Can you give pesto to a nine month old?

[whattheheck]

Sorry if daft question - just trying to think of something that isn't cheese sauce for the 90 zillionth time....

I don't think you're meant to, but I did with DC3. I didn't even notice that it contained pine nuts (thick emoticon). She used to have it at least once a week, with no problems. But I didn't allow DC4 to have pesto at this age.

Yes. DS loves it, and a fave dish at that age was pasta with pesto and peas

I would worry about the salt content of shop bought, but if it homemade then you can put less salt in it and i think it would be fine

Just don't if there is any history of nut allergies in your family... obviously!

I did, ordinary adult one occassionally
although now checking the plum baby food 'pasta with pesto' doesnt actually have pine nuts listed as an ingrediant so prob isnt proper pesto so prob isnt recommended

Personally I wouldn't with bought because of pine nuts and salt content but I did make baby pesto for an ex-charge and she loved it.

frakkinaround without asking you to reveal family recipe handed down through generations etc etc how do you make baby pesto?

my 'old family recipe' for baby pesto

frakkinaround - thank you....hope your great grandmother who passed it down won't mind

Sorry if this is a really thick question but what's wrong with pine nuts?

nothing wrong with pine nuts at this age, unless you have a family history of allergies. If you do... well, I would leave them out if I were you.

Tree nuts are one of the 8 food groups which are common for allergies along with shellfish, peanuts, milk, eggs and some other things I can't remember.

so personally I wouldn't but then I do have a family history of allergies and don't have children of my own so wouldn't want to feed other people's children nuts. When they're not yours it's much better to operate on a safe-rather-than-sorry principle so I stick to the baby pesto [/hypercaution]