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My Brother and Sister in law are coming up next weekend from London with my little 10 month old nephew Harvey, and Mum's wanting some new recipes for "tinker food" as my Brother calls it for the little 'un :hihi:

Anyone know any good recipes suitable for a 10 month old baby?

I know I could Google and I will do, I just thought of asking the foodie group on here first.

I would be inclined to find out what Harvey's eating now.

Is he on commercial baby food or on 'proper' homecooked food?

I have no idea what 'tinker food' is! Clay baked hedgehogs?

Mine used to and still do, eat a lot of stewed fruit. Use apples and pears (or most fruit really) cut up quite fine and just cook slowly in a little water. Christmas it up by adding a little cinammon or nutmeg. Maybe add a teaspoon of sugar if the Mum will permit.

Great thing about this, is that you can eat it on it's own, as a desert, but also on top of porridge, with ice cream, and so on. And it's healthy.

If your nephew is eating finger food some of the best is simply sweet potatoe, parsnip and carrot wedges, roasted.

My little one loves fish.

If you boil some fish in milk and then cook some sweet potato and broccoli and mash it up a little.

Mind you at 10 months if you have any sort of meal with meat, veg and potatoes you can mash it up a little with a fork.

I would ask in the Parenting group you might be able to get lots of suggestions there :)

I just used to cook all my food with no salt, little un used to have more or less whatever we had, just mashed up.

Forgot to say no salt. You could always add your own afterwards.

I have a baby recipe book that I don't really use but could provide some recipes for you.

anything with butternut squash normally a big hit, as most love it. it does depend how well he eats and what stage he is at, which may depend how he was weaned. some find it hard to move from pureed food, others start with finger food so eat lumpy & finger food really well.

my LO's favs are butternut squash risotto, salmon & cous cous (bake salmon in oven with a bay leave, onion, tomato, lemon juice -yum), pasta with anything, mainly homemade tomato sauces which you can also put lots of veggies in, garlic bread, beef/chicken stew (fry meat with onion, add loads of veggies, no/low salt stock and cook til stodgy). Annabel Karmel's recipee books are probably the best and full of great ideas. i tend to still make large batches and freeze small portions so there is always lots of homecooked organic baby food but its still cheaper than stuff in a jar (which mine wont touch anyway)