What do you give your baby when they are getting too old for baby rice?

As with many mothers, I gave my baby pureed vegetables as his 1st foods. He loved carrot, broccoli, suede, cauliflower, broad beans (taking the skins off before pureeing them was fun!). He wasn’t so keen on peas.

I found pureeing a couple of days worth of veg and freezing it in ice cube trays was really convenient. An ice cube amount of veg was just right for him to begin with. As he got hungrier, he progressed to 2 cubes then 3 then 4. After that he started eating chunkier food.

The health visitor advised me to get him onto vegetables before fruit. He would like the sweet taste of fruit and might reject vegetables if given them too soon. That sounded like good advice. When he tasted his first strawberry, you could see by the look on his face that it was the best thing he had ever tasted!

Here’s my photo story of pureeing vegetables.

Wash and chop up and cook the veg until soft. (My mum suggested I used the cooled boiled water used to cook the veg as a drink for my son. He loved it, and got all the nutrients from the water.) Puree with a fork, masher, or my favourite an electric blender.

Once in a smooth paste, spoon into a clean ice cube tray. Pop the tray into the freezer.

Pop out the required amount of cubes, either defrost naturally, or heat gently.

Make sure food is only luke warm throughout before feeding your baby!

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