Can anyone help with home-made baby food?

Question

My 6 month old has been weaning for a couple of months. I've made my own fruit and veg purees for him, but am now after things like baby porridge and little meals for him. Does anyone have any recipes? Especially for the breakfasts, those little pots are very expensive!!

Answer 1

anything you make for yourself/your family, blend for your baby, you don't want to start the making 4 meals a day thing!
i would buy a carrot, broccoli, swede, potato, mash together and freeze in those expensive jars that you have cleaned out, thaw out in the morning and warm using gravy (baby gravy is good)
also if i cooked pasta, chop up as it is soft baby can swallow but also enjoys the texture.
when you have a Sunday roast, you only need a small amount take a piece of chicken (off the bone!!) along with veges blend together, my daughter loved it.
my first daughter was brought up with alot of convenience food, my second daughter was brought up on home-made food and my eldest daughter is so dam fussy now, pays to give them what you want them to eat not what they want to eat.

Answer 2

Hi,

I always made wot i was having but blitzed it down to a puree using a littlewhole milk or u can use formula or breast too.

For luchtimes i would steam a chicken breast to keep it soft with a selection of veggies and potatoes and do the same thing, except i just put it into baby portions and freezed it. Its so easy and all u doo is take i out and blast it in the microwave untill piping hot all the way through and cool.

Always add milk to thin the consistencey.

Avoid sausages and rice as if not heat properly can make bubba ill!

Then thing is baby will eat whatever u eat as long as its a good consistency, and you can just blitz less and less as weaning progresses.

My daughter loves my food and hates processed foods she is the onlu child i know that loves all veggies!!


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Answer 3

I fed my two purely on home made foods except breakfasts. I bought the shops own make of weetabix and gave them a quarter of that with warm milk. Lunch, dinner and supper was pureed veg with a tiny bit of cheese in it and pureed fruit for puddings. It's cheap enough to buy things for breakfasts.

Answer 4

Like others said just puree your own food, but if you are cooking from fresh food that can be frozen then when you have puree'd it, I was told by health visitor to sterilise an ice cube tray and then put the food in each little cube, pop it in a freezer bag and then you can just pop one out to defrost each meal time (it doesn't take long) and there's minimum waste and no need to buy those over priced mini tubs!
Plus my son still loves the mini pots of fromage frais (I have to hide them the best I can in the fridge) and supermarket own brands are 40p compared to £1.20 for branded!

Answer 5

I'm going through the same thing. you can get a baby food hand puree thing for $6 at k mart. I know using frozen veggies is healthier then canned but you need to boil the tar out of it until it's soft enough to puree. As far as breakfast try cream of wheat, it even tells you how to make it for baby food right on the box, plus its a neat texture....Also try runny regular instand oatmeal and mix some fruit puree in it, as far are regular food, add some water to what you're eating and puree it. good luck.

Answer 6

Hi there here are a few things my 8 month old likes.
Oatmeal with dried apricots(make sure they do not contain sulthates)
Oatmeal with apple and cinnamon
Ready Brek with Banana
Toast Fingers and yogurt
cottage cheese and fruit puree

Also as far as meals go i would reccommend getting hold of a annabel karmel cookbook they are wonderful
You can basiccaly gove your baby anything you are eating as long as it doesnt cantain salt additives or preservatives. The books are defineataly worth it!

Answer 7

All you need to do isd puree whatever you are having for the meals.
For the porrige breakfast thing, if you buy a box of baby cereal (I used to buy the Heinz(?) Apple Orange and Banana porridge flakes...all you do is add baby's normal milk, and a box isn't really that expenesive.

Answer 8

Very glad to hear that you're not falling into the trap of thinking that babies have to live off tins and jars (like pets!). Any cereal is fine which is low sugar and salt. When introducing a new cereal, try just a little at first - I still remember those explosive Weetabix nappies!

Answer 9

I think that the best baby food is your own home cooked food prepared in a sensible way, no salt and low fat of course. Cook, blend and when it is cold put it into ice cube trays and freeze it. My granddaughters were fed on this type of food and have turned out to be beautiful specimens and enjoy most foods because they became accustomed to their mum's cooking at an early age....she is a good cook by the way! Good luck with this..

Answer 10

You could give your baby whatever your making for yourself, just leave out things like salt and other bad things and turn it into a mush suitable for your baby to eat by using a hand blender. Hand blenders can be bought for less than £5 and will pay for it's self in no time. Good luck.