My youngest daughter turned 6 months this week so we decided we'd start her on solids and this is the first recipe we chose.
I was and still might introduce a bit of baby led weaning too but will start with the purees for the first few weeks.
I didn't like the idea of giving a packaged food first as we did with our first (rice cereal). I understand it's for the iron but I don't think it's that important, after doing some reading on the topic. So I'm glad Louise has brought out this book.
My daughter loved this as a first food. Ate about 2 heaped tablespoons no problems and was very keen. I like how Louise suggests sweet potato as it is naturally sweet. I remember my first daughter wasn't too keen on veges when we first introduced solids but preferred sweeter things like fruit purees. So it makes sense to introduce a vegetable that is naturally sweet! It's great that it has a bit of butter too as I have learnt that babies don't like plain things but prefer food with flavour. The texture and taste were perfect as can be seen in the photo below:
I froze the leftovers, which were about 1 ice cube trays worth.
