Baby food recipes and snacks

nozzadamozza

that site looks super duper - thanks nic2075 and Butterfly Brain- am way to work out what i need and hope i can change my tesco order in time!!!!

thanks for the recommendation for the rachel allen book wssla00- am going to have find it tomorrow and have a looksy:)

arwenelf

My eldest by eight months was having whatever we had just mashed down - I don't add salt anyway when cooking. My youngest was weaned the baby led weaning way so nothing was mashed or pureed - he was eating steak at six months!!!!!!

nikki_angel

Have you tried baby-led weaning? Baby just eats what you do. Not mushed up though. Gill Rapely has a really good book about it.

It is working really well for us and it means we are eating more healthy and the food bill is less.

nozzadamozza

i have never heard of baby led weaning..i found (well still find) it a bit confusing really.. i was worried about making him ill so have been purree-ing veg and fruit and mixing that into ready made meals (Ellas Kitchen are lovely but are expensive and he scoffs them lol)

there are a few recipes from the Ananbel Karmel website that i think i will try out but it would be good to have us all eating the same thing

nozzadamozza

will check out Gill Rapely too:)

nikki_angel

http://www.babyandbump.com/weaning-nutrition/

I find this is a good board to refer to x

Chakani

My DS is now 14 months, and I started with Annabel Karmel, (started at 5 months as he was a big boy), but from about 6-7 months he has always eaten exactly what we do - including chilli and curry - I just give him a bigger proportion of rice and a smaller proportion of spicy stuff if I think it's too hot for him. It definitely seems to help them to get used to a wide range of foods, and so less fussy than children of the same age who are only used to "baby" foods.

The only concession I make is I now cook mostly without salt, but that has improved all our diets, and I put salt on the table for adults to season their own if they want.

Tigsteroonie

I'm still at the early, puree stage - I batch nuke (microwave) various vegetables, blitz (puree) them, freeze them and then bag them as individual ingredients rather than grouped into meals - that way Andrew can have a variety of mixes of veg & fruit. As he develops, I'll simply blitz simply-cooked meat and fish and continue to do the same, up until the point where I think he can have part of our own meal mashed down.

ALWAYS_POOR

When my oldest was a baby I fed her jars of baby food - she is the most fussy eater ever now. When the second came along I just pureed everything we had - now she'll eat anything (within reason, lol) - I think that says it all!

valk_scot

I used to make special food for my first baby. By the third I was mushing up whatever her two brothers were getting, which was usually what we parents were getting. She's grown up to be the least fussy eater of the three. (Have you ever tasted jar or packet baby food? You just do not want to get them used to thinking that's what food should be.) As long as there's not any added salt or preservatives/colouring/food chemicals in it, the baby will be fine. If you're doubtful about feeding a baby blended coq-au-vin or whatever, just mash up the accompanying vegetables and potatoes or whatever, add a pinch of cheese and some milk and call it Baby Vegetable Gratin. Vegetable curry or Daal blended with boiled rice is another good one and I used to put a dab of minty yoghurt into spicy foods to cool them down a bit.

PS. I will admit now I once blended a fish finger, two chips and a spoonful of cooked peas for my daughter because that's what the boys were getting. She loved it.....