Baby food recipes and snacks

purpledaffodil

Lakeland used to do yoghurt sized pots very cheaply which were great for freezing meals in. To avoid too much wheat, you can make cauliflower cheeese just by liquidizing cooked cauliflower, cheese and hot milk. I do agree with all the others who think organic can be a bit of a con. I grew up on a market garden where the main organic fertilizer was "sludge" - treated sewage from the local sewage farm. Yum Yum!

grahamliza4

I'm so glad to see somebody who values organics and realises a lot of the everyday things we eat are made of ****. Good on ya. In 10 years time when it all comes out that cancer, declining fertiliity rates, etc is due to the bad things happening to our food we'll be proved right.

My first son was born with a milk intolerance (thankfully over it now) and had to have soy formula. NOT happy about the crap that went it to it but had no choice.

Supermarket organics arent too great - make sure anything you buy has a soil association mark on it. Do they exist in Ireland?

My second son was 11lbs 6oz at birth and now eats 3 (organic!) weetabix&banana for breakfast at 11months! Son #1 who is nearly three and only weighed 8lbs 4.5oz hardly eats at all. Lucky if he finishes one bowl of porridge&banana. Few bites and he's 'fizished!'

Make your own as it's def cheaper. Big tubs of yoghurt mixed with pureed fruit. Since proper organic fruit is very seasonal, buy loads of red&black currants, plums, summer fruits, etc now and puree and freeze as in a couple of months they won't be around (unless you buy supermarket air-freighted - boo hiss!).

Get a breadmaker - esp if you live far away from supermarket. Processed bread is full of rubbish. With a breadmaker you can make a mini-loaf every night really easily.

katepnlo

borderlakland wrote: »

Discodee wrote: »

Am wondering why the OP did not breast feed given her budget and that she wants the best for baby?

Its hard work and all they do is feed but great benefits are reaped



even though we are all well aware of the benefits of breast feeding i don't thinkits fair to query why the op isn't breast feeding. it is very hard and not everyone gets the help they need.it can be a very hard time and you will do anything anyone suggest to satisfy your lo or with the right support and help it can be v rewarding and satisfying for mum and lo. i have had both experiences twice and would never wonder why someone wasn't breast feeding

As a mum i know the feelings in regards to breast feeding, but i would like to say the poster queried it as the op has very strong feelings about a total organic diet..so the poster was simply making a query as formula is well...... not a natural or organic product!
I am not saying this in anything but an honest way. i have 4 children and my first two ended up on formula, first due to misinformation from my health visitor and lack of support and my second due to physical problems my child had due to genetic problems.
But it still stands it is a chemical packed substitute, so that is why they mentioned it.

As for organic diet as you have found out cooking from scratch can make huge amounts of food, i also used mostly organic food with my third and fourth child, although i didn't always buy organic meat..but anyway, with the suggested age of weaning being approx 6m you can give baby finger food,as soon as she is grabbing out and can gum food to death then she can have finger food, chunks of cauli and broc, carots, cheese, sweet potatoe is a good tasty one, bannana nice bread etc etc etc, just put some cooked veg on a plate to start her off and let her take the lead, trial and error, she will let you know what she can eat.
My lot have had wheatbix from 6m..porridge, greek yog (yummy!) for brekfast.

It is also alot easier for her to eat what you eat, you can adjust things for her, pasta bolognaise..i presume you cook from scratch from how you talk about food. she can have that, just don't add any salt. Curry,when you make curry take a portion out for her before you add anything hot. Or make a Korma,she can have that.
Roast dinner is easy, jsut don't add gravey, give it to her on a plate as finger food.
tuna pasta, nice n easy, no added salt, let her pick at it like finger food. cucumber chopped on the side..
umm mashed potatoes or winter veg mash (sweet pots parsnips and potatoes) strips of chicken (could always pur some chicken into it)

Chips (cut potatoes, sweet potatoes, parsnips,sweed etc into strips, part boil, put some olive oil in a pan and heat in the oven till very hot, through vegie chips in.cook until done...Lovvveeelyyyy we eat all teh above..i love veg chips for me smothered in salt n vinigar:D )

omlettes, can add anything to them to suit you or baby, cut into strips for baby.
While i do do all of the above i totaly hold my hands up to thinking 'sod it i will buy a few jars' when my latest was smaller!
kate

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Hi All,

I am trying to get my daughter of 10 months off jar food and on to proper food, this was a sucess with my son when he was this age, but my DD is a bit fussy.

I have done some things which she has taken to but I want to make her some puddings but have no idea. She doesn't mind lumpy food which is a blessing.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Many thanks,

Tea

Penelope_Penguin

Hi, Tea! Have to say that it's a long time since I weaned the Small Penguins They really liked *finger food* - small cubes of bread, cheese, bread sticks, fruit, carrot and celery sticks, etc, etc.

Alternatively, try this recent thread - Feeding baby on a budget.

HTH, Penny. x

angie_loves_veg

I started with custard (you could make this with formula or regular milk).

Once dd liked this, I added stewed fruit (apples, pears, plums whatever) or fresh fruit (chopped banana, chopped peaches etc)

I also remember making 'cheesecake' - I mixed cream cheese (philli) and a little yogurt, added a bit of fruit (as above) and sometimes sprinkled it with a crushed digestive (or similar).. that *always* went down well!

I'm sure I made dd ice cream, and frozen yogurt.

other thoughts.......jelly, maybe made with some milk?

Chipps

Why not just give baby what you are eating - just don't add salt to veges etc when you cook it (or if you really must, then not till the last minute after you have taken out baby's portion. That way she will get used to your cooking anyway.
As far as dessert goes, the same applies (apart from the bit about the salt LOL) But maybe don't overdo the sugar! It will be healthier for all of you, too!
So long as you are cooking nice healthy food for yourselves, it shouldn't be any problem giving the same to your daughter - the only difference I did make when ours were little was using vegetable water instead of gravy as gravy powder has a lot of salt in it.

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Thanks for all your help, you have given me some inspiration.

Will definately try the cheesecake receipe.

Tea

jannyannie

You could also try homemade rice pudding. My son used to have the same as us, without the salt. He now eats anything at 6.

Refund_Queen

Hi everyone,

I am a mum to 4 year old twins and I am simply not a 'bung ingredients together and make a wonderful meal' kinda person. I used to stick to the usual favourites to feed my girls as when I invariably tried new meals they turned their noses up and then I'd have 2 screaming hungry babies :eek: :eek: and no food prepared, sounds pathetic but I found it a real nightmare!

Well, baby 3 is on its way :j and i'm already thinking about weaning and future meals!! I wondered whether people would put their chefs hats on and share their recipes with me and others here. I sometimes look at jarred food like Heinz 'Mothers Own' range and see recipes like Lamb Hotpot with seasonal veggies and think well I can mash a banana, puree some carrots but thats about it!! I have no flare with food.

Would love to try things like butternut squash, leeks, courgettes....! Can anyone help with early weaning foods and then complete meals?!

Thanks
x