Recipes for baby food.

[peanut1967]

Hi

We are foster parents and last night we got a 10 month old little baby boy, such a blessing for all the family.

Now we also have a 9 yr old boy in care with us, plus my two own children who are 19 and 16...............so its been a long time since I have had a baby in the house.

I have had to go out and buy jars of baby food I never did that with my own, but because it was an emergancy placemnet I have had to bite the bullet and buy these jars.

As anybody got some good baby food recipes.
Angie

 

[Poohs#1fan]

I made all of my DDs baby food, too. I got a lot of help from wholesomebabyfood.com

HTH

 

[Tasmen]

I made all of my DDs baby food, too. I got a lot of help from wholesomebabyfood.com

HTH

That's the site I would highly recommend as well. It's a very informative and helpful site.

 

[la79al]

A third vote for wholesomebabyfood.com. They have some really easy recipes on there. Good luck!

 

[tanyaandallie]

It's really so easy. Just cook the food and throw it in the blender! At 10 mos he is probably eating some finger foods also. Just cook them really soft and let him eat them!

 

[Mom2m&k]

It's really so easy. Just cook the food and throw it in the blender! At 10 mos he is probably eating some finger foods also. Just cook them really soft and let him eat them!

That is what I did! Most markets now have organic frozen veggies and you can just heat them and then blend them, and freeze anything you don't use!

 

[Mrs D]

I used the book Super Baby Food by Ruth Yaron. I have heard wholsomebabyfood is a good site. At 10 minths he is likely able to start on finger foods. You can cut up banana, avacado, small pieces of plain whole-grain pasta, very very sift carrot bites, natural cheese, ripes mango/papaya/pear, melons.

HTH!

 

[scape1224]

I followed Super Baby Food by Ruth Yaron and used the wholesomebabyfoods site as well.

I will have to start making all that stuff again soon for the little guy.

 

[miprender]

I loved the Super Food baby book. I used it with all my three kids. The recipes are real easy to use.

 

[luvsmickeymouse]

I made all of my baby food as well. My kids liked oatmeal with brown sugar and applesauce in it.

I put whatever we were having into the blender or a baby food grinder.

The ideas are endless.

 

[CrAzY4DL]

With DD5, I usually just put whatever we were eating into the food processor. I just made everyones food, all seasoned the same, threw it in, WHIRRRRR, and get your grub on. She always seemed to love it and still eats anything and everything.
With DD9, I just bought baby food. In fact, whatever she ate had to have green veggies in it, especially the green beans and peas. Applesauce? Add the peas. Fruit dessert stuff? Add green beans. I don't know what it was all about but that kid was (and still is) bonkers for veggies. Actually, both are. Hmm. What a thing to complain about!!! LOL @ me!

 

[mandynee22]

DS never ate any bought baby food. I did make it make it a couple times (no great recipe- I would boil apples or something and put it in the grinder) and I would try to feed him but if he could't hold the spoon or fork and feed himself he wasn't interested :-(
If you don't want to buy or make it and he has any teeth (or can chew) it might be easier to just cut everything small and feed him that.

 

[jensen]

Bless you for being a foster parent!!!! I've always had great admiration for people who can do that job - I've considered it, but haven't talked DH into it, yet.

I made all the baby food for both of my children using recipes from Martha Stewart... but, honestly there wasn't really any need for "recipes". Basically, I would steam fresh veggies and then blend them with water to the desired consistency. Then I'd poor that mixture into ice cube trays and freeze it. When it was frozen, I transferred the cubes to freezer bags. Before every meal, I'd grab a few cubes - potatoes, peas, carrots, for example - and thaw them in the microwave. I'd also do a serving of fruit - apples & plums, for example - sometimes I'd add oatmeal. I always kept bananas and avacados on hand because they are great to throw in a diaper bag and mash up for snacks on the run.

I never did meat... I'm not the biggest meat eater myself, so the thought of pureed meat makes me ill.

 

[peanut1967]

thanks you guys. I have spent the day steaming and chopping, so I have about 2 weeks of food for him. It was mainly the sauces I needed help on, but looking at the recommended sites I have found some great ideas, I made a lovely cheese sauce for him using his formula.
Also found some scottish smoked salmon at half price so hes having that as well, better fed than us. lol

thankyou for you input
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