Prune Puree Baby Food (Easy First Food)

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This simple recipe for homemade prune baby food puree will quickly become one of your baby’s favorites. Full of healthy antioxidants and dietary fiber, prune puree helps keep baby regular!

Ah, prunes. Prunes get such a bad rap – but they’re actually quite delicious! They’re basically just dried plums – and they look like massive raisins.

When I started solid foods for my kids, around 5-6 months of age, I gave them small amounts of this prune baby food to help keep them regular. You can make just plain prune puree, but I found that with the addition of Fuji Apples, this quickly becomes a favorite puree recipe for most babies!

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This is a super easy to make puree – and you can mix it into oatmeal, yogurt, with other veggies, etc.

Prunes are the number one source of antioxidants for babies and they also help keep things moving along, so if your baby is prone to constipation, a couple cubes of this a day incorporated into your baby’s diet should help keep them regular!

👩🏽‍🍳 Why This Recipe Works

• Simple homemade baby food recipe
• Healthier than store bought baby food pouches
• No artificial colors or flavors
• Made with organic ingredients
• Easy to store in the refrigerator or freezer
• Sweet with no added sugar
• Babies love it! The addition of apples helps to balance the flavor of the prunes
• Best home remedy for baby constipation
• A natural way to keep baby regular (works for the whole family for regularity too!)
• Full of antioxidants
• Best prune puree recipe ever!

🥘 Ingredients

This baby food prune puree blend uses simple ingredients easily found at your local grocery store!

• Organic Prunes: I recommend using dried prunes with no sugar added (you should only see one ingredient on the package – prunes!), but if you have fresh prunes you can use those too. A prune is just a dried plum, so all of the health benefits of plums apply to prunes too!
• Organic Fuji Apples: You don’t have to include apples in this puree, but I found that it mellows out the flavor and makes it a lot more palatable for your baby. When buying apples, especially for your baby, it is important to get organic. Apples are one of the fruits on the EWG’s Dirty Dozen list of high pesticide fruits and vegetables. Fuji apples are a great choice for this puree. They have a pinkish flesh, white center, and sweet flavor. It pairs nicely with the prunes.
• Water: The added water helps to soften and cook the prunes and apples, and gives this apple prune puree for baby a smooth consistency that baby can easily eat.

📖 Variations

• Mash Or Lightly Blend Into Chunks: If your baby is older, instead of pureeing the prunes, you can mash them or blend until chunky. They can then feed themselves the chunks, and mash with their gums.
• Mix With Breast Milk Or Formula: Before you serve to your baby, stir in some breast milk or formula for added calories and nutrition. Do not add breast milk or formula before freezing or storing in the fridge (as it will spoil) — add it right before serving. If you choose formula, I recommend using one of these best organic baby formulas for the cleanest ingredients, and a close formulation to breastmilk.
• Prune Baby Food Combinations: You can mix baby prunes with all kinds of other fruit blends! Some of our favorites include: A different type of apple puree, or try adding pureed banana, peaches, nectarines, or pear. You can also make this a single-variety fruit puree and just use prunes and water!
• Add New Flavors: If your baby is ready for more flavor, add a pinch of different spices. Try cinnamon, cardamom, pumpkin pie spice, or nutmeg!

🔪 How To Make Prune Puree

Making prunes for baby is actually super easy! Here’s how you do it:

Prep Your Fruits, Add To The Pot: Wash the apples. Cut in half and remove seeds and stems. Cut each half into 4-6 pieces. Remove pits from prunes (or – timesaver: get pitted prunes!). Put apples, prunes, and water into a large pot. Cover with a lid and turn the burner on high.

Cook Until Soft: Cook for 8 minutes until tender, stirring occasionally.

Add To Blender And Puree: Pour everything into a blender, puree prunes and apples (if using) until smooth. For babies 4-8 months, a totally smooth puree is the ideal texture you’re looking for. Once your baby gets older (9-12 months) you can make a chunkier puree.

Store And/Or Serve! Pour the smooth puree into ice cube trays and allow it to cool. Cover/wrap, and freeze.

Note: Thaw this prune baby puree in the fridge the night before use, or thaw by putting the ice cube in a bowl over a bowl of hot water on the counter to defrost.

❓Recipe FAQs

💭 Expert Tips

• Make a large batch – To save on prep time for your baby’s meals on a daily basis, I recommend using baby food freezer containers or ice cube trays to store these healthy prunes for baby. That way you can make one large batch that will last you and your baby for several months!
• For a smooth consistency – Use a good blender, or food processor to easily blend the fruit puree.
• Use pitted prunes to save yourself time from removing the pits yourself.
• Keep skins on – If you remove the apple skin you will lose some of the fiber and nutrients, so keep the skins on! They will blend easily once cooked down.
• For a store bought recommendation – If you run out of this puree, and have to buy store bought, there are two brands that I recommend: Plum Organics Stage 1 Prunes, and Happy Baby Prune Puree.

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