The Homemade Baby Food Recipes Blog

Need a homemade baby food recipe that you can put together in under five minutes? Then why not give this Tuna, Melon and Avocado Recipe a try. It tastes divine, it can be adapted for different stages of development and just look at some of the nutrients it provides…. Protein, B vitamins and Omega-3 essential [...]

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As you’ll know if your a regular visitor to our site, we like to include all sorts of ingredients in our baby food recipes to produce dishes that are tasty, not bland! Two ingredients that we use often – and which form the basis for tasty cooking in general – are onions and garlic. The [...]

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Dried fruit – which can be found in any grocery store but most abundantly, perhaps, in health stores – has a reputation for being…er…healthy! But is dried fruit actually as healthy as fresh fruit for your baby? Whilst dried fruit does have SOME advantages over fresh, truly fresh fruit will almost always be the healthiest [...]

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Your amazing baby grows at a tremendous rate during his first year. That incredible growth also applies to his brain, which makes millions of new connections as he responds to the world around him. As parents, we help with the development of our little ones’ brains by providing plenty of stimulation and exposing them to [...]

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One of our favourite vegetables for making baby food – particularly when we lived in England – was the rutabaga (also known as the swede!). Relatively inexpensive, this deceptively unattractive root vegetable has SO many things going for it! Unfortunately, though, it seems to be rather unfashionable these days and is vastly under-used as a [...]

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If your baby suffers from infant reflux, then you’ll know that the process of introducing solids may be more fraught with anxiety than for many other parents. This, of course, is because you just don’t want to risk a new food causing a flare up of the condition in your little one. Interestingly, we have [...]

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A member of our baby food group on Facebook asked yesterday about when babies can eat Jerusalem artichokes, so we thought it would be a good idea to give these interesting veggies a mention here on our blog today. Jerusalem artichokes – otherwise known as Sunchokes – are not related to artichokes at all. Instead, [...]

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If you were asked to name all the nutrients your baby needs for healthy growth and development, the one you might forget to mention is zinc! Whilst we’re all familiar with the importance of vitamins and minerals like vitamin C and iron, we don’t tend to hear as much about zinc – yet it’s an [...]

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We received a message this morning from Deborah in Oxford, England, asking if cucumber is safe for babies to eat. My mother-in-law was making salad and gave my son Reece a wedge to chew on which (I must admit) he loved! But he’s never had cucumber before – is it safe for babies to eat [...]

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We often list garlic as an ingredient in our baby food recipes and that sometimes prompts messages from our visitors. Some are from parents wondering if it’s really OK to feed babies garlic – and others are from parents saying they’re surprised just how much their little ones enjoy recipes with garlic added to them! [...]

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