Looking for homemade infant baby food recipes?   Here at Celiac-Disease.com, we’ve managed to locate a few recipes that can help parents who are looking for gluten free baby foods they can make for their child at home.   Enjoy!

Gluten Free Ground Rice with Apples Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 small eating apple
• 2 tablespoons ground rice
• 4 fl oz (110ml) milk or milk substitute
• 1 tsp reduced sugar jam

Directions:

1. You can use a microwave to prepare this meal, but allow time for cooling as you could burn your baby’s mouth if you feed it to him too soon.
2. Core, peel and slice the apple.
3. Place it in a small bowl and microwave on high power until soft.
4. Mash with a fork or pop in the food mill or processor.
5. Meanwhile place the ground rice and half the milk into another bowl and mix to form a paste.
6. Add the remaining milk and microwave on high power for around 4 minutes.
7. Mix the apple pulp and jam into the rice, cool then serve.

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Looking for homemade infant baby food recipes?   Here at Celiac-Disease.com, we’ve managed to locate a few recipes that can help parents who are looking for gluten free baby foods they can make for their child at home.     Enjoy!

Gluten Free Coconut Raisin Pudding Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 small apple
• 1 oz raisins
• 4 tbsp unsweetened apple or orange juice
• 1/2 oz dessicated coconut

Directions:

1. Peel, core and slice the apple.
2. Put into a small saucepan with the juice and raisins and cook on a low ring for around 10 minutes or until the apple is soft.
3. Take off the heat and stir in the coconut.
4. Liquidise, cool and serve.

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Looking for homemade infant baby food recipes?   Here at Celiac-Disease.com, we’ve managed to locate a few recipes that can help parents who are looking for gluten free baby foods they can make for their child at home.     Enjoy!

Gluten Free Chicken with Vegatables Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/2 chicken breast
• 1 tomato
• 1 small potato
• 1 slice carrot
• 1 slice onion
• 4 broccoli spears

Directions:

1. Place the chicken, onion, carrot, and tomato into a saucepan.
2. Cover with water and bring to the boil.
3. Turn the heat down and simmer for around 45 minutes until the chicken is tender.
4. Meanwhile, cut the potato in half and place in a steamer, along with the broccoli, over a pan of boiling water.
5. Steam for around 20 minutes.
6. When the chicken is cooked, strain, reserving the stock. Skin the potato and add, with the broccoli to the other ingredients.
7. For young babies place in a liquidiser and blend until smooth.
8. Add some of the stock to moisten if necessary.
9. For older babies you can puree the chicken, but just mash the vegetables, leaving some texture for the baby to explore.
10. Cool and serve.

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When dealing with Celiac disease the best way to ensure the foods you eat are gluten free is to make them yourself. This includes food for your youngest Celiac as well. All that is required to quickly and easily prepare your babies meals is a blender or food processor for pureeing chopped foods.

This is not a specific recipe, rather its is a method for making basic baby food. For the youngest eater you can make smooth, easy to swallow baby food. And as your child grows, you can change the consistency relatively easily. When starting your baby on solid foods remember to always introduce one food at a time, spacing a few days in between each new food. Doing this gives you the ability to take note of any adverse reactions to certain foods.

Making Homemade Baby Food

Ingredients:

• Water, breast milk or prepared formula

Fruits:

• Apples
• Pears
• Bananas
• Papayas

Vegetables:

• Carrots
• Potatoes
• Butternut squash
• Sweet potatoes
• Pumpkin
• Rutabaga
• Parsnips

Optional:

• Rice Cereal

Directions:

1. Choose your ingredient(s). Remember to start off using one at a time, but as your child successfully tries each ingredient you can mix and match (i.e. apple & banana or carrots & pumpkin) for new flavors.
2. Cut your ingredient(s) into small, bite size pieces. They will cook faster and be easier to puree.
3. Cook your ingredient(s) by either steaming or baking until they are soft.
4. Ripened bananas and papayas don’t require cooking, just peel and mash if using them.
5. Once your ingredient(s) are soft, use a blender or food processer to puree them while adding water, breast milk or formula.
6. The consistency of the puree will depend on where your child is at regarding eating. Infants just starting out will need a thinner consistency whereas more seasoned eaters can have it thicker. Also, if you plan on adding rice cereal you will want the consistency thinner as the cereal will thicken it up.
7. Once your food is pureed to the consistency you want, you can stir in some rice cereal if you choose to do so.

[Recipe courtesy of ehow.com]

Once your baby has mastered eating the Basic Baby Food Recipe, you can begin to add in meats and new fruits and vegetables. As with the basic recipe, you will want to make sure you try any new ingredients one at a time leaving a few days in between to watch for any adverse reaction to the new food. Now that your baby is older, the food should be thicker, and as he develops teeth, chunkier so he can work on learning to chew. Again, mix and match, especially when introducing meats as many youngsters have a hard time adjusting to the taste of meat. For an added treat, you can also add cooked rice once you feel your baby can handle it.

Ingredients:

Meat:

• Chicken
• Beef
• Ham
• Turkey

Fruits:

• Peach
• Cranberry
• Blueberry
• Cantaloupe

Vegetables:

• Broccoli
• Peas

Optional:

• Cooked Rice

Directions:

1. Choose your ingredient(s). Remember to start off using one at a time, but as your child successfully tries each ingredient you can mix and match (i.e. apple & banana or carrots & pumpkin) for new flavors.
2. Cut your ingredient(s) into small, bite size pieces. They will cook faster and be easier to puree.
3. Cook your ingredient(s) by either steaming, baking or for meat, broiling or poaching until they are soft.
4. Once your ingredient(s) are soft, use a blender or food processer to puree them while adding water, breast milk or formula.
5. The consistency of the puree should be somewhat thick.
6. Once your food is pureed to the consistency you want, you can stir in some cooked rice if you choose to do so.

[Recipe courtesy of ehow.com]

In certain situations where there is a family history of Celiac Disease, babies are sometimes diagnosed with Celiac disease while still at the infant stage.

For these children as well as other infants with special dietary needs, Gerber has created baby food products called Beech Nut Baby Foods.