Baby food recipes.

i've recently been trying to make heaps of baby to freeze so i'm not always having to make little bits but i've run out of ideas.
does anyone have any good baby food recipes that went down well with your babies?

yea i've been doing that too, i sometimes fry a bit of onion with curry powder and add that too for some flavour, mikey loves that but i don't want him to get sick of it.

yea i've tried giving mikey what we eat but he still chokes and throws up if there's any lumps, it's so annoying. i need to buy one of those mini-blender things, what are they called? that way i could just blend up what we're having for him. at the moment i have to make him things that are easy to mash.

I used to make spinach and feta omlettes for Ella.. those were a favourite and she had one at least once a week. Can't remember much else of what she ate then!

I used to give Maya rice boiled with silverbeet. I would chop the silverbeet up really fine and then boil them together so the iron etc. from the silverbeet was absorbed into the rice. She loved it, and when she was a bit older I'd add a bit of chopped chicken or something as well.

She won't touch silverbeet now tho - her Daddy told her it's yucky...

They pretty much just have boiled mashed/pureed stuff for the first couple of months (4-6 or 7 mths) but after that they can start having more interesting stuff. PLunket and Watties put out a handy fridge guide to what foods you can introduce when.

Here's one that Zac loves:

Braised Beef with Carrot and Potato

1 tbsp olive oil
1 75g small red onion chopped
1 clove garlic crushed
150g lean braising steak cut into pieces
2 tbsp flour
150g carrots peeled and slived
1 medium potato peeled and sliced
250g kumara peeled and chopped
1 bay leaf
1 tbsp chopped parsley
350ml unsalted chicken stock

Heat the oil in a heavy based pan or casserole dish and saute the onion for 4 minues until softened.
Add the garlic and cook for 1 more minute.
Toss the steak in the flour and add to the pan and saute until sealed. Add the carrots, potato, sweet potato, bay leaf and parsley and pour over the stock.
Bring to the boil, cover with a lid and simmer for 1 hour 45 minutes or until the meat is very tender.
Blend in a food processor with as much cooking liquid as necessary to make the right consistency for your child.

oh that sounds great, i've been trying to get meat into mikey but don't really have any recipes. thanks for that kim

For lunch or as a snack I make baby french toast.
30mls of breast milk or formula milk, one egg, mix it really well with a fork. Get two slices of white bread, cut the crusts off and soak in the mixture. Heat a little oil in frypan and fry the bread until golden on bothe sides (about 1-2 minutes each side?) Flynn loves it! I found he either likes really smooth foods or the complete opposite!! He loves finger food (won't eat any lumpy food unless mixed with a lot of custard!) so I cut a few veges into cubes like pumpkin, potato & kumera and boil. I also through in a stalk of brocoli and some cheerios. Then he just picks through what he wants while I eat my dinner in peace!!! He totally prefers to feed himself!

I add chicken to this one as well:

Macaroni and Cauliflower Cheese

100g macaroni
400g cauliflower florets
200ml formula milk
20g plain flour
20g unsalted butter
freshly ground black pepper
2tbsp finely chopped parsley
100g cheddar cheese, grated

Bring a pan of water to the boil and cook the macaroni following the packet's instructions. Cook the cauliflower over the boiling water in a steamer until just tender. Drain and reserve.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
Mix together the milk, flour and butter in a pan. Heat gently, stirring with a whisk until you have a smooth sauce. Season with pepper then add the herbs and half the cheese. Stir until the cheese has melted, then stir in the macaroni.
Arrange the cauliflower in an ovenproof dish. Pour over the macaroni cheese and sprinkle over the remaining cheese. Bake for 15 minutes until golden brown.