Baby food recipes and snacks

JoJoB

I would be careful about weetabix every morning, aren't you supposed to be careful about not giving them too much fibre initially? Weetabix is very high fibre, might not be good fo LO's tum! Perhaps substitute for porridge some days, toast and fruit on others?

For lunches and dinners I used to have a few basics pureed in the freezer in incecube trays. A selection of protein "bases" to which I would add a vegetable accompaniment.

I would cook up in a big pan a load of green lentils, red lentils and quinoa then puree and pour into icecube trays, freeze, then decant into sandwich bags when solid so I could use the tray again. For lunch I would defrost one of these icecubes and an an icecube of vegetables, heat up and stir in a little grated cheese (for extra protein and calcium).

For vegetable "icecubes" I did various combos - generally cooking a sweet vegetable like butternut squash with a more bitter one like broccoli and green beans to make it palatable for LO. The following are combos that were very successful:

carrots, sweetcorn and peas
butternut squash, sweet potato and broccoli
swede, parsnip, potato, sweet potato

It might sound a bit of hassle at first but it only takes about an hour to cook and puree all the stuff then you have a mix n match selection in your freezer that will last you ages. We don't eat meat apart from fish but you can make protein bases by cooking meat and "mincing" in food processor then freezing in the same way.

I also stewed fruit and pureed and made cubes - these I would add to porridge in the morning so DD was getting one of her 5 a day straight away. Pureed apple and pear is a very nice mixture.

And at 6 months finger food is able to be introduced. I was amazed how quickly DD took to toast! Cut up into fingers and spread with hummus or butter and marmite etc can make a nice tea.

And eggs are always in the fridge so when I was stuck I would make scrambled eggs with a little grated cheese, or an omelette which I would cut into squares for her.

hth

Bitsy_Beans

JoJoB wrote: »

I would be careful about weetabix every morning, aren't you supposed to be careful about not giving them too much fibre initially? Weetabix is very high fibre, might not be good fo LO's tum! Perhaps substitute for porridge some days, toast and fruit on others?

For lunches and dinners I used to have a few basics pureed in the freezer in incecube trays. A selection of protein "bases" to which I would add a vegetable accompaniment.

I would cook up in a big pan a load of green lentils, red lentils and quinoa then puree and pour into icecube trays, freeze, then decant into sandwich bags when solid so I could use the tray again. For lunch I would defrost one of these icecubes and an an icecube of vegetables, heat up and stir in a little grated cheese (for extra protein and calcium).

For vegetable "icecubes" I did various combos - generally cooking a sweet vegetable like butternut squash with a more bitter one like broccoli and green beans to make it palatable for LO. The following are combos that were very successful:

carrots, sweetcorn and peas
butternut squash, sweet potato and broccoli
swede, parsnip, potato, sweet potato

It might sound a bit of hassle at first but it only takes about an hour to cook and puree all the stuff then you have a mix n match selection in your freezer that will last you ages. We don't eat meat apart from fish but you can make protein bases by cooking meat and "mincing" in food processor then freezing in the same way.

I also stewed fruit and pureed and made cubes - these I would add to porridge in the morning so DD was getting one of her 5 a day straight away. Pureed apple and pear is a very nice mixture.

And at 6 months finger food is able to be introduced. I was amazed how quickly DD took to toast! Cut up into fingers and spread with hummus or butter and marmite etc can make a nice tea.

And eggs are always in the fridge so when I was stuck I would make scrambled eggs with a little grated cheese, or an omelette which I would cut into squares for her.

hth

It's to do with coeliacs disease. I tried my daughter with baby porridge and she wouldn't eat it so had to revert back to weetabix anyway. At 6 months old she couldn't cope with eating toast.
You could try perhaps puree fruit (which has been stewed) with some baby rice if you wanted to give weetabix a miss for a while.
Sweet potatoes are really tasty to babies (personally I can't stand them LOL!) and puree quite nicely and freeze.
I basically cooked a whole load of veggies (broccoli, cauliflower, courgette, carrot, peas, swede etc) blitzed them with my hand blender and froze them in icecube trays. Once frozen put into bags which each day I took out the cubes that I needed.
I also made tomato pasta which pureed surprisingly well.
I rarely use salt in our ususal cooking so any leftovers from our main meals would also be saved and pureed etc.
I've got the Annabel Karmel book (her cheesecake receipe was lovely!) which I refer to if I need inspiration.

Penelope_Penguin

sarah1 wrote: »

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:

I gave mine pureed fruit and vegetables, and they liked sticks of things that they could gnaw on (carrot, cucumber, apple, pear, banana, etc). I also pureed what we were eating, taking care to keep down the seasoning.

I've found an exisitng thread on just this subject, so I'll merge this one so that you can browse other ideas.

Penny. x

hayley_jayne

Hi, I have a 7 month old little girl and as we are now both back at work full time would like to cook more in batches to make her home made meals to freeze. I have to admit I have relied on jars to a large extent and then giving her the same food we have blitzed.

Being back at work she eats earlier than us not to mention the jars are expensive. I have made a puree of sweet potato (200g), carrots (200g) and parsnips (100g) today and I could have just sat and ate it; it was lovely!

I was wondering if any of you can advise on food ideas???

xx

Penelope_Penguin

Fruit and vegetable purees will go down well. Have you tried finger foods - carrot sticks, cubes of cheese and bread Eating the same as you will give her the opportunity to try lots of things, and be a good start to her joining your meals when she can feed herself

Try this - Baby Food Recipes. I'll merge this thread later, to keep ideas together.

Penny. x

madnessandmayhem

my eldest son really liked a pork dish i used to make him-pork, carrot, sweet potato and apple (yes really!!) i also used to cook a arge dish of chicken or pork caserole and puree up a few sevings fo him and freeze them-just make sure you use a low salt stock and don't add any extra salt until after you have taken out babys portions!!

madnessandmayhem

also cauliflower cheese used to go down quite well!!!

Penny-Pincher!!

Just remember NOT to add any salt to her food.

Also check any processed food you give her for salt intake. They can be very high.

I used to give DD everything we had and she was on solids at a few weeks old as she was so hungry. I used to make up when she was tiny in ice cube trays and just push out 3-4 in the morning for lunch. I remember she liked things like fish pie, spagbol, shepherds pie, roasts, cauli cheese, fruit purees, veggies & meat...but all mashed up.

HTH

PP
xx

hayley_jayne

Thanks so much

She has had the Ella's Kitchen range before and they mix apple with veg too and she loved them so I will try your suggestion. Out of interest did you use pork mince? xx

jinky67

Essentially she should be able to eat what you do, with some modification.
without salt and gravy etc

Shouldnt need to be too pureed either