As with all food for your baby, make sure everything in the recipe is something you have already fed your baby or that your baby is the right age to begin the new ingredients. Most of these recipes would be considered Stage 2 recipes, that is, more suited to a child 7-8 months and up.

Purees Recipe

Once you have mastered making simple purees with one ingredient, you can begin to combine purees. This is as simple as taking two different cubes of foods out of the freezer, allowing them to thaw, and mixing them together with cereal or yogurt. You could also puree the ingredients together. I made a huge batch of pureed spinach for my son who promptly decided never to allow it past his lips. If I mixed a spinach cube with a sweet potato cube, however, he was perfectly content with it. Some good combinations are below.

Some good puree combinations:

Acorn or butternut squash mixed with sweet potato
Apples, acorn or butternut squash, sweet potato
Green beans and apples or pears
Avocado and banana mixed with cereal
Pumpkin and banana
Pumpkin, bananas, and apples
Any puree mixed with cereal

Some puree combinations for older babies (8 months and up):

Add cinnamon to squash or sweet potatoes
Blend white potatoes and green beans, add apples or pears if desired
Mix peas, carrots, apples, rice or oatmeal, and yogurt
Apples, carrots, rice or oatmeal, and yogurt
Sweet potato, yogurt, cereal, and a dash of cinnamon
Cereal, yogurt, apples, and cinnamon
Pumpkin, cereal, yogurt, and cinnamon
Blueberry, apple, pear, yogurt, and cinnamon

(You can add crushed cheerios to many of these to add texture)

Cinnamon Apple Oatmeal Raisin Cereal Infant Recipe

4 apples
½ cup golden raisins
¼ tsp ground cinnamon
12 ounces water or apple juice
½ cup baby oatmeal or cereal

Wash and peel the apples (peeling is optional). Cut each apple in half and remove core. Cut each half into six pieces. Put apple pieces, raisins, cinnamon, and water or apple juice in pot. Turn the burner on high and cover. Cook approximately seven minutes, stirring once.
Add oatmeal and cook one more minute, stirring through the final minute. Pour everything into a blender or puree with an immersion blender. Pour into two ice cube trays and allow to cool.
Wrap and freeze

Notes:
I have made this successfully with dried cranberries instead of raisins. A lovely option for the holidays, especially if you add some sweet potato instead of cereal!

Blueberry and Apple Baby Recipe

4 apples
1 cup fresh blueberries
8 ounces water or apple juice

Wash and peel the apples (peeling is optional). Cut each apple in half and remove core. Cut each half into six pieces. Look over blueberries for stems. Put apple pieces, blueberries, and water or juice into a pot. Turn burner on high and cover. Cook for approximately 8 minutes, stirring once. Pour into a blender or puree with an immersion blender.
Pour into two ice cube trays and allow to cool.
Wrap and freeze.

Notes:
I still make this for both my kids. I just call it blueberry applesauce. I also now make it in larger batches in the crock pot. Throw apples and blueberries in crock pot with a bit of water and cook till it is mashable. Then I add cinnamon and puree. I still freeze it but in larger portions!

Carrot and Ginger Recipe for Babies

1 ½ lbs carrots
1 tbsp fresh ginger
20 ounces water

Put water into pot and put on high heat. Wash and peel carrots. Cut off stems and discard. Cut carrots lengthwise and cut into 8 or 10 pieces. If using baby carrots, you probably can skip this step. Peel and mince ginger. Throw carrots and ginger into pot and cook till tender but not mushy.
Pour into a blender or puree with an immersion blender. Pour into two ice cube trays and allow to cool. Wrap and freeze.

Finger Foods Recipes Ideas

Banana Pancakes

Pancake batter (made from your favorite mix or from scratch)
Bananas

Slice bananas into about ½ inch thick slices. Dip one at a time into pancake batter, covering it completely. Put the covered banana coin onto a griddle and cook exactly as you would cook a pancake.

Notes:
You can also use peeled, cored, and sliced apples. You could also mix a couple cubes of your sweet potato puree and cinnamon into pancake batter. You can also make large batches and freeze these. I like to pull out a couple from the freezer when I need them so I don’t have to make them fresh every time.

Meatballs

1 lb lean ground beef (or ½ pork and ½ beef or all turkey)
1 cup bread crumbs
1 tbsp dried parsley and/or basil
1/8 to ¼ cup parmesan cheese
Pinch black pepper
Pinch garlic powder
1 egg

Preheat oven to 375. Mix all ingredients together and form into balls. Bake 25 minutes. Turn meatballs if you desire. Allow to cool and freeze desired amount. Be sure to cut into pieces for your child when serving.

Notes:
A great option to freeze and pull out as needed for a baby who is on finger foods – 10 months and up. Make sure your baby has been exposed to eggs. Also, if you choose to serve with tomato sauce, make sure your baby can have tomatoes.

Simple Noodle Soup

Chicken broth
Small noodles (pearl pasta, alphabets, or stars)
Optional: Carrot pieces, peas, small chicken pieces

Add 3 or 4 cups chicken broth to a pot and turn burner on medium. Bring to gentle boil. Add 1 ½ cups pasta. Add a sprinkle or garlic powder and ground ginger if you wish (ginger is great for calming upset tummies). Cook 10 minutes or until pasta is done. Turn heat to low and cook about 5 minutes more. Add cooked carrots, peas, or pieces of cooked chicken if your child is ready for them.

Notes:
To make soups easier to spoon feed, add crushed crackers, crushed cheerios, or baby cereal till the soup is a consistency you like. This also makes it easier for those learning to use a spoon to eat the soup. A friend of mine used to strain the broth and give her kids the noodles, chicken, etc from the soup to eat when they were ready for finger foods.