The Daily Bootie Newsletter for New Parents

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How to Make Your Own Baby Food

How to make your own purees, plus easy recipe ideas.

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Whole-Grain Cranberry Orange Scones

These fruit- and whole grain-rich scones are fun to make with your toddler on lazy weekend mornings. Store leftovers in the freezer for weekdays!

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Sweet Ideas for Sweet Potatoes

Sweet potatoes are a delicious, nutritious first food for your little one. Use them in these tasty baby food recipes.

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4 Easy, Delicious Breakfasts

Stuck in a boring breakfast routine? These four simple, tot-friendly recipes will make mornings for you and your baby a little more fun.

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Mindful Meals

Quick, easy, toddler-friendly recipes that’ll boost your child’s brain development. Who’s hungry?

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Hello 2013, Goodbye Junk Food

Trying to lose the baby weight in 2013? Start the year off with a no junk food contract.

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Brainy Breakfast Guide

These three easy, brain-boosting meals make it easy to set up your little one for success each morning.

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Maple Syrup Salmon with Sesame Asparagus Orzo

Salmon has never been so kid-friendly thanks to a sumptuously sweet maple syrup glaze. If your child is reluctant to taste it, try telling her that eating it will give her a super brain!

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Pumpkin Pie Bread

Savor the flavors of fall with this warming pumpkin pie bread

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Pasta with Pesto and Green Beans

Need dinner–fast? This fresh summer pasta dish comes together quicker than it takes for the pizza delivery guy to get to your house.

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Baked Honey Mustard Chicken

Chicken’s loaded with lean protein, something active, growing kids need lots of. Up the flavor of boneless, skinless chicken breasts with this sweet and tangy sauce.

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Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins

These fruit-filled muffins are yummy and easy to make, and are perfect for a breakfast treat or a snack.

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Peanut Butter and Jelly Sushi

Thanks to a roster of unfamiliar ingredients, most kids tend to stick their noses up at traditional sushi. Made with simple peanut butter and jelly, these rolls will feel a little more at home on your little ones plate. Ingredients 2 slices sandwich bread 2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter or sunflower seed butter 2 tablespoons grape jelly Directions 1. Slice the [...]

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Sweet Potato Mac & Cheese

Can’t get enough mac and cheese? Try this healthier version, made with sweet potato and whole wheat noodles.

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Quick and Easy Hummus

Hummus is cheap, nutritious, and couldn’t be simpler to make. Whip some up today!

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Baby Food Made Simple: Tips on How to Get Started

With a little organization, some tools, and of course healthy food, you can create your own baby food in no time.

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Basil Lemon-Limeade

Try out this delicious pregnancy “mocktail.”

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Cowboy Supper

Satisfy your lil’ cowboy with this western meal.

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Very Veggie Pasta

This high-fiber pasta sauce can be used over pasta or meatloaf, or even as a pizza sauce.

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Pear Puree

Every parent should know how to make great baby food, from scratch!

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Roasted Sea Bass and Asparagus with Citrus-Fennel Salad

This breastfeeding-safe recipe is the perfect gourmet dinner for new moms.

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Caramelized Nectarines with Yogurt and Honey

Think your tot won’t like fruit for dessert? She will with this recipe!

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Yogurt Swirl

This 5-minute recipe is a fast & simple treat.

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Pork Tenderloin with Cranberry Sauce

Cranberries might be a fruit, but that doesn’t mean your family won’t love the red berry in savory dishes, like this pork tenderloin.

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Cinnamon-Maple Acorn Squash Canoes

These cute, sweet squash boats take only 15 minutes to make.

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Blueberry Granola Muffins

The perfect on-the-go breakfast for working moms-to-be.

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Very Berry Fruit Pops

Partner with your little one to make simple treats like these delicious, nutritious ice pops.

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Apple and Cheese Quesadillas

This easy, nutritious snack is perfect for you AND your toddler.

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Salmon Burgers

A great lunch idea from under the sea.

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Fruity Maple Oatmeal

Get your toddler excited about oatmeal with this sweet rendition, full of fun flavors like maple, cinnamon, and apricots.

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Creamy White Bean Dip With Toasted Triangles

Serve this protein- and fiber-rich chip-and-dip combo to quell late-afternoon tummy rumbles.

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Sweet and Sour Shrimp

Craving Chinese? This protein- and veggie-rich dish is ready faster than you can pick up takeout (and it’s healthier, too!).

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Baked Ricotta Apples

Instead of cookies or candy, get your little one hooked on healthy sweet treats.

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Nutty Yogurt Pops

Hello, cold treats! These yogurt-based snacks are more nutritious than popsicles. Leave out the nuts, and they make perfect teethers for babies.

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Confetti Potato Frittata

The really great thing about this quick-cooking frittata? It makes the perfect meal for tots and grown-ups morning, noon, or night.

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Meatloaf Mini-Muffins

These yummy mini-meatloaves have all the flavor of their full-sized counterpart–in a fun shape that’s just right for little eaters.

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PBJ & Apple Rollups and Five-Fruit Salad

What’s for lunch? A super-fast, nutrient packed wrap and fruit salad, that’s what!

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Cooking for You and Baby

Save time and money with recipes the both of you will love.

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Dinner: Chicken Couscous

This healthy grain cooks in minutes.

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Pasta with Veggie Purée

This healthy dish is perfect for older babies who still need soft food.

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On the Go Snack: Banana Chocolate Mini-Muffins

Who knew oats could taste this good?

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Homemade Baby Food: Pasta

An Italian mommy shares her favorite recipe.

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Finger Foods: No Yolk Pancakes

For babies 9-12 months and beyond. (You’ll enjoy them, too!)

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Homemade Baby Food: Avocado Puree

This no-cook recipe is perfect for babies 4-6 months.

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Cinnamon Toast Triangles with Apricot-Fig Butter

Treat your toddler to an iron-filled breakfast.

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Apple and Cheese Quesadilla

This easy, nutritious snack is perfect for you and your toddler.

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Ginger Mango Applesauce

This healthy comfort food is packed with fiber for your toddler.

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Toddler Quick Bite

Wagon Wheel Pasta with Spinach Pesto

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Wagon Wheels With Spinach Pesto

Beta carotene in spinach boosts vision and immunity.

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Beef Purée

A quick and easy recipe that’s perfect for beginning eaters.

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Red Beans & Rice With Sausage Bites

Shake things up at dinnertime with this just-right spiced, one-pot meal filled with veggies, fiber, protein, and iron.

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Sweet Four-Bean Salad

This traditional salad is packed with iron-rich ingredients, making it perfect for growing toddlers.

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Apple, Egg & Sausage Pockets

We wish our pockets were always this tasty.

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Sweet Pea Puree

Give peas a chance!

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Butternut Squash Mini-Muffins

These sweet n’ savory muffins are a treat for tiny hands.

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Smoked Trout Omelette

Tot-friendly fish recipes deliver essential vitamins and nutrients.

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Berry Smoothie

This snack is berry good.

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Very Berry Waffles with Yogurt Sauce

Who said waffles are just for breakfast?

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No-Yolk Pancakes

This egg-free recipe is perfect for kids (and adults!) with allergies.

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Anything-Goes Kabobs

Make this quick and easy recipe the whole family can enjoy.

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How to Make Baby Food: Butternut Squash Puree and Soup

Make the puree for baby and a soup for yourself!

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Jalapeno, Corn and Cheddar Quesadillas

When you’re pregnant, you never know when hunger pangs are gonna hit. Quesadillas to the rescue!

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Sweet Potato Pancakes

Pancakes that are chock-full of nutrition.

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