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Tips and recipes that will help you cook for your entire family, including babies and toddlers.
Electrolyte Replacement Drink - Pedialyte Clone
When your child is sick, your health care provider may recommend an electrolyte replacement drink like Pedialyte or Gatorade. This alternative recipe can be made at home for less money and with ingredients you control — so no dyes if you don't want them.
Peanut Butter Trivia Quiz
Celebrate National Peanut Butter Lover's Month by testing your knowledge of peanut and peanut butter trivia.
Drinkable Yogurt
Many parents love to give the new drinkable yogurt snacks (like Yop, Danimals and YoBaby) to their babies and toddlers. They have lots of protein and are thin enough to work in most sippy cups. They can be a bit pricey, however, so here's a recipe you can use to make your own at home for a fraction of the cost.
How To Make Baby Food at Home
By making your own food at home, you can save money and you'll always know exactly what is going into your baby's body. Foods prepared at home will last in your freezer about one month.
Baby Food Recipes
Find recipes appropriate for infants and toddlers. Includes basic purees, finger foods, single and double ingredient recipes and other ideas to help add variety to your child's meals.
How to Make Egg Toast
This is an easy toddler breakfast for those mornings when you're in a hurry. In step one, you'll need to make toast.
How to Make Graham Crackers
Babies and toddlers love graham crackers. Here's a simple recipe that is sure to be a hit with your family.
How To Make Zwieback Toast
This recipe is sure to please babies and toddlers who are teething or just starting out on finger foods.
Get out of a Dinnertime Rut
Members of the Parenting Babies and Toddlers forum contribute ideas and recipes to help parents with infants and toddlers freshen up their dinnertime meal rotation.
Make Your Own Peanut Butter
With just three ingredients, you can make your own natural peanut butter at home.
Graham Peanut Butter Sandwiches
These make a great healthy snack or treat and it's so easy to make a big batch.
Peanut Butter Rice Crisp Bars
These are a new take on an old treat.
Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
These cookies combine the great tastes of oatmeal and peanut butter to make a tasty afternoon snack.
Three Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
These cookies are easy to make, especially with kids. There's just three ingredients and one measuring cup to worry about.
Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies
These peanut butter and jelly cookies are as fun to make as they are to eat. Kids love filling the scooped out middles.
Classic Peanut Butter Cookies
Here is a no-fail recipe for classic peanut butter cookies that any kid could love.
Peanut Butter Quesadillas
These quesadillas are delicious when served with jelly for dipping.
Peanut Butter and Jelly Wraps
These wraps make a quick and easy lunch or snack and are a new take on the traditional peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Grilled Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich
Is your child getting tired of grilled cheese? Use this recipe instead to shake things up a bit.
Stuffed Chicken Breasts
Here's a step by step guide to make stuffed chicken breasts with pictures for each step. It may sound difficult, but the recipe is very easy and it's a good one to surprise guests or make a special meal for your significant other.
One Pan Potatoes and Chicken Dijon
Recipe for one pan potatoes and chicken dijon. Just 20 minutes and dinner's ready.
Family Cornbread Stuffing Recipe
Forum member LEIGHANN123 shares her family's recipe for cornbread stuffing, just in time for the holidays.
Peanut Butter Frosting
This frosting goes great with pound cake, cookies and chocolate cupcakes.
Peanut Butter Ice Cream Topper
This sauce makes a great topping for ice cream and it's healthier than hot fudge.
No Bake Peanut Butter Pie
This pie is delicious and it's great for days when you don't want to fire up the oven.
Maple Frosting
This frosting makes a great topping to maple cupcakes or any cake. Use it to add a fall touch to your desserts.
Maple Cupcakes
These cupcakes are a sweet fall treat and use the natural flavor of maple syrup and extract.
Maple Rice Crisp Cookies
These cookies celebrate the fall flavor of maple and make a great treat as the days become cooler.
Peanut Butter Fudge
This fudge is great for folks who don't like chocolate or want to give their children a healthier alternative to traditional fudge.
Peanut Butter Balls
These peanut butter balls are fun to eat and fun to make.
Peanut Butter Cups Copycat Recipe
This recipe is a copycat recipe for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. They take some time to make, but it's well worth it.
Easy Strawberry Shortcake
A quick and easy recipe for strawberry shortcake that you can make with the kids.
Watermelon Ice Recipe
A recipe for watermelon ice. Perfect for hot summer days.
Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars
These bars have a lot of ingredients, but when you serve them to the kids with a big glass of ice cold milk, you'll know why it's worth the time.
Marshmallow Peanut Butter Squares
These squares mix the smoothness of peanut butter and marshmallows with the crunch of crisp rice cereal.
Hay Stacks
These treats make a great fall treat and they look like hay stacks. This recipe has been amended to remove the peanuts which are a frequent choking hazard for toddlers.
Peanut Butter Ice Cream
This ice cream is smooth and delicious and flavored with real peanut butter.
Peanut Butter Waffles
These waffles a toddler favorite and can be frozen for future breakfasts.
Peanut Butter Oatmeal
This oatmeal makes a great fall or winter breakfast and it starts the day off with a protein punch.
Peanut Butter Banana Muffins
These muffins make a great breakfast treat or work as a healthier alternative to cupcakes at kid's parties.
Peanut Butter Banana Bread
This banana bread has the protein power of peanut butter added. Serve with a little jelly for a great toddler breakfast.
Peanut Butter Pound Cake
This pound cake makes a great breakfast, dessert or snack.
Peanut Butter and Jelly French Toast
A lunch classic becomes a yummy breakfast that your little one will love.
Peanut Butter Pancakes
Delicious peanut butter pancakes that are a frequent favorite at our house. Make a batch and freeze a few for a quick snack later on.
Maple Butter
Maple butter makes a great topping for toast, waffles, pancakes, biscuits, french toast or any other bready breakfast food you or your children enjoy.
Matzoh Applesauce Pancakes
This delicious recipe for pancakes is easy to make and passover friendly.
Carrot - Banana Smoothie Recipe
Here is a recipe for a carrot - banana smoothie that is suitable for infants who are eating table food and older children.
Steamy Maple Cider
This cider is a sweet treat for little ones, and since maple syrup is the sweetener (instead of honey) even your youngest can savor a sip.
Peanut Butter Smoothie
This smoothie makes a healthy snack. Remember to blend until very smooth for toddlers and younger children to prevent choking.
Peanut Butter Floats
These peanut buttter floats make an excellent afternoon treat for kids.

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