Childhood Obesity: prevention starts in infancy

September 14, 2010

Childhood Obesity Awareness Month Blog Carnival This article was written for inclusion in the blog carnival hosted by Littlestomaks to promote awareness of childhood obesity as part of the National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. Please read to the end of this article to find a list of links to the other carnival participants. *** Childhood [...]

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Baby Oatmeal (and success with a preloaded spoon)

September 10, 2010

If only all foods were able to be cut into a ‘chip’ shape then Baby Led Weaning would be a relatively simple and straightforward process. As food doesn’t work like this unfortunately, the question about how to offer your baby ‘sloppy’ foods like yogurt or porridge, is often asked. About a month ago, I tried [...]

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Baby Led Weaning: When, How and Which Foods

September 7, 2010

In the spirit of keeping things simple, I’ve put together a few new pages on Baby Led Weaning. Whilst this is by no means an exhaustative coverage of all things baby-led weaning, it serves as a simple guide to getting you and your little one started with real food. When taking a baby led approach [...]

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Eggy Bread

September 3, 2010

Eggs are one of nature’s superfoods. They are an excellent source of protein and the egg yolks in particular are a rich source of Vitamins A, D, E, B5, B12, folate, riboflavin, choline, selenium and phosphorus, as well as being a useful source of zinc and iron. The great thing about eggs is they are [...]

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Beef Ragu Pasta Sauce for Baby

August 30, 2010

Teddy loves to eat fusilli pasta. Fusilli is the perfect shape for him to pick up and munch on and he finds it much easier to hold than thin pieces of spaghetti. Pasta is also the perfect vehicle for meat based pasta sauces, is popular with young children and makes for a perfect family meal. [...]

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Mini Spinach Beef Burgers

August 22, 2010

For those following Baby Led Weaning, deciding how to offer meat to our babies can be a difficult one. I’ve been playing with the idea of ground meat (savoury mince on a preloaded spoon perhaps?), a tender beef stew or a slow cooked leg of lamb. I ended up deciding to use ground beef to [...]

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Baby Baked Apples

August 14, 2010

I’m becoming a bit more adventurous in the kitchen now that Teddy is getting a bit older and is becoming even more efficient at finger feeding. He’s been happy to munch on lightly steamed slices of apple for a while now so I thought it might be time to try something different and bake the [...]

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Mediterranean Roast Vegetable Pasta (for babies and for grown ups)

August 9, 2010

Teddy eating his fusili pasta Eating this meal has to be, hands down, one of our best moments with Baby Led Weaning thus far. I feel like this meal has been the real ‘click’ moment so many other parents doing baby-led weaning often talk about. The moment when it all comes together and your baby [...]

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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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