Making baby food

I didn't make any baby food for Sienna but Noah & Lola have been eating me out of house and home so I thought it was about time to stop being lazy and make some of my own.

Can anyone suggest any flavour combos and basically how to make it !

As they are still quite young there are only a few foods that you will need to intoduce them to. So pumpkin, courgette, potato, carrot, kumara, apple and pear. I think that is it for now. Pumpkin and pear was one of Spencers favourites. I find steaming them the easiest way to cook but for apples and pears you can also roast and the veges you can just boil if need be. Try to avoid the microwave for actual cooking as it destroys some of the nutrients. I cook in batches and then freeze in ice cube trays and then can mix and match at each meal time. For combos you can steal ideas of watties etc as well, just look and see what combos they do and do the same.

Hope that helps.

LOL, mine eat me out of house and home too!

Basically you just boil up the veges/fruit with no skin, pips etc. in a little bit of water then chuck it in the food processor with the water from the pan and puree it. I used to do all the veges separately then freeze them in icecube trays and then when I defrosted them I would mix say potato, kumara and pumpkin together, that way I could alter the variety.

I also used to puree up the frozen broccoli you can buy from the supermarket, and frozen peas for them when they were a bit older.

Thanks guys

I really should know all this stuff after already having a kiddy but it was so much eaiser to just buy ready made for one lol and we were a bit better off $$ wise then

avocado and banana is meant to be yummy for babies, havent been brave enough to try it yet though!

Plunket said not to mix foods until they have been on solids for 6 - 8 weeks. So introduce a single food and give them that food everyday for 3 days and then change.

Once they have had a food for 3-4 days you can mix it with a new food and still be aware of any allergic responses.

E.g. Start bubbas on avocado - 1 meal a day, 4 days. No reaction. Introduce pumpkin - can be mixed straight away with avocado or given seperately.

Persoanlly, until all flavours have been tried I wuold keep them seperate as it helps you see what they do/don't like.

if they don't like something it can take up to 10 goes before they will like it, or stop then reintro a few days later.

As for combos, pretty much anythign y9ou mix together that they like, once you are happy that they arent going to react to it is fine, some people have given their kids cray combos (to us) and they have loved it. Especially useful if, say bubba will only eat things mixed with apple (like chicken, corn, pasta and apple - eww, but bubba loved it!)

Forgot to say...Do give jar food on occasions though as my DD refused to eat any jar food and I think it might of been because all I fed her was home cooked?? Might have been wrong. My DD eats anything and everything now!