First-time mother Debarati Chakraborty Bhar makes innovative meals for her twin daughters, who recently turned one, every day. Instant porridge, once a go-to dish, has been replaced with rava and milk porridge that she prepares from scratch. It was a chat with her neighbour Sudatta Dasgupta Ray, mother to two boys, that saw Bhar, a communications consultant, unlearn everything she knew about baby food. Ray introduced her to GK Food Diary, a food blog with 1.4 lakh users on Facebook. Since then, she has been whipping up everything from bottle gourd porridge to carrot, beans and moong dal khichdi for the kids. The two recently made pumpkin soup, which Ray describes as an "interesting evening meal". Pumpkin boiled and pureed, heated in a pan with butter, garlic cloves and pepper powder, is how Ray describes it. Simple but so delicious it turned out, that even she had a bowl full.

Founder-curator of GK Food Diary, Boston-based Kalyani Krishnan started the blog in 2015 with the idea of sharing every day recipes. But, it was her baby food dishes that gathered maximum fans. "I realised I should encourage parents to make their own baby food," she tells us in an email interview. Apart from recipes, Krishnan's blog discusses how and when to introduce solid foods to babies, weight gain recipes, dealing with children who don't eat, and remedies for common cold and indigestion.