The Homemade Baby Food Recipes Blog

Today’s unique recipe produces a nutritious, egg free pancake for your baby that makes a wonderful, gummable finger food! This recipe calls for chickpea (or garbanzo bean) flour, a gluten-free flour that’s commonly used in Indian cuisine and which you’ll usually find sold in ethnic food stores as ‘gram flour’. Also known as besan, chickpea [...]

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Today we have a nice and easy puree recipe for you incorporating vegetables AND fruit, resulting in a tempting sweet flavour your baby will enjoy. What’s more, everything is cooked in one pot, so clean up is easy too! This puree is perfect for babies from around 7 months of age. Although fairly smooth when [...]

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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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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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Today we have an easy recipe for you that combines three delicious ingredients – sweet potato, parsnip and pear. The result is a puree so sumptuously sweet and tempting that your little one won’t even realize that he’s eating veggies! This recipe is ideal for babies from 6 months of age (or earlier if you [...]

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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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Did you know that there’s a sweetener you can add to your baby’s food that actually provides some nutrients too? It sounds a little too good to be true, but blackstrap molasses adds a subtle sweetness to foods and is an excellent source of nutrition in its own right. So what is blackstrap molasses – [...]

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If you ask someone to make a list of ‘junk’ food, invariably pizza will be included on that list. But labelling pizza as an unhealthy food is doing a great disservice to a dish that can be very nutritious, easy to prepare and – perhaps most importantly – a big hit with children! Today’s post [...]

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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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