Weaning Recipes
Have your read my new REAL FOOD way to wean your child? Its called Nurture Your Life (link here). These weaning recipes are all featured in the book.
Here are all the recipes with their links from the book. Let me know your favourite!
First foods:
(4-8 months depending on child’s ability to sit up)
Fish eggs
Parsnip rice (steamed of stirfried in Ghee)
Sweet Potato/carrot Chips (cut into battons and lightly steamed or baked tossed in coconut oil.
Steamed broccoli
Sliced avocado
Sliced pear
Scrambled egg yolks (separate the eggs and scramble the yolks in a little ghee)
Mashed banana
Green smoothies (make with powdered greens and fresh coconut water or water kefir)
Apple Sauce
Rhubarb and ginger sauce
Miso soup
Seaweed snacks (ensure the ingredients contain healthy fats and no MSG)
6-12 months
Coconut and ginger chicken soup
Sweet Potato Falafel (use flax/chia as an egg replacer until 12 months or just use egg yolk)
Cauliflower Cheese nuggets (same advice as above for eggs)
Beef Jerky made with thinly sliced beef
Chia porridge (use breast, coconut or oat milk) with coconut yoghurt
Banana Flax Crackers or quinoa flatbreads serve with:
Coconut butter/yoghurt
Hummus add some fermented garlic for an added fermented kick
Tahini and avocado
Rasperries/blackberries/watermelon/mango (mango seeds are great for kids to suck on)
Fat banana custard (before 12 months only use the egg yolks)
Balls of Energy (until 12months use only seeds)
12-18 months
based on elimination diet protocols can start to introduce egg white, nuts, raw honey. (Try to keep grains to a minimum or traditionally prepared and served with something fermented until 2years)
Blender Waffles/Blender pancakes
Grain free granola (until you have checked nuts you can just use a variety of seeds; pumpkin, sesame, sunflower, chia and ground flax. Try this salty cinnamon flavour
Slow cooked apple, rhubarb and ginger porridge (serve with coconut yoghurt)
Almond milk
Nate’s Kefir Blueberry Mawfins
Salty Cinnamon Maple Grain Free Granola
