwali this weekend! What’s more, we even have a baby food recipe to help your little one celebrate the Festival of Lights along with you – courtesy of our visitor Asha, from India. Asha told us how Diwali is often celebrated with the [...]

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Today’s chicken baby food recipe uses dried plums – otherwise known as prunes – to add sweetness and a welcome boost of extra nutrients to baby’s dinner. It’s a fairly sophisticated recipe which includes mild spices, onions and garlic, which you might prefer to serve to your baby once he’s already been introduced to more [...]

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Turmeric is so much more than just a ingredient for flavouring curries! It has extensive health-promoting properties – which people in countries around the world have both recognized and taken advantage of for many years – and may be particularly important in the diet of young children. Today we’re looking at this richly coloured spice [...]

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So – when you are introducing new foods to your baby, it’s important to follow the ‘four day rule’. This means giving your baby the new food, then waiting for AT LEAST four days before giving him another new food. Why is this important? Well, if your little one has a bad reaction to peaches, [...]

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