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Starting Solids

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Puree - Vegetables & Fruit

A pumpkin recipe card from 'Starting Solids with Julia Scott,' with instructions to peel, chop, steam, blend, and freeze pumpkin in ice trays. Background shows roasted pumpkin pieces with decorative vegetables around the edges.
A pile of kumara, or sweet potatoes, with a recipe overlay for kumara, including ingredients and preparation steps.
Recipe card for beans with a background of chopped green beans and carrots, featuring instructions for cooking frozen beans.
Recipe card for cooking peas with a background of fresh green peas and illustrated vegetables at the bottom.
Recipe card for spinach frozen spinach balls with background of fresh spinach leaves, featuring cartoon vegetables at bottom
Colorful assortment of bell peppers, including red, yellow, green, and orange, with a recipe card for making frozen capiscum slices overlaying the image.
Recipe card for Brussels Sprouts from Starting Solids with Julia Scott, featuring an ingredient list and method, over a background of Brussels sprouts and vegetables.
A cooking recipe for asparagus with steps listed on a semi-transparent overlay, background shows fresh green asparagus spears with decorative vegetable illustrations.
Recipe for parsnip smoothies with a background of whole parsnips and other root vegetables, featuring an orange carrot, a purple eggplant, and red and green tomatoes at the bottom.
A recipe for zucchini, also called courgette, with sliced zucchini and whole zucchini in the background. The recipe is titled 'Starting Solids with Julia Scott' and provides instructions for preparing zucchini.
A digital recipe card for making carrots, featuring a background of fresh carrots and culinary illustrations of utensils and vegetables, with instructions and ingredients listed for preparing carrots.
Recipe for cauliflower from Starting Solids with Julia Scott, featuring a background of cauliflower and vegetables. The recipe includes ingredients and steps for preparing cauliflower.
Recipe for steaming broccoli, with a background image of fresh broccoli and vegetables.
A recipe for mashed avocado with ingredients and method, featuring a background of whole and sliced avocados on a dark surface, with colorful vegetable illustrations at the bottom.
Recipe card with a background of red apples, titled 'Starting Solids with Julia Scott,' featuring an apple recipe and instructions.
A digital recipe card with ingredients and instructions for making pear solids, featuring a background of green and red pears, and illustrated vegetables at the bottom.
Background of ripe bananas with text overlay for a recipe titled Starting Solids with Julia Scott, featuring a banana recipe with ingredients and method.
Close-up of green feijoa fruits, some cut open showing their seeds, with a transparent overlay containing a recipe for making feijoa puree.
A recipe card for kiwi fruit with a background of sliced kiwis, decorated with illustrated vegetables such as carrots, tomatoes, and eggplants, featuring a scalloped white overlay with the recipe title and instructions.
Recipe card for mango sorbet with ingredients and method, featuring a background of frozen mango pieces and cartoon vegetables at the bottom.
Recipe card for frozen berries with a background of assorted frozen berries including blackberries, raspberries, and strawberries.

Puree - Meat & Meat Alternatives

Colorful assortment of dried beans surrounding a recipe for legume-based vegetable starters with Julia Scott, with instructions on ingredients and method.
Recipe card for tofu from 'Starting Solids with Julia Scott' featuring chopped tofu on a wooden surface with decorative vegetables. Includes ingredients and steps for preparation.
Recipe card for scrambled eggs with step-by-step instructions and ingredients, featuring a yellow background with illustrations of vegetables like carrots, tomatoes, and eggplant.
Recipe card for sardines with a background of canned sardines and illustrated vegetables at the bottom.
A recipe card for salmon mousse with ingredients and method over a background featuring a container of salmon.
A recipe card for liver from the Starting Solids series with Julia Scott, featuring a background of raw liver and illustrated vegetables like carrots, tomatoes, and eggplants.
A recipe card for starting solids with Julia Scott featuring fish. It includes ingredients and method: boneless white fish fillets, removing bones, pan-frying, blending with cooking water, and freezing in ice trays. The background has faint images of
Recipe card for chicken mince with ingredients and method, with a background of food and colorful vegetables at the bottom.
A bowl of ground lamb with a recipe overlay for making lamb ice; text includes ingredients and instructions for starting solids with Julia Scott.
Recipe card overlay on background of ground beef and minced meat, titled 'Starting Solids with Julia Scott' for beef, listing ingredients and method.
Recipe card for starting solids with Julia Scott, titled 'CHICKEN'. Instructions include chopping and roasting a chicken breast, blending with water, and freezing in ice trays. Background shows chicken breast pieces.

Puree - Mixed meals

A recipe card for making blueberry quinoa from Julia Scott with ingredients listed and cooking instructions. The background features images of blueberries, carrots, tomatoes, and other vegetables.
Recipe card titled "Starting Solids with Julia Scott" featuring a background image of blended green vegetables and a foreground overlay with apple and avocado ingredients and instructions for preparing apple and avocado puree.
Recipe for fruit and yogurt with ingredients and method, decorated with illustrations of carrots, tomatoes, and other produce.
Recipe card for Lentils and Veggies from Starting Solids with Julia Scott, with ingredients like lentils, frozen beans, pumpkin, garlic, and coriander, and instructions to cook and blend, displayed over a background of a bowl of lentil stew with vege
A recipe card for Dhal featuring ingredients like water, chopped carrot, zucchini, pumpkin, and red lentils, with cooking instructions. The background shows a close-up of a cooked vegetable dish with orange, green, and yellow colors.
Recipe card for Chickpea Curry with ingredients and method, titled 'Starting Solids with Julia Scott', featuring a background of vegetables like carrots, tomatoes, and yellow squash.
Recipe for Tofu and Veggies with ingredients including tofu, zucchini, pumpkin, and cilantro, and cooking instructions.
Recipe card for salmon and kumara from Starting Solids with Julia Scott, featuring ingredients like kumara, carrot, and salmon, with preparation steps.
Recipe card for Salmon and Carrot Starting Solids dish with ingredients and method, featuring a background of mashed carrots.
A recipe card for Tuna & Broccoli from 'Starting Solids' with Julia Scott. The card lists ingredients: broccoli florets, drained tinned tuna, and water, with instructions to blend and freeze. The background shows a bowl of mashed avocado and other ve
Recipe card for fish and kumara from Starting Solids with Julia Scott, including ingredients and method.
Recipe for fish pie with ingredients including a large potato, water, white fish fillets, and baby spinach leaves, with cooking instructions.
Cooking recipe overlay with mashed potatoes, carrots, and tomatoes. Title: Starting Solids with Julia Scott, Recipe: Lamb Roast, Ingredients and Method.
Recipe card titled 'Starting Solids' with a subtitle 'with Julia Scott' and a photo of cottage pie in the background. The recipe ingredients include diced rump steak, diced small kumara, chopped large carrot, and water. Instructions involve boiling i
Recipe card titled "Starting Solids with Julia Scott" featuring a background image of mashed potatoes. The recipe is for coconut chicken, with ingredients including cooked chicken, chopped and steamed kumara, chopped and steamed carrot, or frozen bea
Recipe card titled 'Starting Solids with Julia Scott' featuring a chicken and veggie soup with ingredients listed as chicken breast, zucchini, carrot, and water, with instructions to boil, blend, and freeze. The background shows a portion of the soup

Textured Meals - Breakfast

Recipe card titled "Starting Solids with Julia Scott: Chia Seed Pudding" listing ingredients and method for making chia seed pudding, including chia seeds, coconut milk, rinsed quinoa, apricots, banana, and instructions to cook and blend ingredients
Recipe card for Apricot Quinoa Porridge with ingredients and cooking instructions on a beige background with colorful illustrations of vegetables and a carrot.
Recipe card for Nut Quinoa Porridge with ingredients listed and cooking instructions, decorated with illustrations of carrots, tomatoes, and blueberries.
Recipe card for quinoa flakes porridge with ingredients listed including quinoa flakes, LSA, chia seeds, dried fruit, banana, and coconut or milk, with preparation instructions.
Recipe card for Bircher Muesli from Starting Solids with Julia Scott, listing ingredients and method, with colorful illustrations of vegetables and fruits around the edges.
Recipe for oat porridge with ingredients and method listed on a background of oatmeal and vegetables.
Recipe card for Raspberry Chia Jam from Starting Solids with Julia Scott, featuring ingredients and instructions on a white background with illustrated vegetables and berries along the bottom edge.
Chia berry breakfast recipe card with ingredients and instructions, decorated with colorful illustrations of vegetables and a carrot icon at the top.

Textured Meals - Lunch & Dinner

Recipe card for Lentil Bolognese from Starting Solids with Julia Scott, showing ingredients like carrots, onion, garlic, spinach, tomato puree, herbs, tomatoes, lentils, with cooking instructions listed.
A recipe card for Baby Nachos with ingredients and cooking instructions, overlaid on a bowl of nachos with toppings, decorated with colorful vegetables.
Recipe card for Red Lentil & Veggie Mash with ingredients and cooking steps, featuring a background of mashed vegetables and grains.
A digital recipe card for quinoa and pumpkin mash from Starting Solids with Julia Scott, featuring ingredient list and preparation steps. Background includes images of mashed pumpkin and vegetables.
Recipe card for chickpea mash with ingredients and instructions, featuring illustrations of carrots, cauliflower, tomatoes, and eggplant.
Recipe for risoni and vegetables with ingredients and cooking instructions, featuring chopped capsicum, courgette, canned tomatoes, risoni, and vegetable illustrations.
A recipe card for veggie and cheese starting solids, with a background of mixed cooked vegetables and cheese. The recipe includes cooked vegetables and grated cheese, with instructions to mash vegetables and top with cheese.

Soft Food

Recipe card for Cheesy Broccoli Pasta showing ingredients: pulse pasta, broccoli florets, grated cheese, and cream cheese, with cooking instructions.
Cookbook recipe card for starting solids with Julia Scott, featuring a tomato, tofu pasta dish, listing ingredients such as carrot, capsicum, broccoli, pumpkin, onion, garlic, basil, and instructions for cooking and blending.
Overlay of a recipe for Pulse Pasta by Julia Scott on a background of cooked pasta with vegetables, including chopped vegetables and pasta. The recipe lists ingredients such as assorted vegetables, garlic, herbs, tomatoes, and pulse pasta, with cooki
Recipe card for Mexican Quinoa with ingredients and instructions, overlayed on a colorful background of mixed vegetables and grains.

Finger Foods

A white bowl with almond banana pancakes topped with sliced bananas, and a printed recipe card overlay. The recipe includes ingredients and cooking instructions for almond banana pancakes.
A baking tray with freshly baked corn and pea muffins, set against a background of unbaked muffin batter, overlaid with a recipe for corn and pea muffins.
A recipe card for cheesy meatballs overlaid on a background of cooked meatballs and vegetables. The recipe lists ingredients such as carrots, onion, parsley, breadcrumbs, mince, egg, milk, and cheese, with preparation steps included.
A plate of Bliss Balls with a recipe overlay. The recipe lists ingredients including dates, oats, LSA, chia seeds, coconut oil, peanut butter, and cinnamon, with instructions for soaking dates, blending oats and ingredients, and forming balls.
Recipe card for banana and blueberry muffins with a background of muffins topped with blueberries and bananas, and decorated with illustrations of vegetables and fruits at the bottom.
A recipe for chicken sausages with ingredients and method over a background of baked chicken sausages garnished with herbs and vegetables.
A recipe for chicken meatballs overlaid on an image of baked chicken meatballs garnished with herbs, surrounded by various vegetables like tomatoes, carrots, and eggplant.
A recipe card for frozen banana bites over a background of frozen banana slices topped with yogurt, peanut butter, and hemp seeds.
A recipe card for tofu veggie patties with ingredients and method, overlaid on a photo of cooked veggie patties and a bowl of noodles, decorated with illustrated vegetables around the border.
Recipe card for tofu veggie patties with ingredients and method, overlying a blurred background of cooked vegetable patties and fresh vegetables such as carrots, tomatoes, and eggplant.
A recipe card for tofu veggie patties with ingredients and cooking instructions displayed over a background of cooked tofu patties and vegetables.