Baby food recipes and snacks

ClaireLR

Pink-winged wrote: »

Hi Claire,

This thread has some good ideas:

Baby food recipes and snacks

I'll add your thread to it once you've had more replies.

Pink

Thanks - forgot to do a search

lisakay_2

:DIt's been a while since my 2 were that small, and i'm just trying to remember what they used to have at that age. I know they used to like cheese cubes, raisins, hm breadsticks/croutons. pastry whirls were always popular, roll pastry out into a rectangle and spread tomato puree/passata, top with cheese, roll, slice and bake( or use other fillings). they've always liked baby prawns but not sure at what age you can give them. if you make fruit bread, you can slice and freeze and take out one slice at a time. hope you find a couple of these ideas useful x

Natterjack88

I was just wondering if anyone could point me the direction of a thread for recipes for homemade baby food? I had a quick look on the www and there doesn't actually seem to be much out there- or maybe I haven't look hard enough! I am trying to become DF and have realised how expensive shop bought baby food actually is!

TIA

Natter

keelyjrs

I don't recall ever seeing a thread on it, some of the things I used to do though..

pureed spinach and cheese
parsnip, carrot and cheese
mushrooms, bean sprouts and noodles ( I used to have mushroom chow mein and puree a load of it for him

Basically we used to just puree whatever we were having before we had salted it. I used to freeze it in an ice cube tray and then keep the blocks in freezer bags. When you want them, just pop a couple in the microwave
Hope this helps x

Also Annabel Karmel does a brilliant book on baby food, I'd advise you have a look on ebay or amazon x

squeaky

This thread may help:- Baby food recipes and snacks

lilyjune

I'm gearing up to do the Grocery Challenge in April for the first time and I was just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on what I could make instead of buying the Organix range of snacks for my baby and toddler.

At the moment, I'm buying the Apple rice cakes which they both eat, the tomato wheels/carrot stick things that the baby eats and TOTALLY LOVES and the carrot cake and orange and apple mini-bars for the toddler.

They do both eat sticks of cucumber and fruit, toddler in particular. Toddler eats carrot sticks too sometimes and he has raisins but think the baby is still too young at 10 months.

I would like to replace the tomato wheels/carrot stick range of things with something savoury in particular but can't think of anything.

Any thoughts would be really welcome

Pink.

Hi lilyjune,

This thread should give you some ideas:

Baby food recipes and snacks

I'll add your thread to it later to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

rachbc

Ordinary rice cakes - with or without toppings , plain bread sticks - with or without dips

crumpets, teacakes, pitta, scotch pancakes - hm ones with banana in the batter, I also tried a recipe with cottage cheese in the batter - much nicer than they sound!

Anything on toast!

Pink.

Gosh, you've taken me down memory lane.....these are some of the things mine enjoyed when they were small...

Toast spread with butter and marmite
Cheese on toast
Egg in a cup
Cheese chopped into long sticks
Tiny sandwiches with soft fillings that they could suck/chew on
As much sliced fruit/veg as they would eat
Bones. Yes really, bones! My middle child loved ribs from an early age (perhaps not quite as young as yours) and spent forever sucking on the bones afterwards.
Breadsticks
Cooked pasta, or fish
Pancakes
French toast soldiers

nic2075

My DD is 10 months too, I also buy her the Organix range, but as its so expensive she doesn't get them every snack, or even every day.

She has-
Oatcakes, crackers with Philly, halved baby tomatoes, grapes, raisins (from the baking aisle, not the wee boxes), pancakes, crumpets, bread sticks, cucumber and carrot sticks, mini sandwiches, plain rice cakes ( no salt), toast fingers. I also buy the Organix animal biscuits, there is loads in a box, so they last longer. Hth