How to Flavor, Season & Spice Your Baby's Food with Kanchan Koya, PhD

#48: Babies don’t need to eat bland food! Yes you CAN season and spice and flavor your baby’s food safely. In this episode Kanchan Koya aka @chiefspicemama and the author of the book Spice Spice Baby is joining me to show you exactly how to flavor, season and spice your baby’s food. If you’ve been wondering about what sort of spices and seasoning babies can have and how to add those to your baby-led weaning recipes, you are going to love this episode. Kanchan is a Harvard-trained molecular biologist and in addition to all of her fabulous food flavoring tips, in this episode she’s also sharing some great info on the health benefits of different spices babies can safely eat, plus she shares a little insight about spice allergies as well. Listen to this episode to learn: WHAT seasonings and spices babies can have...and a little bit about the few you should steer clear of and why HOW spices not only enhance the flavor of foods for babies, but they also convey health benefits and how these ingredients can promote your baby’s overall wellness IDEAS for seasoning, flavoring and spicing up your baby’s food - no matter whether or not you consider yourself to be especially adventurous in the kitchen. Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/48 Links from this episode: Kanchan’s digital home is at www.spicespicebaby.com where you can also pick up her book “SPICE SPICE BABY: 100 Recipes with Healing Spices for Your Family Table” by Kanchan Koya, PhD On Instagram you can find Kanchan @chiefspicemama Listen to Kanchan Koya’s podcast Momlight Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 Not sure about which foods to offer your baby next? Get your copy of my original 100 FIRST FOODS list on my free online video workshop called BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices