Whats the best homemade baby puree to start my baby on savoury foods?

Question

I wanting to start feeding my 6month old savoury foods now and not sure what homemade puree recipes I should start with. Any ideas?

Answer 1

My daughter loved avacodos. I made all of her food. Sweet Potatos, carrots, etc all good foods. 6 months is still young for a lot of foods, so be careful what you feed them.

There is a great book (I met the author) that will help you, it tells how to make the foods, how to pick the veggies and fruits (who really knows how to chose the best cumquat?) and it tells how to freeze the food (ice cube trays) and what age its appropriate to give each food. I used mine so much the cover fell of. Its called the Super baby food book. Its by Ruth Yaron. She has a website I have enclosed it.

Brocolli and calliflower should be a no no at this age, its a huge gas producer!

Answer 2

Check out this website, they have some great ideas:

http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com

Also some other things to bear in mind when making homemade baby food:

• Do use ice cube trays to freeze puréed foods. Each cube should be about one ounce. Once frozen, pop out the cubes, store in a sealed plastic bag, and use within two months.
• Do discard unfinished meals. Bacteria forms quickly.
• Do introduce new foods at the rate of one per week, so you can pinpoint any allergies.
• Do make sure your child has accepted most vegetables and fruits before trying any meats.
• Do steam or microwave vegetables and fruits to retain as much vitamins and minerals as possible, as opposed to boiling.
• Do use as thinners: water left from steaming, breast milk, formula, cow's milk, yogurt, broth, or apple juice.
• Do use as thickeners: wheat germ, whole-grain cereal, cottage cheese, farmer cheese, cooked egg yolks, yogurt, mashed white or sweet potato.

Good luck, and hope baby enjoys all the yummy food you're making!

Answer 3

Start off with one taste at a time. A good one is carrots, the next day add potato, then turnip or corgettes etc. You can also begin to give him/her a "taste" of what you are eating on the tip of the spoon. This way baby will get used to lots of differnt flavours, especially your own home made cooking. Good luck

Answer 4

i used a lot of pureed carrots, peas, potatoes, sweet potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower and a tiny bit of tomato puree. Some of these were on their own, or mixed with each other or baby rice. You can get baby gravy too which gives more flavour but without the salt.

Answer 5

Some Awsome Purees Are:
Banana,Apple,Pear is awsome
Carrot and Potato is really good
Sweet Potato (I loved it)
Chicken
Broccoli and Cheese

Really Good Websites for puree recipes
http://baby-food.romanvirdi.com/chicken-puree.htm

Answer 6

The best first foods are -

mashed bananas
avocados
cooked and pureed sweet potatoes

- all easy and a lot of nutritional "bang for the buck" with these foods.

Answer 7

You might be interested it this:
http://www.borstvoeding.com/voedselintroductie/vast_voedsel/rapley_guidelines.html

But really you can just puree anything you are eating so long as it doesn't contain wheat, dairy, honey, corn syrup, peanuts, etc.

Meat and veggies are best, grains are actually a lot harder to digest and some studies have suggested that babies can not digest grains before 9 months of age.

I don't make babyfood, just give my baby what I am eating but I cook with lots of garlic and spices and he doesn't mind. (Oh but try to limit the salt ;-) )

Answer 8

My baby adored pureed sweet potatoes. I first started her on the baby rice though, to get her used to solids, but she soon moved on to pureed veg. She wasn't too fond of fruit at first but can now not get enough of it!

Answer 9

I just love butternut squash. Just boil them and mash. I don't like the bottled ones, though. They really taste awful. Some fruits like bananas are good, too. You can get ideas by just looking at the stuff being sold. It is better if you make them yourself. It's not that difficult.

Answer 10

Start with simple flavours: mashed potatoes are a good initial base, and then add other flavours in: mashed carrot / turnip etc). You might also mix in fruit etc. Good frozen in ice cube trays, and you can mix and match them.

The short answer, though, is give her/him whatever vegetables you are having.