The Homemade Baby Food Recipes Blog

Eggplant is one of those veggies that doesn’t get used too often as a homemade baby food ingredient – but that’s often because it’s hard to think of what to do with it!
We already have a few tasty eggplant (or aubergine) baby food ideas on our site – see the link at the foot of [...]

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Several days ago we wrote about How To Baby Size Your Pasta – that is, make regular pasta shapes small enough for your baby to manage.
Today, we have a recipe for a delicious, creamy sauce to serve with baby’s pasta, either mixed with the pieces or – as one of our children prefers it – [...]

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Tammy from Virginia in the US sent us a simple homemade baby food recipe yesterday that we thought we’d share with you today!
Tammy’s son Cody LOVES sweet potato – in fact, he loves it so much that he’s starting to refuse anything less sweet! We were discussing this with Tammy last week and suggested that [...]

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Here’s a tasty finger food recipe for baby you might like to try this weekend. It yields 4 yummy cakes, so you might like to use the extras as a side dish for the rest of the family… alternatively, you can freeze the cakes to serve on another day when you have no time to [...]

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We’ve just added a brand new section to our site to help you prepare zucchini for your baby. That won’t mean much to you if you’re in Europe – or some other parts of the world – because you’ll know zucchini as courgettes, Italian squash or vegetable marrow!
The names may be different, but the vegetable is the [...]

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Mmm… shepherd’s pie, the ideal warming winter food! We come across lots of shepherd’s pie recipes that list ground/minced beef as an ingredient… yet the word ’shepherd’ is a clear indication that there should be some lamb in there somewhere! The ‘beefy’ version is actually cottage pie – and, in our opinion, is not as [...]

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Following our recent posts about including zucchini (courgettes) in your baby food recipes, we received an interesting question from Linda in Texas yesterday. She wanted to know if she can give her baby raw zucchini as a finger food.
Not many people have considered eating zucchini raw, but it’s actually quite delicious grated or served in thin [...]

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We wrote a couple of weeks ago about how to prepare zucchini - or courgettes – as a finger food for baby. Well, that post (which you can read here) inspired one of our readers – Jen from Northern Ireland – to contact us with her recipe for a nutritious zucchini risotto. Jen told us that her [...]

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Zucchini (known as courgettes in some parts of the world) are a type of summer squash related to both cucumber and melon. The whole vegetable – skin, seeds and all – is entirely edible and packed with nutrients including vitamin C, manganese, folates and protein.
We included pureed zucchini in our homemade baby food recipes from [...]

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Todays’ recipe for cheesy vegetable muffins is very quick and easy to put together! It was sent to us by Cheryl from the UK who gives these muffins to her 11 month old son as a finger food – and she finds them a great way to get even more veggies into his diet!
Here’s [...]

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