Is there any websites where I can get recipes for food for my baby?

Question

My six month old son is happily eating jar foods and powder foods, but it is starting to get expensive. Does anybody know of any websites that give good and easy recipes for purrees etc?
I have purreed fruit for him, but he is starting to get bored of banana!

Answer 1

Allrecipes...just go there and search for 'baby food'.

Answer 2

I used to puree whatever my husband and I were eating (okay, so not curries and spicy foods!). If you can, try to serve things separately (eg, beef, carrots in separate bits - that way, you can find out what he does and does not like.). You can buy baby chopping machines that can puree very small quantities.

Using what you eat also cuts down on wastage - at his age, all he needs is a teaspoon of each foodstuff (totalling a couple of tablespoons probably - but you will know how much your son eats). So if he does not like it, you have not wasted much food - nor wasted the time preparing it! You will also find out how much food you need to prepare when you do larger quantities to freeze for when you have stuff he cannot eat! It also means that when you make food specially for him, you will not make stuff he does not like!

Potatoes do not puree - just mash those!

Please realise that real food tastes totally different to jar foods - have you actually tried the jar foods! - so having real food may be a shock to your son's system! Just remember do not give them peanuts or peanut butter - it is believed that if you give a baby nuts at a very young age, they are more likely to develop an allergy to them.

When you are giving your son real food, make sure you have a quick and easy standby in case he does not like it. My son used to love weetabix in warm milk!

Answer 3

Really baby can eat anything you can, as long as you make it yourself and think about salt and sugar content. Obviously you need to puree it to suit him.

Most vegetables (wait a bit with sweetcorn, it doesn't always puree well,) fruit, even well cooked and soft meat. Minced turkey or chicken breast. I sometimes make burgers for my daughter and baby will have a go at feeding himself some, while I spoon in vegetables.

I don't know wether you have time to cook much, but I usually do a batch and freeze part of it in ice cube trays as a couple of cubes is a meal for him, and I can just pop a couple of cubes out of whichever meal he's having.

Don't forget the importance of finger food. It's messy and he probably wont be very succesful, but a handful of partially cooked carrot sticks etc, will help his co-ordination and teething.

Good luck, it's only hard until you get into the swing of it.

Answer 4

At six months old, your baby can have a variety of foods and they don't all need to be pureed. Check with your doctor, however. One food at a time is recommended so you can rule out foods the baby is allergic to. See the following website for feeding 6 month old babies:
U of MN Extension - INFO-U: Feeding the 6 Month-Old

Answer 5

i have not tried jarred toddler meals yet, I make each thing sparkling- yet i'm guessing selfmade sparkling toddler nutrients is more desirable wholesome then jarred meals. before each thing, the nutrients is sparkling and in case you get the vegetables and end result out of your backyard (or someone's' backyard) or purchase it organic and organic you know that it truly is great wholesome. They placed preservatives and chemical substances in toddler nutrients, it truly is why it continuously tastes sweeter and more desirable proper (to adults) then selfmade meals. i began her on cereal at 4 months (cereal and oats) so I for sure offered the cereal, yet I make her vegetables selfmade. so some distance I have made carrots, squash and sweet potato. They eat so little (surely a pair tablespoons a meal), and in case you freeze precise it may very last as lengthy as 3 months with out going undesirable, for this reason that's a money saver too. that's straightforward to make too- peal, wash, steam, decrease, puree with some water.

Answer 6

Try just giving the baby what you are having but put it in a food processor make sure that there is not a lot of salt and sugars. I have always given my baby's what we ate and they enjoy their food. you could try woman's weekly web site it is an Aussie company but they have recipes for children.

Answer 7

go on to ivillage.com it has all sorts on there also most cooking and be adapted for chilren just dont add extra salt or sugars.
e.g. potatoes mashed with his milk dont add salt to the water.
also you local collage or learning centre may do courses on this.
i know in kidderminster a training group called the Oldington and Foley Park Community centre do baby weaning courses.
also Surestart centres and children centres should also beable to help and your local doctor to.
good luck with you son and he can also have finger foods like carrot, cucumber and other thing like this.

Answer 8

http://homecooking.about.com/library/weekly/bl091997a.htm

this site has some recipies on it and the one below has some do's and don't tips on it

http://homecooking.about.com/od/specificfood/a/babyfooddos.htm

you really can feed pretty much anything as long as you puree it so baby can eat it but you will want to start with basic things at first and only introduce 1 thing at a time until you make sure there are no allergies. anyway i hope this helps

Answer 9

I've put a link below to a "receipe swap thread" on a pregnacy and parenting forum. It has some really good ideas for weaning foods.

Hope this helps!

Answer 10

Try http://www.homemade-baby-food-recipes.com - there are lots of recipes and also advice about which foods are safe to give at each stage.