Don't Be Fooled: Let Your Babies Choose Their Food

It’s Amazing The Inaccurate Information That Popular Authors Sell I was reading a best selling baby food recipe book the other day, and found myself getting irritated, no, ANGRY, at the book! While I think the author was writing with the best of intentions, the advice she gave went against all grains of common sense [...]

Feeding Your Baby

When you are a first time parent one of the questions that will run through your mind is what should I be feeding my baby, when should they start solids and what nutritional foods should I be giving them. Note: This is general advice only, and while it is based off facts and information given [...]

The Milk Free Baby

Whether you have a baby with dairy in-tolerances or allergies, or you have a conscientious objection to using milk, or you simply aren’t convinced of the dietary goodness of milk in your child’s diet, there are lots of ways to ensure your baby receives all the nutrients they need in their diet. Breast Is Best [...]

5 Strategies To Gently Wean Your Reluctant Toddler

In an ideal world, toddlers and young children would eventually wean themselves however this isn’t always practical or even ideal for the family relationships. Here at Natural Parenting Tips we are big advocates of extended breastfeeding and consider it to be the normal way to feed a child. We recognise that the natural weaning age [...]

Banana Frozen Yoghurt

These can be made with any fruit, but our family likes Bananas, they freeze with a nice consistency. We use lickety sip style popsicle molds, but you can use paper cups and pop sticks if you’re in a pinch. You will need: 1 cup of natural plain yoghurt 1 cup of mashed banana 1 tablespoon [...]

Baby Led Weaning

The thing I really love about baby led weaning, that is forgoing the standard puree and mush on a spoon method, is that my son can actively paricipate in family meals. He’s now about 8 months old, and sits at the table with us. We eat breakfast as a family, lunch as a family, and dinner [...]

Baby Led Weaning

The thing I really love about baby led weaning, that is forgoing the standard puree and mush on a spoon method, is that my son can actively paricipate in family meals. He’s now about 8 months old, and sits at the table with us. We eat breakfast as a family, lunch as a family, and dinner [...]

How To Make Vegetables More Enticing

The following are recipes that we frequently use in our house, to make vegetables more interesting. Now that Master 2 is pickier over his food, we have to be more creative to encourage him to at least try things. Tomato and Capsicum Salsa 1 Tomato diced 1 red onion diced 1 Tablespoon of tomato paste [...]

Home Made Rusk Recipe

This recipe will make about 2 dozen baby rusks, depending on how you cut them up. You can substitute the pureed apple for pureed anything your baby eats (fruit and vegetables). Pumpkin and Parsnip are favourites here. Ingredients 1 cup of Rice Flour 1 Cup of pureed cooked apple (Steam it until it’s tender, then [...]

Solid "Food" For Babies Before 6 Months

Our youngest was 3 months old when he started showing an interest in food. By 4 months, he was trying to touch it when sitting on our laps. By 5 months, there was no peace when eating a meal. We were at a loss, he wasn’t able to sit up on his own, so clearly [...]