Baby food recipes and snacks

lollyred1

Preety lucky in that my 6 month old will eat anything and everything except choclate puddings??? Dont know if you have seen them but heinz have bought out a range called cook at home which includes gravys and sauces i find these over veg or other foods are really nice and little one makes lots of happy noises

Refund_Queen

bommer wrote: »

Sorry wouldn't call 4 year olds - babies now.

Think you need to sort these two out first. I have always cooked fresh for my two twins and they are better with good home cooked meat and veg or even my vegetarian speg bol or cottage pie than with any processed or "produced meal in a jar".

What is wrong with meat i.e roated chicken turkey beaf, pork, lamb potatoes and several veg with a bit of gravy all wizzed up in a blender -thats 5 days a week.

I don't call my 4 year olds babies!! I meant when they were babies.

My main meals are meat, potato & veg or similar so feel that I am feeding them well, thank you and I don't think I need to 'sort them out first'. Just feel that a bit of variety never hurts and that why I started this thread.

Penelope, thanks for that link. I did do a quick search before I started a new thread but couldnt see anything like this so thanks again.

brila

I mostly give DS (now 13 mo) whatever we are eating (or ate the previous night). At first he just had the veg whizzed up in the food processor (with a bit of the "juice" from the bottom of the steamer if not mushy enough). Then gradually he moved on to more of the meal in the food processor (meat, lentils etc.). I think that the earlier they eat the same as the rest of the fmaily, the easier it is all round - I don't want to be cooking different meals for everyone forever. Also I am very big on eating - I will always eat, so there will always be something for the baby to eat. If I had to cook him different things, it might be less likely to happen and I would be in a kitchen-panic. For teatime, he has things like boiled egg and soldiers, cheese on toast, veg sticks (lightly steamed) with hummous. It tends to be more of a finger food type of meal. There's some weaning theory called baby-led weaning or something like that which extolls the value of self-feeding (google it?), but I just liked having a meal where he could play with his food a bit more and I could have my hands freer.

Ice cube trays are great - but knock the frozen cubes into a freezer bag (and label it). Don't need so many ice sube trays then and I found trying to knock a couple of cubes out with DS yowling about where was his nosh and did no one love him rather too stressful.

If your four year olds are good eaters then you have obviously already done a great job (and with twins!). Nothing wrong with trying new things though - but why not try them for the whole family? Especially squashes which are pretty big. Cook these things now and then maybe it won't be so new and stressful when you are trying to wean the baby?

Mice_Elf

My little one loved curries when I was weaning her.

I used to either buy the "meat only" jars or blend up whatever meat we had, throw in peas, carrots, sweetcorn, a touch of curry powder, tsp or so of rice and whizz it all up together. If it was too stodgy, I'd thin it down with some milk.

Once we'd tried her on a variety of foods without noticing any issues, she just had whatever we were having as I never cook with salt, so whatever we had was good for her. She's now 2 1/2 and will eat EVERYTHING. Loves her fruit and veg and will often ask for broccoli and carrots or frozen peas. Doesn't like sweets, biscuits or jelly though. (HOORAY!!!)

Favourites when we were weaning were butternut squash, or avocado and banana. Oh and papaya.

Snaggles

Hiya, hope you don't mind me ressurecting this thread, but I'm trying to come up with new meal ideas for my daughter who is 7 months old.

She has had basic veg and fruit purees and has enjoyed pretty much ALL of them (for an easy, no-cook meal, mash a banana and an avocado together - we call it avabanana...lol).

I've made her a few 'proper meal' type things, such as carrot, lentil and apple, and cheesy courgette pasta, but I'm out of ideas.

We tend to eat mostly quorn dishes, and I'm not sure if they are suitable for babies or not.

I tend to cook a few things all at once and freeze portions in little tubs for her.

Any ideas for meals that don't involve hundreds of ingredients, and that can be frozen? I'm not very confident at cooking fish or meat because we don't cook them for ourselves very often, but we give her the odd jar of babyfood here and there to make sure she is getting used to the taste of meat too.

Ideas for desserts would be good too, as I think she is sick to death of apple and pear mush!

Nitha

I'm desperately looking for new baby food recipes. I've read Annabel Karmel and tried her stuff, but I was wondering if anyone had their own recipes (thinking a la Heinz Mum's Own, but actually home made!)

Any age bracket is welcome!

sarah1

i've got a 6 month old little girl :j
she has weetabix for breakfast every morning , but i'm stuck on savoury lunch and dinner. I dont want to gave her jarred food. has anyone got any suggestions please. :beer:

Auzelia

this is a fab website for recipes

http://www.annabelkarmel.com/recipes/babies-6-9-months/weaning_baby_trio_root_vegetables

Would also deffo recommend her books

seabright

I'm using the Annabel Karmel book, which is really good, lots of reciepes - got it out of the library, so it's free!

beccam

another annabel karmel fan here! I did buy her 'new complete baby and toddler meal planner' when DD was a baby an 3yrs on I still use it as it has 'toddler' meals which can really be family meals too.