From the YummyYucky team, founded by Nancy Nash

Baby recipes

Every recipe here is built for a new eater: soft textures, no added salt, no honey before one, and the allergens named up front. Log what you serve in YummyYucky and the allergen tracker keeps watch.

• 🥜 Apple and peanut butter oats · Keeps peanut in the rotation, with soft apple.
• 🍎 Apple and tahini oats · Sesame introduced in a soft, sweet bowl.
• 🍎 Apple cinnamon oatmeal · Cozy and smooth.
• 🍎 Apple oatmeal · Soft oats with grated apple.
• 🥑 Avocado and mango mash · No cooking, creamy and bright. A two-minute first food.
• 🥑 Avocado and pear mash · Buttery avocado with sweet pear.
• 🥑 Avocado banana mash · Two-ingredient, no-cook, always a hit.
• 🥑 Avocado toast fingers · Simple self-feeding strips.
• 🥑 Avocado, banana and oats · Buttery avocado in a soft oat bowl.
• 🥔 Baby tater tots · The freezer-aisle favorite, baked soft with no salt and no deep fryer.
• 🐟 Baked fish sticks · Flaky baked cod fingers instead of the salty boxed kind.
• 🌰 Banana and almond butter oats · Nutty, creamy, and iron-friendly.
• 🍌 Banana and peanut butter oats · A gentle way to keep peanut in the rotation once introduced.
• 🥞 Banana oat pancakes · Three ingredients, no sugar.
• 🍌 Banana oat yogurt bowl · A fast, no-cook breakfast that doubles as a snack.
• 🍌 Banana oatmeal · Two-ingredient, creamy, and quick.
• 🥞 Banana tahini pancakes · Whole-grain banana pancakes with tahini and egg. Best once wheat, egg, sesame, and milk are each introduced on their own.
• 🥩 Beef and sweet potato mash · Iron-rich red meat with sweet potato.
• 🥩 Beef, carrot and potato stew · A soft, iron-rich toddler stew, unsalted and gentle.
• 🟣 Beet and apple puree · Earthy, bright, and a little sweet. A colorful first veg.
• 🫓 Black bean and cheese quesadilla strips · A handheld Latin-inspired lunch, cut into safe strips.
• 🫘 Black bean and rice bowl · Soft beans and rice, lightly mashed.
• 🥦 Broccoli and cauliflower mash · Soft, gummable greens and whites.
• 🥦 Broccoli and potato mash · A gentle green veg mellowed with soft potato.
• 🥦 Broccoli trees · The stalk is a built-in handle.
• 🎃 Butternut and apple puree · Sweet squash rounded out with apple.
• 🎃 Butternut squash puree · Sweet, velvety first food.
• 🥕 Carrot & lentil mash · Iron-rich and smooth.
• 🥕 Carrot and apple mash · Sweet, soft, and easy for a first spoon.
• 🥕 Carrot and red lentil mash · Soft veg plus iron-rich lentils, a nourishing early savory.
• 🥕 Carrot and sweet potato puree · Two sweet roots, silky smooth.
• 🥔 Cauliflower and potato mash · Smooth, mild, and comforting.
• 🧀 Cheese and veggie melt fingers · Melty toast fingers with soft veg.
• 🧀 Cheese toast fingers · Melty, soft strips for little hands.
• 🧀 Cheesy broccoli pasta · A toddler favorite, soft pasta with hidden greens.
• 🧀 Cheesy scrambled egg · Egg and dairy in one soft bite.
• 🍗 Chicken & veggie mash · A savory, iron-rich meal.
• 🍝 Chicken and broccoli pasta · Soft pasta with chicken and greens.
• 🍚 Chicken and rice congee · A soft, soothing East Asian rice porridge, easy to gum.
• 🍗 Chicken, carrot and rice · A soft, savory one-bowl dinner with iron from the chicken.
• 🍚 Chicken, pea and rice · A soft, comforting one-bowl meal.
• 🍗 Chicken, sweet potato and apple · A savory-sweet dinner with iron from the chicken.
• 🌿 Chickpea and spinach rice · Soft chickpeas and greens over rice.
• 🍝 Chickpea and tomato pasta · A soft, plant-protein pasta with a mild tomato sauce.
• 🐟 Cod and pea mash · A mild white fish with soft peas, easy to gum.
• 🐟 Cod and sweet potato mash · Mild white fish with sweet potato.
• 🥣 Cornmeal porridge for babies · The Caribbean breakfast, cooked soft and thin enough for a first spoon.
• 🍌 Cottage cheese with banana · Creamy protein with soft banana.
• 🍑 Cottage cheese with soft peach · A no-cook protein and fruit snack, soft and cool.
• 🫛 Edamame and rice bowl · Soft, mashed soybeans over rice.
• 🥑 First guacamole · Ripe avocado and a squeeze of lime. The mild version the guide means.
• 🧀 First mac and cheese · Two-step stovetop mac with real cheese and none of the packet sodium.
• 🥄 Frozen yogurt melts · The pouch-aisle snack, made from one ingredient in ten minutes of freezer time.
• 🫛 Green bean and potato mash · A mild, soft-cooked green veg starter.
• 🐘 Homemade animal crackers · Lower-sugar animal crackers you control. You decide how sweet.
• 🫘 Hummus on toast · Sesame intro, zero effort.
• 🫓 Hummus with soft veggies · Dip-and-scoop for curious eaters.
• 🍅 Jollof-inspired chicken and rice · A mild, unsalted nod to West African jollof.
• 🎃 Lentil and pumpkin mash · Soft, iron-supporting first protein.
• 🍲 Lentil and vegetable stew · A soft, hearty spoonable stew.
• 🍚 Lentil, spinach and rice · A soft, iron-rich savory bowl with greens folded in.
• 🧆 Little meatballs · Tender beef meatballs sized and softened for small mouths.
• 🥭 Mango and oat puree · Tropical sweetness in soft oats.
• 🥭 Mango banana puree · A no-cook tropical first food, naturally sweet.
• 🥭 Mango yogurt · A no-cook tropical snack, cool and creamy.
• 🌶️ Mild beef and bean chili · A soft, iron-rich chili with no heat and no salt.
• 🥥 Mild chickpea and coconut curry · A soft, mild global curry, no chili and no salt.
• 🍎 No-sugar applesauce · Two apples and a pot. Store-bought sweetness without the added sugar.
• 🥞 Oat and banana pancakes · Three ingredients, no syrup needed, soft enough for a first pancake.
• 🥣 Oatmeal and pear puree · Iron-fortified oats with soft pear. An easy breakfast.
• 🍗 Oven chicken nuggets · Soft-inside baked nuggets with a coating you control.
• 🍎 Parsnip and apple puree · Naturally sweet root veg with apple.
• 🍝 Pasta with tomato and cheese · Soft pasta in a simple tomato sauce.
• 🫛 Pea and pear puree · A gentle green-and-sweet first puree.
• 🟢 Pea and potato puree · A mild green first veg, smoothed out with soft potato.
• 🍜 Peanut noodle bowl · Soft noodles in a mild peanut sauce, a tasty way to keep peanut in.
• 🥜 Peanut-butter oatmeal · An easy way to introduce peanut.
• 🍐 Pear & spinach puree · Sneak in some greens.
• 🍐 Pear oat porridge · Warm oats with soft grated pear.
• 🍌 Plantain and black bean mash · A soft Caribbean-inspired bowl, sweet plus savory.
• 🥣 Prune and oat porridge · A gentle, fiber-rich breakfast that helps things move.
• 🎃 Pumpkin and apple puree · Soft, sweet, and full of that autumn-orange goodness.
• 🎃 Pumpkin and pear puree · Silky pumpkin softened with sweet pear.
• 🌾 Quinoa and veggie mash · Soft quinoa with sweet veg.
• 🍚 Rice and beans · A soft, humble Caribbean staple, unsalted and iron-rich.
• 🍐 Ricotta and pear toast fingers · Soft, creamy toast fingers.
• 🐟 Salmon & sweet potato mash · Omega-3s meet a baby favorite.
• 🐟 Salmon and pea mash · Omega-rich salmon softened with peas.
• 🥔 Salmon and potato patties · Soft fish cakes for little hands, no frying needed.
• 🐟 Salmon and rice bowl · Flaked salmon over soft rice and peas.
• 🐟 Salmon and sweet potato mash · Omega-3s and iron in a soft, easy-to-gum mash.
• 🍳 Scrambled egg and cheese toast · A soft, savory breakfast plate.
• 🥚 Scrambled egg fingers · Soft, grabbable, great for egg intro.
• 🍅 Scrambled egg with tomato · A soft, savory egg dish, gently inspired by shakshuka.
• 🦐 Shrimp and rice bowl · Introduces shellfish in a soft bowl.
• 🍛 Simple dal and rice · A soft, iron-rich South Asian staple, mild and unsalted.
• 🥩 Soft beef and veggie meatballs · Tender meatballs for little hands.
• 🍳 Soft egg and avocado toast fingers · Self-feeding practice with two great early proteins.
• 🍳 Soft egg fried rice · A gentle, no-salt take on fried rice.
• 🍟 Soft oven fries · Oven fries cooked soft on purpose, because crisp is a grown-up texture.
• 🍝 Soft turkey meatballs with pasta · A toddler-friendly dinner, soft enough to squish.
• 🍳 Spinach and egg omelet fingers · Soft egg strips with greens, made for little hands.
• 🥬 Spinach and lentil mash · Iron-supporting greens and lentils.
• 🥬 Spinach and potato puree · Iron-supporting greens made smooth.
• 🍠 Sweet potato and apple puree · Naturally sweet, gentle on new tummies, and freezes well.
• 🍠 Sweet potato and lentil mash · Soft, sweet, and iron-rich. A hearty savory bowl.
• 🍠 Sweet potato and pea mash · Creamy sweet potato with soft peas.
• 🍠 Sweet potato puree · Naturally sweet and silky.
• 🧈 Tofu & veggie mash · Gentle plant protein plus greens.
• 🥑 Tofu and avocado mash · A no-cook plant-protein mash, silky and mild.
• 🍚 Tofu and broccoli rice bowl · A quick, low-salt plant protein dinner they can self-feed.
• 🥕 Tofu and carrot mash · Soft first soy with sweet carrot.
• 🍠 Tofu and sweet potato mash · Creamy plant protein and sweet potato.
• 🍚 Tofu and veggie rice bowl · Golden tofu over soft rice and carrot.
• 🦃 Turkey and veggie rice · A soft, balanced toddler bowl.
• 🍳 Veggie egg scramble · Soft egg with hidden greens.
• 🫐 Yogurt & blueberry · Creamy, cool, quick.
• 🫐 Yogurt and berry swirl · Cool yogurt with smashed berries.
• 🫐 Yogurt with smashed blueberries · A no-cook snack with dairy and soft fruit.
• 🥭 Yogurt, mango and oats · Creamy, cool, and filling.
• 🧀 Zucchini and cheese frittata · A baked egg square with veg, great warm or cold.
• 🥒 Zucchini and potato mash · Mild and smooth, a soft first veg mash.

Last updated September 2026. Next review December 2026. How we write these: built from current published guidance from the AAP, CDC, FDA/EPA, NIAID, WHO, and other pediatric and public-health authorities, with sources cited on the page. See our editorial and medical policy for how we research, source, and update these, and how we double-check the food advice.

This is general information, not medical advice, and is not individualized for your baby. Always talk to your pediatrician about your baby's diet, introducing allergens, and any reaction. In an emergency, contact emergency services.

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