Starting Solids Archives - Happy Healthy Eaters

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Creamy Edamame Dip [baby & toddler friendly]

A creamy and luscious dip made with whole ingredients and the goodness of edamame beans! Learn how to serve this dietitian approved recipe to your baby and the entire family.

a plate of baby teether biscuits surrounded by cinnamon sticks, a bowl of prunes, eggs, and a rolling pin

Homemade Teething Biscuits

There are a lot of teething crackers in the baby food aisle, but we have a feeling you’ll love our recipe because it’s made with whole foods and we cleverly use iron fortified infant cereal to make sure your baby gets in a bit of iron!

A bowl of kid-friendly black bean dip on a snack board with fresh veggies and crackers.

Baby & Kid-Friendly Black Bean Dip [vegan + Instant Pot recipe]

A versatile black bean dip you can use as a dip for veggies, in quesadillas or even serve to your baby!

a jar of berry chia sauce surrounded by fresh strawberries and blueberries

Chia Berry Sauce

Enjoy this healthy, no-sugar added, and fibre rich fruit sauce with your baby and the rest of the family. Harnessing chia seeds’ amazing thickening power, it’s beyond easy to prepare and incredibly tasty.

tired mom in a yellow shirt holding a sleeping baby at a table

Will Starting Solids Help My Baby Sleep Longer?

Feeling exhausted and wished your baby slept longer? Hoping that starting solids might help? Sleep and nutrition experts weigh in on this hot topic.

anda bhurji recipe for baby pictured in a frying pan and on plates with naan bread alongside ghee

Anda Bhurji for Baby Recipe

This is a recipe that uses egg as the main ingredient and it’s near and dear to Nita’s heart and childhood memories. Full of flavour, veggies, and wholesome goodness from eggs, this dish is made on a rotation in many desi homes and we hope you try it too.

An overhead iamge of the three different baby hamburger recipes and some of the ingredients used to make them. A hand is coming in from the right of the image to add a prune puree sauce to one burger.

Baby Beef Burgers – 3 Recipes

Flavourful and moist burger recipes designed with your baby’s nutritional needs in mind.

collage of foods you can make in the instant pot for baby food: grains, eggs, veggies, beans, and even sterilizing bottles!

6 Ways to Use the Instant Pot for Baby Food

With so much to do and usually not enough time, it’s always handy to add more tools in your parenting tool kit. Today’s parenting tool is…a literal tool you might have in your kitchen! An electric pressure cooker, aka an Instant Pot. You’ll learn about a few key ways you can use this kitchen gadget to help with baby and family meal prep!