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Did you know that babies can eat avocado? When my kids were babies, I made their baby food, and some of their favorites included avocado. The awesome thing about avocado in baby food is that it doesn’t have to be cooked. That made it so easy to throw into various recipes. And because babies need a fair amount of fat in their diet, for brain development, I loved that they could get good fat from avocados.
We frequently used Avocados from Mexico in our recipes, and I was thinking about the avocado baby food recipe’s I’d used and sent a friend some virtual avocado slices to ask if she had tried them with her son yet…
I thought I would share a couple of the avocado baby food recipes that we used, and my kids loved.
Banana- Avocado Mash
Cut an avocado in half, remove the pit, and cut the meat out. Mash the meat with a fork, then mash a banana and add to the avocado mash.
You can use a blender, or food processor, to puree to desired consistency, but my little ones just loved it if I put it in one of those mesh baby food strainers for them to eat from.
Baby Guac
Cut an avocado in half, remove the pit, and cut the meat out. Mash the meat with a fork, set aside.
Place a 1/4 cup Cheerios in a zipper bag, and crush them. Add plain yogurt and crushed cheerios to the avocado mash, until desired consistency. You can add spices (i.e. garlic) to season, but my kids liked it without the spices.
Sweet Potato-cado Mash
1 small sweet potato (can substitute butternut squash puree if desired)
1 avocado, peeled
Bake the sweet potato in its skin until tender (30-45 minutes, depending on size and oven temp).
Cool, then remove the flesh from the skin and mash with the avocado.
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I thought I’d add… from my facebook post…. Andy’s now telling me he’s afraid to intro Jett to avocados so little because he’s allergic to them. I told him that I’m pretty sure that he’s just an odd ball, and Jett will love them!!!
I can’t say I blame Andy! I’d be nervous to introduce a food to my kids that I am allergic to!
YUM YUM, I love it!
My baby just started solids and I had not heard about feeding them avocado’s until recently. These recipes look great.
My kids love avocados!!
Great recipes. My kids are too old for them, but I have a recipe that the sweet-potato one might be good in.
I wish I would have introduced my children to avocado earlier. Never thought about using it as baby food!
I like the combinations you thought of. I’ve never used avocados beyond guac!
I fed my kids mashed avocados! I thought it was really a no brainer :-)
the combos sound good. I start foods like this later in age just to avoid allergies though
Consider this page bookmarked, as my nephew will arrive in June and my sister will totally want to make these in her Baby Brezza around the holiday time. We LOVE avocados!
Very interesting combo!
My son loved Banana and avacados together. Yummy!
What a great idea to introduce. the texture is already that which can be smushed for a baby.
I love avocados, but I never really thought about giving them to my son when he was a baby.
I love them too! I don’t think I used them when the kids were babies thiugh.
It’s so healthy
I like to try to introduce new foods. Good ideas!
My son loves avocados on toast.
I’d never thought to make avocado baby food, what a fantastic idea!
Great ideas! I love avocados.
I love avocados & my son does too- I like to think it’s because I gave him some when he was a baby too :) Great recipes- I like the idea of mixing it with Sweet Potato- I’ve never thought of that!
I love avocados, but my son does not. However, I didn’t like them when I was a kid either.
I absolutely love avocados and hoping my little one does too!!
I lurv avocados!
This is something is really something new to me.. I never knew that avocado is god for the babies.. I will definitely shared to my pregnant sister.. Thanks for the recipes!