Making homemade baby recipes can be simple and rewarding, especially when using your own handy kitchen appliance. In fact, your little one will love you for it. I’m sure many of you do it for your own reason but here are some advantages I’m sure you will agree with. For one, You know exactly what your baby is eating, You know that the ingredients are fresh and healthy, You can make your baby’s food to suit his/her preferences and needs, and It will save money!
I’m sure many of you have put a lots of love into creating your tasty homemade recipes and we would love to hear of them. Just by sharing, you could have a chance of winning your very own Magic Bullet Express! It’s simple, just share with us your very best recipe and you could WIN!!! Need some inspiration? Visit the Magic Bullet’s Facebook Page to find some great info and browse through yummy recipes you can whip up in the Magic Bullet!
Magic Bullet wants to know what baby food recipes you make with your Magic Bullet!
Mother’s Day is right around the corner and the Magic Bullet wants to honor all the devoted mothers out there! If you think you have the best baby food recipe, share your recipe with the blogosphere – you might just win a Magic Bullet Express!
Just leave a comment sharing your baby food recipe and who knows maybe your recipe will influence a future Magic Bullet Recipes book!
The great part about this is I have FOUR of these to giveaway! Four Cocktails With Mom readers will win a Magic Bullet Express! The 4 winners will be chosen by Magic Bullet based on the best recipes submitted.
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Giveaway ends May 6th, 2010 at 5pm EST. Open to US only. Winners will be chosen by Magic Bullet and notified by email. Winners will have 48 hours to respond to my email or a new winner will be drawn. USA only
As a thank you for hosting this giveaway I will be receiving a Magic Bullet Express of my own but this in no way affects my views or opinions in any way.
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I’ve never made baby food from scratch. but I do want to try it
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Fruity Yogurt
1/4 cup plain yogurt
1/4 cup cooked, unsweetened fruit
Blend together until smooth.
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Strapplelicious
1 apple
3 strawberries
Mash all fruits together and then blend or puree as needed… add yogurt and/or cereal
My favorite baby food recipes are just taking regular food and adding a bit more.
My baby pizza recipe calls for just extra pizza sauce. When I order from chain restaurants (Papa John’s is my fave) I ask for extra and blend it all together.
Seeing as how I am NOT a cook of any kind, my recipe consists of 1 whole sweet potato. Put it in and grind it up! My kids LOVE sweet potatoes.
Mango Pops
Ingredients:
3/4 peach nectar or plain water
2 1/2 cups frozen mango pieces
1 16 ounce container of plain yogurt
Directions:
Blend and/or puree until you have a smooth liquid
Pour mixture into ice cube trays and freeze until solid. Pop out a cube or 2 and add to a baby safe feeder. Viola. Baby Pops.
This was my daughter’s favorite when she was little, & it’s really simple. Cooked whole wheat pasta, shredded cheddar, & enough milk to thin it & whir that up in the blender. Easy-peasy & daughter used to gobble this up.
(Obviously, this is for an older baby without allergies!)
I used this recipes with all my kids as babies and they loved it:
1 ripe banana
1 ripe pear
1 ripe apple
1 Tbl. oatmeal
dash of cinnamon
1 tbl. milk
Tropical Fruit Salad With Avocado
1/2 ripe avocado, cubed
1/2 small ripe banana, sliced
1/2 kiwi fruit, peeled and sliced
1/4 papaya, peeled and sliced
2oz (1/4 cup) natural, plain yogurt
drop of pure maple syrup (optional)
puree the fruits together.
Stir the maple syrup into the yogurt (if you’re using it), then swirl the yogurt on top of the fruit.
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Bon Apetite Thanksgiving Day nummy-num
1 slice cooked turkey
1/4 cup canned cranberry sauce
Water
Directions
Place the turkey in your food processor. Blend with water, 1 tablespoon at a time, so it becomes a smooth Liquid. The Cranberry sauce will thicken the turkey and water blend. Blend in cranberry sauce to desired consistency. You wont be using the whole recipe so freeze in portions in containers or ice cube trays.
Carrots & Sweet Potatoes
1 carrot
1/2 sweet potato
1/4 t. of unsalted butter
Peel sweept potato and chop carrot and sweet potato into small pieces. Cover with water and boil for 30 minutes. Drain and puree in a food processor, adding the butter and a few tablespoons of water.
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Peel and pit an avocado
Mash with a fork
Peel and mash 1 banana
Place in a blender or food processor and puree.
Squaccoli great for 6-9mths of age
1 medium winter squash
1 tbsp olive oil
1 medium stalk broccoli
1/3 cup water
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Cut winter squash in half; scoop out seeds. Coat squash halves in olive oil and bake for 60 minutes, or until flesh is soft.
Meanwhile, cut broccoli into small pieces and put in steamer. Steam for 5-6 minutes, or until broccoli is tender.
Let cooked winter squash cool to the touch and scoop out flesh from skin. Place peeled squash in blender, along with broccoli florets and blend until completely smooth. Add water if necessary to achieve desired consistency.
Distribute mixture evenly amongst ice cube trays or cupcake tins, dependent upon desired portion size.
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Quick, easy, sweet, and healthy–Sweet Potato Apple Mash!
Steam or bake apples and sweet potatoes together until tender. Puree as needed, adding water to thin if required. See? Simple!
I think bananas and apples are a nice combination for baby.
I used to make this for my grandsons when they were babies. I found it on the web, but don’t remember where.
Peach medley
1 peach, pureed
4 fl oz (1/2 cup) natural yogurt
1 drop pure vanilla essence
pinch powdered nutmeg
drop of maple syrup (optional)
Combine all ingredients. Babies love it!
This may sound kinda different but I would puree Banana’s, Boneless/Skinless Chicken breast, White Rice and Apple juice together for my sons and they loved it.
Ingredients :
1. Apple – 1/4 Cup (finely chopped)
2. Carrot – 1/4 Cup (finely chopped)
3. Beetroot – 1/4 Cup (finely chopped)
4. Oats (Cooked) – 1/4 Cup
5. Milk – 1 Cup
6. Sugar – 2 tsp or less
Method :
1. Cook oats and keep aside.
2. Cook apple, carrot and beetroot in the milk.
3. Puree and then add the cooked oats and sugar. Mix well.
4. Serve immediately or chilled.
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I used to make baby food for my sons when they were babies. I would keep it simple….I would cook carrots and food process them to mush – same with peas. I’d also cook ground beef or chicken and grind them too. Then I’d mix them together and it would be a perfect meal with no preservatives!
Beets – Basic Purée
1 bunch of fresh beets, golden beets have a milder flavor
1. Wash then peel the beets (be sure to cut off the tops, you can actualy steam or saute like spinage.) and then cut the beets into small chunks
2. Place chunks into a steamer pan with just enough water visible through the steamer basket. You may also boil them in a scant amount of water if you prefer.
3. Steam until tender
4. Do not reserve any left over water to use for thinning out the beets as Nitrates may seep into the cooking water
5. Place into Magic Bullet begin pureeing.
6. Add water as necessary to achieve a smooth, thin consistency.
You can also add some apple or pear to sweeten the beets
Since I needed plenty of study time while I was in nursing school and raising wee ones, I would make a huge batch of this chicken/veggie/rice soup, puree it, fill ice cube trays to freeze it, then plop them out as I needed them to save gobs of time. My babies loved it:
1 whole chicken
1 onion, in chunks
1 head garlic
1 bay leaf
4 medium carrots
4 medium potatoes
2 stalks celery
1 cup rice
2 quarts water or chicken broth
Place all ingredients into a crockpot, set on high. Cook for 4-5 hours. Cool. Take out chicken to debone and shred. Take out bay leaf and discard. Remove remaining ingredients and add to chicken. Puree all together, pour into flexible ice cube trays to freeze. Healthy, made from scratch, and my girls gobbled it up.
my slightly older baby loves our homemade smoothies.
We always use a banana, yogurt (we love YoBaby), and ice.
For the liquid we vary milk, or 100% apple juice or orange juice.
For the additional fruit we use whatever is in season – strawberries, kiwi, melon, peaches (canned ones are great), peeled apple or pear (the skin makes it too texturized, as do blueberries).
Blend and enjoy!
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I don’t really make any baby foods. I will puree different fruits for my daughter, but I don’t do anything special to them.
This recipe was one of my son’s favorite dinner food.
1 Sweet Potato
1 Chicken Breast
Chicken Stock to cover
Peel and cube Sweet Potato. Cube Chicken Breast. Place both items in a pan and cover with Chicken Stock. Bring to a boil and simmer until Sweet Potatoes are tender and Chicken Breast is fully cooked.
Then blend.
Let cool before serving. You can freeze the excess.
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Tiny Tummy Thanksgiving:
Even little ones love to celebrate thanksgiving. Unfortunately they’re often too small to dig into the food on the grown-ups table. This baby food recipe blends the flavors of Thanksgiving in an easy to swallow style.
1. Thoroughly wash a sweet potato. Puncture the potato with a fork, wrap, and microwave 5-6 minutes. Potato should be tender. The sweet potato can also be baked if you so choose.
2. Peel the potato. (The skin should pull away from the sweet potato easily.)
3. Cute the sweet potato into cubes.
4. Place diced sweet potato into Magic Bullet Express.
4. Add 2-4 ounces of apple juice (or your child’s favorite – pear also works well).
5. Puree the sweet potato in your Magic Bullet Express until it is the consistency of smooth applesauce.
6. Mix in some oatmeal cereal or pasteurized vanilla yogurt until desired consistency is reached.
Dish it out and enjoy!
Makes 2-3 Servings.
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Take 1/2 banana, 1/2 apple and puree until smooth. Add to baby oatmeal or feed your baby the mixture alone as his/her fruit. You can add a baby carrot to the apple and banana mixture to puree but, please make sure that your child doesn’t have any allergies to carrots.
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best baby food recipe— I mostly buy Earth’s Best because I think it’s healthier than what I can make!! I do make a baby smoothie using vanilla yogurt (that I freeze into cubes), strawberry’s, banana’s, and pineapple– All my boys love this and so do I :-)
This machine was not around when I made baby food for my youngsters, but I can think of lots of uses for this now—-I love smoothies and I think they would make terrific ones.
I dont have any baby food reciepes it has been awhile since my kids were babies,but thus would be great to make salsa and many other things.
1/2+ large banana
insides of 5-6 dates (no skin)
1/4 natural yogurt
-Puree banana and mix in dates. Combine with yogurt. Blend well.
*If your baby likes flavor add a dash of cinnamon.
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Pureed Split Pea Soup
1 cup split peas, rinsed
2 1/2 cups water
Cook the split peas about 45 minutes until tender, adding more water if necessary to make it soupy. Cool and puree in blender.
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Puree chicken pieces, peas and a little water till smooth. The Magic Bullet would sure make it a lot easier.
cut chicken up and put it in sweet potatoes with a little bit of brown sugar
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1/2 cup applesauce
1/2 cup pumpkin puree
1 1/2 cup (cooked) oatmeal
Dash of cinnamon, nutmeg and/or ginger
Mix spices, applesauce, pumpkin puree and oatmeal together
Stir thoroughly or blend if needed
I make this for my nephew. Pumpkin is very high in nutrients and he loves it!
frozen strawberries, blueberries, vanilla yogurt, pineapple juice and ice, it is a yummy smoothie.
Eggplant & Pumpkin Mash
-1 small eggplant
-2 cups pumpkin, peeled and chopped
-Chicken broth
Bake the eggplant in a 350 degree oven until softened, about 30 minutes. Allow to cool, then remove the peel and seeds.
Boil pumpkin until soft. Combine the pumpkin with the cooked eggplant and chicken broth until you get the consistency of baby food.
My son love anything yellow or orange, so I cooked carrots, sweet potatoes and squash and pureed them.
Sometimes I even mixed several together. He loved it!
Frozen strawberries, blueberries, vanilla yogurt, pineapple juice and ice, it is a yummy smoothie.
Sweet Potato Pie
Mix sweet potato, yogurt, cereal and a dash of cinnamon, top with powdered Cheerios – mix well
I really never used a recipe when I made baby food. Just used to mash up fruit & hide veggies in it.
Squished Squash
Ingredients: 1 meduim summer squash
Directions: Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cut the squash in half lengthwise and scoop out the seeds. Place the squash flesh side down on a baking sheet. Bake for 45 minutes or until very tender. It will be done when skin puckers. Scoop out the flesh and puree in food processor or blender until smooth, adding water if needed.
I take mature organic carrots and trim ends and wash well. Microwave and then puree them!
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My son enjoyed melon, yogurt, and fruit juice pureed together. Delicious, sweet, and good for you!
I used to blend together cooked carrots, slightly cooked raisins, and a bit of apple sauce. She loved it.
It would be wonderful to win the Magic Bullet. I kind find so many uses for one today. Thanks for the chance.
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Sweet Potato Custard
1 cup mashed cooked sweet potato
1/2 cup mashed banana
1 cup evaporated skim milk
2 Tbs packed brown sugar
2 beaten egg yolks
1/2 tsp salt
Nonstick cooking spray, as needed
1 Tbsp sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
Get out a bowl and add the sweet potato and banana to it. Make sure both are well mashed. Add the milk and stir until combined. Add the brown sugar, egg yolks and the salt and mix well.
Add the mixture to a 1 quart casserole dish that has been sprayed with the cooking spray.
Combine the sugar and cinnamon in a small cup or bowl and sprinkle it over top of sweet potato mixture.
Bake at 325 for 45 minutes. Your custard is done when a knife or toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
My son always loved when I boiled apples until tender then added to a blender with crushed graham crackers. Blend until pureed and crackers soften within a few minutes for easy swallowing.
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My baby’s favorite food at the moment is hamburger soup. Hamburger, frozen mixed veggies, diced tomatoes, cubed potatoes, low sodium beef broth, and parsley. she inhales the food (as long as it is sufficiently blended :)
bananas, strawberries and pears for dessert.
This is amazing!
1 serving vanilla yogurt
1 mango, peeled, pitted
dash wheat germ
Puree the mango, then stir into the yogurt. Sprinkle with wheat germ.