Home Made Baby Food

Hi, my baby is also 5 months old. I started weaning him at about 19 weeks. His favourite vegetable is sweet potato but I introduce a new vegetable every three days at lunchtime and have now started mixing two vegetables. I use the ice cube method. To my surprise he loves pureed green beans. Tomorrow he'll get broccoli! For supper he gets two cubes of fruit with baby rice. I look forward to more interesting combinations when he's 6 months. I use the Gina Ford weaning book which worked well for my other son.

I went onto my msn homepage and just typed in baby food recipes and tons of sites came up. I suggest you go on there if you want specific information. What I did when my boys were young (they are now 17 and 20) was to make their food same as mine, minus the spices. Their favorite was vegetable soup. I made it real bland, put in my baby food grinder and packaged in the small tupperware cups with lids and sent to the day care every day and fed them at home. We could always add our own spices and/or seasonings later. I was really happy and satisfied to make food for my babies and I think you will be too. Enjoy!

Welcome to Mylot. Hi Angel I feel you started very early to feed the baby because solids should be introduced at the beginning of 6 months, If you are baby is ready to eat not a problem, but please check with your Pediatrician once.. I think you can give bananas , smashed potatoes, soft rice with milk apart from that you can also give cerelac which comes in different flavors..

Hi there Angel! I found lots of recipes here: http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/ I hope you'll find what you're looking for.

I don't really know of websites but there are a lot of traditionally made recipes our moms and grandmoms would feed us when we were younger. There's always mashed carrots, mashed potatoes, mashed bananas, rice liquid (I don't know what that is in english) I don't think you need recipes, you just need to be creative and not put anything in them since baby's taste buds are so sensitive, they mustn't get salt or sugar. I've always noticed that food for babies taste dull, I think that's specially designed for those little taste buds. Good luck!

I dont have the need to look at those sites now as my kids have all grown up.But my daughter has a little one and regularly makes his food..she does it because she feels that the food that she prepares is more nutricious than the food in jars or cans...she usaully sets aside a morning a week and gets to work ..I know that she combines all of the veggies ..including sweet potato ..as her son likes the taste of it...then she makes some good gravy and purees the veggies with the gravy and freezes them into ice cube trays..she uses ice cube trays because she then says there is no waste...and she just pops out a cube when she wants to use it...so Good luck on the baby food ..

Mashed potatoes and pumpkin will do good for your baby. Don't over feed she's only 5months.later you can add carrots just don't forget to blend it soft enough.