First baby food recipes?

hiya can you help me with recipes for my 5 month old i want to make some home made meals. and not sure what to make thanks xxFirst baby food recipes?
At that age, you still want to do mostly just singe fruits and veggies. So for any of the following, steam them until soft, then mash well or puree with a little bit of water to thin:


apples, pears, winter squash, sweet potato, green peas, green beans (peas and beans you might need to put through a strainer to get rid of the chunks), carrots (better after 6 months because of nitrate)





Bananas and avocado don't need to be cooked and can just be mashed with a fork when ripe





Canned pumpkin and unsweetened applesauce from the store can be fed to your baby - just read the ingredients.





All of the above can be frozen in ice cube trays and stored in freezer bags for up to 3 months. Otherwise you should use it in 2-3 days if you are just refrigerating.





Once your baby has had the single flavors, the best meals are just to mix the fruits and veggies - so like a cube of apple and a cube of pear, or pear-avocado, or apple-sweet potato. You can also add basic spices like cinnamon (introduce it just like any new food), and you can also mix baby cereal into the fruits - so apple-cinnamon oatmeal, for example. The main thing to remember is no extra salt or sugar!





You can find some basic ideas here:


http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/solidfo鈥?/a>


and more under ';recipes'; on the same site.First baby food recipes?
The goal is to get your baby to eat whatever your family normally eats. Why would you start a baby on foods that you never eat then expect them to switch to whatever is normal for your family at some arbitrary point.





So start with the fruit and vegetables that YOUR family commonly eats.





http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9646449/


';Parents have lost touch with the notion that these charts are guides, not rules,'; says Rachel Brandeis, a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association. ';Babies start with a very clean palate and it's your job to mold it.';





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Parents elsewhere in the world certainly take a more freewheeling approach, often starting babies on heartier, more flavorful fare 鈥?from meats in African countries to fish and radishes in Japan and artichokes and tomatoes in France.





The difference is cultural, not scientific, says Dr. Jatinder Bhatia, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics' nutrition committee who says the American approach suffers from a Western bias that fails to reflect the nation's ethnic diversity





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Take rice cereal, for example. Under conventional American wisdom, it's the best first food. But Butte says iron-rich meat 鈥?often one of the last foods American parents introduce 鈥?would be a better choice.





Dr. David Ludwig of Children's Hospital Boston, a specialist in pediatric nutrition, says some studies suggest rice and other highly processed grain cereals actually could be among the worst foods for infants.





';These foods are in a certain sense no different from adding sugar to formula. They digest very rapidly in the body into sugar, raising blood sugar and insulin levels'; and could contribute to later health problems, including obesity, he says.





The lack of variety in the American approach also could be a problem. Exposing infants to more foods may help them adapt to different foods later, which Ludwig says may be key to getting older children to eat healthier.





Food allergy fears get some of the blame for the bland approach. For decades doctors have said the best way to prevent allergies is to limit infants to bland foods, avoiding seasonings, citrus, nuts and certain seafood.





But Butte's review found no evidence that children without family histories of food allergies benefit from this. Others suspect avoiding certain foods or eating bland diets actually could make allergies more likely. Some exposure might be a good thing.





And bring on the spices. Science is catching up with the folklore that babies in the womb and those who are breast-fed taste 鈥?and develop a taste for 鈥?whatever Mom eats. So experts say if Mom enjoys loads of oregano, baby might, too.
My son really likes sweet potato, winter squash, butternut squash and carrots. The nice thing about most of those is that you can roast and bake them at the same time and get a good portion of his meals cooked and mashed in an hour and a half or two hours. Some of his favorite combinations are peas and carrots, corn and squash, apples and squash, banana mixed with his baby oatmeal, Prunes and oatmeal (I buy the Earth's Best Organic Brand. I'm not sure how to puree a prune on my own :O) It's interesting to me that he prefers vegetables over fruit. I was always warned by well meaning relatives that if I started fruit first he would never eat the veggies. It seems every child's tastes are just different right from birth. I hope your little one likes some of these combos!
I would just puree or mash up fruits and veggies. My daughter loved sweet potatoes and you can mash up pretty much any veggie or fruit. I wouldn't give citrus fruits yet. The meals don't really have to be complete meals since breast milk or formula should be their primary source of food and nutrients.
im having 5 month old too....i refer to the link below... really it helps especially for those first time mom, like me....
my children loved potato and red pepper puree, its really easy just put a red pepper under the grill to remove the skin, boil a potato and blend them together. kids love the sweet taste
5 months is a little early to start solids, you can introduce rice cereal from 4 months. It is best to wait until 6 months.
http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/ is the best.





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