Homemade Kale Baby Food

These homemade kale baby food pouches are perfect for toddlers on the go! Filled with sweet potatoes and bananas, they’re always gone in a flash.

This post was created in partnership with Stonyfield. All opinions are our own. 

Now that we have a toddler on our hands (Larson!) and we’re on the go a lot (zoo, splash park, book tour!), Alex and I have realized a few things. First, convenience foods for toddlers are almost never vegetables. There are lots of granola bars and cereal and fruit, but not a lot of veggie options. Second, putting veggies into tasty purees are a sure way that Larson will love to eat them.

So, we’ve been using purchased baby food pouches with fruit or yogurt purees, which are perfect when you’re out on the go. But in true A Couple Cooks fashion, we wanted to figure out a way to make a homemade baby food pouch recipe for Larson’s everyday eats. It’s cheaper, you can control what’s in them, and it’s better for the environment with less packaging. Keep reading for our kale & sweet potato baby food recipe!

If you’re short on time–Stonyfield has yogurt pouches that are fantastic for on the go! Check out these flavors:

• Pear Spinach Mango 
• Strawberry Beet Berry
• Blueberry

What is baby food?

Ever since we had a baby (Larson!), people have been asking: Are you going to post baby food recipes on your website? When he first started eating solid food, it was extremely boring: oatmeal, banana, peanut butter swirled into organic YoBaby yogurt. People don’t need recipes for that! Then, he started eating what we eat: adult food. And that’s mainly what he eats today. He eats what we eat. So really, all of the recipes on A Couple Cooks are kid-friendly because our recipes are family-friendly: they’re intended for the whole family to eat them! EXCEPT for this kale & sweet potato baby food. (Actually, I would eat it because it’s so tasty…but I digress!).

How to make kale & sweet potato baby food

So, here’s our first baby food on A Couple Cooks: a homemade kale & sweet potato baby food recipe! And in honor of Father’s Day coming up, this recipe is themed around Larson and daddy. It was actually Alex who created this sweet potato baby food for his Daddy and Me dates with Larson. Daddy takes Larson on the most fun adventures: to the art museum, to the zoo, to the store, to IKEA. As a mama I prefer to stay around home or walk to the park, but when Alex is watching Larson, there’s always an adventure in store!

What’s in our homemade baby food? Alex noticed that Larson loves the purchased pouches and wanted to find a way to infuse veggies and good-for-you real food into what he takes for snacks. So, our kale & sweet potato baby food recipe is almost entirely veggie based. You could also use spinach or steamed green beans or brocolli as a stand in for the green veggie component. To make them creamy and add some probiotics, we added organic yogurt! Either 1 cup of Stonyfield organic plain yogurt, or two packs of Stonyfield YoBaby work here.

You may remember us talking about Yo Baby in past posts: it’s organic yogurt for kids 6 months to 2 years with added probiotics for gut health. Larson LOVES it, and here we’re using it as a component to help veggies go down easily. Top it all off with a banana, and the pouch recipe is sweet enough to go down easy without any added sweeteners. Then you can pour the puree into reusable pouches: ours are freezer safe and PVC and BPA free (link to ours is in the recipe below).

Tip: You also can put your favorite smoothie into baby food pouches: just make sure it’s thick enough so that it doesn’t spill! Adding some organic YoBaby or Stonyfield plain yogurt can help to make it thicker.

And that’s it! Here’s Larson enjoying this exact homemade baby food pouch recipe with Alex. They’re the coolest dudes I know. :)

Let us know if you have any questions, or if you try any variations on this recipe too! As always, we’re over on Instagram: tag us @acouplecooks and @stonyfield too!

Looking for kid friendly recipes?

Outside of this kale & sweet potato baby food, here are a few other kid friendly recipes:

• Pumpkin Yogurt Fruit Dip
• Veggie Dippers with Yogurt Dill Sauce
• Peanut Butter Frozen Yogurt Dots
• Loaded Veggie Quesadilla Recipe
• Creamy Mac and Cheese with Greek Yogurt
• Hummus and Veggie Roll Ups
• Dark Chocolate Hummus Recipe

This recipe is…

This kale & sweet potato baby food recipe is vegetarian and gluten-free.

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