Tasty new homemade baby food recipes, feeding tips, baby related news, safety recalls, updates to our site and more!
Posted in Baby food preparation tips on Jun 21st, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Baby food preparation tips on Jun 14th, 2010
We received a message over the weekend from Rene in Plymouth, UK. She told us… I made a batch of homemade baby food and froze it in an ice cube tray with a lid. My husband opened the lid to see what was inside and didn’t seal it again properly, and now a couple of [...]
Posted in Baby food preparation tips, Travel tips on Feb 25th, 2010
We received a message earlier this month from mom Deena, who asked us about traveling with homemade baby food. One of her questions was whether it is better to heat baby’s meal before going out – and then keep it warm until feeding time – or whether to take out cold baby food cubes, keep [...]
Posted in Baby food preparation tips on Feb 17th, 2010
Did you ever notice that if you buy a ‘run-of-the-mill’ pack of cheese, it’s often shrink-wrapped in plastic – but if you splash out on a ‘speciality’ cheese it’s usually wrapped in waxed paper? As any cheese connoisseur will tell you, that’s because plastic wrap can sometimes ruin a perfectly good piece of cheese (so [...]
Posted in Nutrition on Apr 20th, 2009
No doubt you’ve seen the ads on TV for Green Bags, which are designed to preserve fresh produce for up to 10 times its normal life. Well, last month we received a message from Clementine in Texas, asking whether we thought they were a good idea. To be frank, our instant reaction to Green Bags [...]
Posted in Great baby products on Apr 15th, 2009
Many parents are wary of freezing their baby’s food in regular plastic ice cube trays. This is particularly true in the US and Canada, where concerns over potentially harmful chemicals such as BPA and phthalates leaching into baby food from plastic containers has led to a gradual elimination of their use in baby feeding equipment. Fortunately, there [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 13th, 2008
Earlier this week we received an e-mail from a concerned parent who was worried that homemade baby food would not be as safe for her little one as the jarred variety. We have received similar questions in the past and it set us to thinking about why parents might perceive it risky – or less [...]
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