Of course, Christmas with a baby in the house is particularly lovely. You naturally want to include your little one in the celebrations alongside the rest of the family. But Christmas cooking can be stressful enough without needing to plan the baby’s menu. To help at this busy time I’ve put together a few Christmas weaning suggestions. You can concentrate on the food for the rest of the family secure in the knowledge you have some tasty, organic treats in store for baby.

Christmas Weaning Meals

When it comes to the traditional meals such as turkey and all the trimmings there’s no reason for your baby or toddler to miss out. Or to compromise on the quality of food you want to give your little one.

Take a look at our seasonal meat offerings:

• Organic Finest Organic Turkey
• Organic Finest Beef
• Organic Pumpkin and Chicken

We also have a fine selection of seasonal meals for vegetarian babies:

• Organic Pumpkin and Rice
• Organic Broccoli and Wholegrain Rice
• Organic Zucchini and Pumkin with Potatoes

And course, don’t forget the trimmings:

• Organic Carrots
• Organic Parsnips
• Organic Mixed Vegetables

While we won’t be feeding our babies the Christmas pudding just yet, we do have some fantastic fruit purees that will slip down a treat:

• Organic Pure Pear
• Organic Pure Apple

Of course, as with all the Holle baby food ranges you have peace of mind that you are feeding your baby only the best:

• Certified organic or even biodynamic -no pesticides or other chemical nasties;
• Gluten free -ideal for first weaning meals;
• Free from sugar, salt, colourings and preservatives -these have no place in baby food;
• Prepared using gentle cooking methods -to keep the most goodness for your baby.

I hope all Ulula customers and site visitors have a wonderful Christmas and are able to take some time to relax with their families and friends. Very best of the new seasons greetings.

Sabine

PS. A treat for mums and dads too
Just to help me get in the Christmas spirit while writing this email I’ve been nibbling on a few of our Organic Vanilla Spelt Crescents. Believe me when I say they are absolutely gorgeous. They were our bestselling biscuits for adults last year and I can see why. Pop a packet or two in your basket and you won’t regret it. After all, Christmas isn’t just for children!

As we mentioned in a previous article towards the end of April, the  certified biodynamic chicken in the popular Holle Organic Pumpkin and Chicken jars is currently almost impossible to source on the continent and we are currently out of stock.

Unfortunately, our remaining stock of our Organic Meat Baby Weaning Lunches (3x Organic Pumpkin and Chicken and 3 x Potatoes, Corn and Beef) is now also depleted. We apologise to all those mums and dads who have contacted us asking for their baby’s favourite meat weaning recipes – Holle are not currently able to give us a delivery date as they are not yet able to source the chicken to the high quality that they demand for their baby foods. We will keep you posted as we hear news.

In the meantime, as you will see from yesterday’s blog post, Holle have released their Finest Organic Beef baby jars. These particular baby jars have a very high meat content and are intended to be used as an accompaniment to a vegetable or grain based meal, not as a meal in itself. You only need to use half a jar at a time, making them excellent value for money.

Holle have today told me that they intend to release a similarly high meat content turkey jar as an additional meat accompaniment, for those parents wanting to introduce high quality organic meat into their baby’s weaning diet. As always, we will keep you posted.

What organic baby weaning recipes would you like to see Holle include in their jarred range? Let us know and we’ll pass it on.

Holle Organic Finest Beef

Holle organic beef meat baby jar

The Holle Organic Finest Beef baby jars are not intended to be a complete meal in itself, but rather are to be used as a meat accompaniment to your homemade baby weaning recipes or to mix into a jar of one of Holle’s great pureed vegetable baby jars and/or one of their organic baby porridges. Please only use half a jar for a single meal – you can safely store the other half for the next day in the fridge (below 5°) – making these meat jars excellent value for money.

The organic beef used in these jars is of premium Swiss origin and is from cows that have been raised in pastures that have been organically cultivated for decades. Holle has close relationships with its farmers and will only work with those whose high quality standards meet their demanding expectations and that rear their animals in the most humane and natural way.

Holle Pumpkin With Rice

These lovely jars were firm favourites with our testers whose babies loved the mild pumpkin flavour of this recipe – one mum even placed an order for three cases before her daughter had finshed the meal!

The Holle Organic Pumpkin and Rice is ideal if, as can sometimes happen, your baby has developed a tendency to constipation after introducing root vegetables like carrots – switching to pumpkin as a weaning vegetable for your baby is usually then recommended.

Have leftover fruit purees from weaning your baby? Blend fruit purees with yoghurt (or coconut milk), water (or juice) and ice to make smoothies for the rest of the family.

We’ve tried this using purees made with the Ulula glass grater as well as some of the Holle organic fruit baby jars and they are lovely. Perfect for this warm weather. Enjoy!

I am always curious as to just how much of what we send out goes on to be recycled once finished with. For example, do customers recycle the packaging that our baby foods come in? I recently came across the amazing picture below showing just how inventive people can be when it comes to recycling baby food jars. Yes, it really is a chandelier made with baby food jars! Apparently it is practically all made from recycled materials and cost just a few pounds to make.

Baby food jar chandelier

Of course not everyone, myself  included, is creative enough or has the skills, materials or even inclination to make a chandelier from baby food jars!

I have, though, come across some other, more down to earth, suggestions. How about using the baby food jars as containers for dried herbs in the kitchen? Or as paint pots for older children?

Do you just put your empty organic baby food jars in the recycle bin, or are you a little more creative with them? Share your thoughts and ideas.

PS. If any reader is really curious how to make a baby food jar chandelier, get in touch and I’ll let you have the instructions.

As a result, the Holle Organic Pumpkin and Chicken jars are (in extremely short supply) no longer available. We do still have a few of our Organic Meat Baby Weaning Lunches (3x Organic Pumpkin and Chicken and 3 x Potatoes, Corn and Beef) left but once they are gone we will sadly have to remove them from the store. For all your beef loving babies we do have a plentiful supply of the Holle Organic Potatoes, Corn and Beef.

Holle sources tell us that they are working closely with the biodynamic farmers from whom they source their chickens and will let us know as soon as the Organic Pumpkin and Chicken baby jars production restarts.

Holle's new organic pure apple - perfect by itself or stirred into baby porridge

We are pleased to let you know that we now stock Holle’s latest additions to their comprehensive range of jarred organic baby food. They are:

• Organic Carrots and Potatoes
• Organic Peach and Apple
• Organic Apple and Pear
• Pure Organic Apple
• Pure Organic Pear

In the interests of keeping our customers informed, the Ulula team as well as our family and friends always taste test any new products that we stock and these new baby jars were no exception.  As usual the finely pureed texture is just right for even newly weaning babies, and ensures the baby food is easily digestible.

All the jars taste superb – this is due not only to the fact that the raw fruits and vegetables used in  the jars were organically, if not biodynamically grown, but also to the very gentle cooking methods that Holle uniquely use in making all their organic baby foods.

See our complete range of organic baby food in jars.

We think these new baby jars are a lovely addition to our baby food range – give them a try and let us know what you think.