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First Foods

Baby finger foods? Here’s some ideas.

August 5, 2010

Letting your baby feed himself is a great way for your little one to have control over his eating, to work on his hand eye coordination, develop his chewing skills and develop independence, confidence and mastery over self-feeding. Letting your baby feed himself provides your little one with endless learning opportunities – he can learn [...]

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Baked Sweet Potato Fries

August 4, 2010

I’ve been offering my boy batons of steamed sweet potato for a few weeks now and given that he is chowing down on most things I give him these days, I thought it was time to become a bit more adventurous with food preparation and try something other than steamed vegetables. Given that sweet potato [...]

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Peaches baby!

July 20, 2010

photo credit: yummyporky We are in the middle of a really hot summer here in Hong Kong so I was very excited when I found peaches in our local supermarket recently. Growing up in Australia, peaches were a summer staple for my family. I always loved summer for the incredible range of seasonally available fruit (think [...]

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Baby loves Apples

July 7, 2010

photo credit: Abhijit Tembhekar Apples are another of those foods that is commonly cited as being perfect for babies starting on solids as they are easy to prepare and easy for little tummies to digest. Why do some babies love apples so much? It is most likely because apples are high in natural sugars and [...]

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Avocado for baby? Yes please.

June 28, 2010

photo credit: Simon Goldenberg Avocado was a huge hit in our house yesterday. Both my husband and I love avocados and so I decided to offer some, sliced up, to our boy as a finger food. Given the avocado was lovely and ripe, it was easy for my boy to pick up and mash between [...]

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What’s on the menu? Butternut squash!

June 27, 2010

photo credit: VancityAllie I persisted with rice cereal for 5 days and with minimal interest from my boy, I decided to give Baby Led Weaning a go and offer the boy some butternut squash instead. What a difference that made! He had complete control. He could pick up, play with, squash, taste and munch on [...]

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