Recipes

Vegetarian Weaning Recipes

Tried and tested – more food ideas, tested by thriving Viva! babies! The following list isn’t recipes as such but some weaning dishes enjoyed by the babies of Viva! staff. All ideas are dairy-free and so suitable for lactose intolerant, vegan and vegetarian babies - and anyone who wants their baby to have a healthy start.

The following list isn’t recipes as such but some weaning dishes enjoyed by the babies of Viva! staff. All ideas are dairy-free and so suitable for lactose intolerant, vegan and vegetarian babies - and anyone who wants their baby to have a healthy start! 

Try to buy organic fruit and veg for your baby - as no chemical pesticides and fertilizers have been used on them.

Put the foods in a food processor to reach a very smooth consistency when first weaning and when your baby is older you can let the mixture become lumpier.

It saves loads of time to make batches of food and to freeze them in ice cube trays. You then just defrost as many cubes as and when you need them.

• Mashed marrow, sweet potato and carrot
• Puréed steamed carrots, butternut squash, parsnips & Tofutti plain cream cheese (a vegan cheese like Philadelphia available from most health food shops)
• Puréed steamed sweet potatoes, carrots, swede and cabbage and a mildly favoured canned bean such as butter beans, flageolet, cannelini or chick peas
• Mashed potato with defrosted frozen spinach (2 cork sized pieces) and grated vegan cheese  (hard vegan cheeses such as Redwoods' Cheddar Cheezly or Bute Island Scheese Cheshire or Cheddar flavours are available from most health food shops) 
• Puréed unsulphured apricots, with oats, baby rice, desiccated coconut and breast or soya formula milk. (for a fact sheet on soya formula see www.vegetarian.org.uk or call the Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation on 0117 970 5190 for a copy)
• Puréed, unsweetened tinned apricots (drained from their fruit juice) with mashed banana and oatmeal.
• Mashed banana and avocado
• Puréed tinned pear with mashed banana, 2 dried figs, 2 dried dates and 2 dried apricots (add baby rice if a thicker consistency desired) See above for how to prepare. 
• Provamel Plain Yofu  (a dairy-free yogurt available from most supermarkets and health stores) with pureed apricots and banana
• Provamel Plain Yofu with baby rice and soya milk (becomes a lovely cream alternative)

Introduction | Foods for Weaning and How to Prepare Them | Tried & Tested by Viva! Babies