Friday, 06 March 2009
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My Simple Baby Food Recipes
Curtis has reached another milestone - He is 6 months old already!! Now we will have to crack our heads on making baby food for him. Given his fussy eating habits, we are just keeping our fingers crossed that he will like solid food better than his good old formula milk.
Here are some very simple baby food recipes that are easy to prepare. Hopefully these will tinkered Curtis' taste buds:
Porridge recipes:
Chicken porridge with minced chicken meat and mashed potatoes and carrots.
Steps:
1. Prepare some chicken stock by boiling some chicken meat and bones in water.
2. Use the chicken stock as a base to cook the porridge.
3. Boil or steam the potatoes and carrots.
4. Shred the chicken meat into tiny pieces.
5. Mash the potatoes and carrots.
6. Mix all the ingredients into the porridge and serve.
Ikan bilis porridge with minced spinach and fishes.
Steps:
1. Prepare some ikan bilis (tiny dried fishes) stock by boiling them in water.
2. Use the ikan bilis stock as a base to cook the porridge.
3. Boil or steam some spinach and fish.
4. Mince the spinach and fish into tiny pieces.
5. Mix all the ingredients into the porridge.
Pork porridge with minced pork and mashed beans.
Steps:
1. Prepare some stock by boiling some pork ribs and pearl beans in water.
2. Use the stock as a base to cook the porridge.
3. Shred the pork meat from the bones and mince.
4. Mashed the pearl beans.
5. Mix all the ingredients into the porridge and serve.
Above baby food recipes provided by my sister. We will try them out this weekend.
by Terry
Would you try any of these recipes? What other recipes do you suggest?
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Comments (17)
Wow, these sound neat, but I wouldn't exactly call them "very simple."
For very simple homemade baby food, I pureed steamed veggies like carrots, peas, sweet potatoes, and green beans. All it takes is water and the veggies and it's 10 times cheaper than buying baby food. I use the "Magic Bullet" to steam and puree and it works like a charm!
i agree w/ the above comment. it doesnt sound very simple, or cheap, for that matter. pork ribs? i wouldn't do those recipes, sorry. i do steamed veggies in the blender, too, also cooked fruits like apples or peaches. if the fruit is not in season, i used canned. that works good b/c they come precooked, you just blend them. hope those recipes work for you, tho!
Wow, I don't cook much, so that sounds like alot of work to me! I am all about introducing single foods at a time when the baby starts solids, and I held off on any meat until my daughter was older...almost 11 months old. I'm with the above commenters on just steaming veggies and pureeing them into baby food.
ps. a little encouragement for you: my little stinker was super picky about his bottles, too, but gobbled up every thing i gave him on a spoon. we started him pretty early on baby cereal, at 4 and half months, and he was a champ. chowing like he'd been doing it all his life! he never had a problem w/ not liking things either. i hope your little guy will be ok!
Uh, does no one use the good ol' baby food grinder anymore? Being the oldest of 10 kids, I have a little bit of experience here: my mom always just used the baby food grinder and very rarely bought the jarred baby food. We always had the grinder at the table and whatever cooked veggie we were having that night was what the baby got. And then later, meat and whatever else we were having was added. I will definitely save myself the money and do the same when Gabe gets to this point. My blender sucks, so it will be the grinder all the way!
@Mom2Be - I seriously considered getting a baby food grinder but we had gotten the Magic Bullet as a wedding gift and never used it. When I tried it out, it worked perfectly so I was just happy I didn't have to spend any extra money.
Pureeing dinner every night is good, but sometimes it's just easier to puree a bunch of veggies ahead of time and freeze them in ice cube trays so you always have food on hand and you don't always have to pull out the grinder or blender.
@MlleBaroque@xanga - Yeah, that makes sense- I'd probably do that too if I had the Magic Bullet. Anything to save a little dough!
I was just kind of astonished that nobody had mentioned baby food grinders yet and thought maybe they had gone out of style, so to speak.
Kudos to you and your sister for going the extra mile! The first and the last sound yummy!
(I don't eat a lot of fish...but maybe the second one would be good for helping babies develope a taste for it later on in life...it is supposed to be good for you...)
Megan isn't ready for foods yet, but I do have a recipe floating around here somewhere from a magazine (supposedly, it's the same recipe that Julia Roberts used for her twins..*shrug*)...I'm in the midst of cleaning now, but it talked about adding rice to the mix as well.
Here's a great website for making your own baby food:
www.wholesomebabyfood.com
It's great!
I like your ideas. Everybody has different methods of feeding baby
@Mom2Be - I wish I had a baby food grinder! That would've saved us so much money! I can't find one anywhere though! Where can I get one?
@MommyGEM_RN@xanga - Mine was given to me off of my Babies'R'Us registry. Check their website: www.babiesrus.com
@samiannie - hey, thanks for the website, it's pretty cool!
@Mom2Be - Thanks, but the only one I found there a little while ago had really bad reviews. Maybe they'll get a better one in stock soon, hopefully! I will check again though, thanks!
@MommyGEM_RN@xanga - This is the one I have: http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2585711 and it seems to have pretty good reviews. Hope that helps!
@Mom2Be - Thanks! Does that work better than the electric one?
Wow. I always just mushed up part of what we were eating... I feel inadequate now... ;)
Avocado was an early favorite. We would mash it with a fork and mix in some tomato. The baby's love it and it's full of the good brain building fats.
We never really did cereal or pre-packaged baby food. We made a lot of rice or other small grains. Oatmeal with applesauce usually went over pretty well.