Healthy baby food recipes such as banana wheat & apple cereal, caramel custard, mixed grain porridge, finger millet porridge, sweet potato & semolina porrdige and more
Introducing solids to your baby at 6 months is a milestone not only for babies but for mothers as well. Searching for baby food recipes becomes a mission. Your mental equilibrium depends on how readily your baby eats all the food. Sounds about right, right? 🙂 Well that sure describes my state as a new …
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Quick and simple dal recipe for babies, toddlers, and kids. This non-spicy dal can be served to kids as an accompaniment with parathas, chillas etc.
Devansh is now three and a half, and I still find a good porridge recipe useful. “My child doesn’t drink milk” is one of the most common concerns of moms of toddlers. Devansh, no longer a toddler, still isn’t a big fan of milk. So I add milk to his food, especially his breakfast meal. This …
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Slumber, reverie, fatigue, or sheer laziness—I don’t quite know how to describe my state in the past month. Maybe it was a combination of all these and more that resulted me in not posting anything for over a month. And it was not for lack of content. Thanks to the involvement and enthusiasm of all you lovely …
Easy porridge recipe for babies and toddlers. Porridge contains calcium-rich ragi (finger millet) and milk, and iron-rich jaggery.
My ex-colleague, Shilpi, is such an exuberant and enthusiastic person that her positive energy permeates even through Facebook. Shilpi’s regular updates about her activities with her children, Rishabh and Ryka, are truly delightful. She has been very encouraging about my blog right from the beginning and participates on my Facebook page actively. If you’ll remember, on my Facebook page, …
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I wanted to make tomato and carrot soup for Devansh this time. We all know that these two “vegetables” provide us several health benefits. Well actually tomato is a fruit…but yeah, you know what i mean. :-p Tomatoes are a rich source of potassium, plus anti-oxidants in tomatoes contain good amounts of vitamins A and …
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“Winter in Mumbai” is probably the biggest oxymoron of all. Here in Mumbai, we get our woolies out when the mercury touches 20o Celsius. After the wretched October heat, we start looking forward to November, which brings with it cool and pleasant climate. And what better food than soups to welcome the winter, right? I …
It’s been a while since I posted a baby food recipe because these days I mostly make toddler food. But there’s this porridge which I’ve been making for Devansh for the past couple of months that is suitable for babies too. I have to thank Uma for giving me this amazing powder made of ragi …
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There’s no arguing the fact that you should be making your own baby food. But sometimes you just don’t have the time to cook all of your baby’s meals. Let’s face it, taking care of your baby’s needs and doing even basic household chores is a big challenge when you are severely sleep deprived. And …
Sometime back, I had come across some yummy smoothie recipes listed as “healthy breakfast smoothies”. One of the smoothies was made using oats, banana, and yogurt. Now I didn’t have yogurt at home so I thought let me try making oatmeal instead of a smoothie. I decided to substitute banana with mango. After all it …
I am a big soup fan just like my dad. Whenever we went out to eat, my dad and I would order a soup. My mom used to think it as an appetite spoiler, although now even she likes soups. I remember making cream of spinach soup for my dad some 12-14 years back. I …
My mother has been making rice porridge for eons. In Marathi we call it “takatli ukad”. I don’t know why I didn’t make this porridge for Devansh earlier; it is such an easy-peasy recipe. My mom doesn’t add curry leaves and veggies though. I add curry leaves for flavor and veggies for nutrition. I avoid …
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I first made sooji ka halwa—or sheera as we Maharashtrians call it—for Devansh when he was around 9 months old. By that time he had started eating khichdis, ragi porridge, poha, and moong-daal rice. I wanted to introduce sooji in his diet because of its health benefits. As I have written in my Vegetable Upma …
A simple, quick, easy, nutritious recipe of fried bananas for babies and toddlers. Especially if you are looking for weight gain. Bananas are rich in dietary fiber, magnesium, and potassium. Potassium is good for bone development, making this an ideal baby food.
