Comments on: Activity #55: Feed your baby pumpkin

By: Naomi

Naomi — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:59:22 +0000

Pureed pumpkin was the first food I fed my baby. He LOVED it!

By: kerry

kerry — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:09:48 +0000

Absolutely will try!! great site guys!

By: decafmom

decafmom — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:11:15 +0000

So glad you like the pancake recipes, Heather!

I just posted some recipes for easy, healthy “ice cream”… One of them is Pumpkin Spice Ice Cream – another great use for canned pumpkin that’s a fun treat for kids (though I think I enjoy it more than my preschooler!).
http://decafmom.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/easy-recipe-healthy-ice-cream/

By: Maegan

Maegan — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:17:11 +0000

I love the winter squashes for baby food!!! Target had a brand of organic purees that I used to LOOOOVE. Don’t have a super Target anymore…but I will stock up when I go home this winter.

By: RookieMom Heather

RookieMom Heather — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:59:15 +0000

Ooh, we got a new one in via twitter from @craftyluci: Pumpkin chunks w thyme & coriander=great fingerfood

By: RookieMom Heather

RookieMom Heather — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:37:14 +0000

@decafmom I’m glad you stopped back. I was recently hunting for your veggie pancake recipe and now I’ve saved it again!

@Jennifer I’ll have to try the kale thing. Intriguing.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:33:06 +0000

We LOVE pumpkin pancakes! I use a banana pancake recipe and just replace the banana with pumpkin puree and add a bit of cinnamon and nutmeg.

Even better…harvest your own by buying the pumpkin and roasting it. But, admittedly, I think a can of organic pumpkin is cheaper!

We are past baby food puree but last fall we mixed a little bit of cooked kale (chopped really fine in the cuisinart) in with pumpkin…maybe 1 part kale to 3 parts or more pumpkin. Kale is such a super food!

By: Doreen

Doreen — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:12:23 +0000

We love pumpkin everything in our house. This week, when I made curried pumpkin soup, we gave our 11-month-old pumpkin with curried rice: a slight dash of Curry powder, rice cereal, pumpkin. Yummy and savory, and she felt like she was getting to eat what we were eating (ours was spicy and included dairy products so she couldn’t just share).

Also, the pumpkin and vanilla yogurt you suggested mixed spread on multigrain toast and cut into little pea-sized pieces is nice at breakfast.

By: decafmom

decafmom — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:03:37 +0000

My favorite is pumpkin oatmeal! I admit I haven’t tried it for the baby yet, but I love to stir canned pumpkin, some pumpkin pie spice, and real maple syrup into my morning oatmeal. For the little one I think some canned pumpkin in baby cereal (rice or oat or whatever) would be awesome.

I’d probably use the rest of the can on pumpkin pancakes for the preschooler. (Can probably get away with mixing just pumpkin with eggs, and maybe a little whole-wheat flour or oats to hold it all together… much like the “lunch pancakes” recipes on my blog.)

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:05:48 +0000

Oh! You stole my favorite. I have fed my kids so much pumpkin over the years. It’s overlooked by most parents. So easy, so nutritious. And with cinnamon and a little vanilla yogurt, it tastes more like pie than you’d imagine.

Okay – here’s another entry: refried black beans from the can. You can buy organic ones. You can buy all vegetarian ones if you want (i.e., not made with lard). (You can buy low-fat ones if you prefer, though there’s no need — babies need fat for brain and eye development.)