5 healthy homemade baby food recipes

By The Canadian Living Test Kitchen

Healthy baby food recipes that will broaden your wee one's palate.

5 healthy homemade baby food recipes

From top: Dhal for Beginners, Halibut with Leeks and Broccoli, Vegetable Quinoa
Photography by David Scott

Mother and cookbook author Nicole Young says the key to developing your child's healthy palate – and to avoid raising a picky eater – is twofold: start early, start at home.

Make your own:
• Use fresh, seasonal ingredients, or frozen when not in season.

• Avoid salt and sugar.

• Avoid any foods with nitrates (cold cuts, prepared foods) and food colouring.

• Have each person in your parents' group prepare a different vegetable or fruit. Then freeze them in trays and swap so that you have a variety but have only prepared one type.

• Be persistent. Children might not like something new the first time they try it. Add a little bit of a new vegetable to one they already like and they will be more accepting.

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