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Baby Led Weaning

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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Homemade gluten-free banana teething biscuits

July 31, 2010

I suspect my boy has been teething for a couple of weeks now, so to give him something to really chew on I’ve been offering him teething rusks. I was a bit surprised that store bought teething rusks had so many ingredients in them (like added salt) so I decided to have a go at [...]

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What is Baby Led Weaning?

July 28, 2010

photo credit: Kate Ferrara When people find out that I have adopted a baby led approach to introducing solids to my boy, the first thing I am often asked is, “what is baby led weaning?” I have met only a handful of mothers who know what Baby-Led Weaning is and an even smaller few who are [...]

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Watermelon, mangoes, pears and toast? It’s been a busy week.

July 16, 2010

We are now in our fourth week of Baby Led Weaning and what a busy week it has been! We recently moved into a new apartment and now that we have re-established our daily routine, I’ve been able to find a bit of extra time to dedicate to my son and his eating efforts. The [...]

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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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