Re: Baby Food- Desi
Ingredients (serves 2)
2 bananas
½ orange
butter (a little for frying)
brown sugar (optional)
cinnamon (optional)
You will need:
Frying pan
Method
Take a couple of bananas and cut them into chunks
Fry in a little butter with juice from half an orange
Add a sprinkling of brown sugar/cinnamon (if using)
When hot and ‘melting’ put in bowls
Serve with ice cream or custard for a special treat and top with a couple of slices of banana
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Ripe avocado should give to 6 mónths baby. Its gud for brain.
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Your baby should not be eating chocolates and ice cream. She shouldn’t even know what these things are at her age. And please don’t add sugar to fruits. You’re setting her up for a lifetime of dental issues and picky eating.
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Not all children are picky because they like to eat sweets. My son likes maybe one or two types of chocolate and 1-2 flavors of ice cream. But he is still very picky. He is very slim too, so the doctors say do not restrict calories.
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Any pediatrician will tell you not to start fruits first, always vegetables because infants have a natural affinity to sweets. If a baby is habitually given chocolates, ice cream and other high sugar foods to entice them to eat, it does set up unhealthy habits that are hard to break. I stand by my opinion that any child under the age of 2.5 yrs should not be given chocolates and ice cream and sugared bananas, especially as a meal just because they won’t eat anything else. Habits are taught by parents. A child can’t crave or ask for something they don’t know exists.
Children need to be exposed to foods sometimes over 15 times or something before they start eating it properly. My son hated baby cereals lol but constantly making him try it worked out and eventually he’d have a small bowl for breakfast. There were loads of messy days and spitting it out.. but i just kept offering it.
And like khattichic said - most babies have a natural tendency to go for sweet stuff. Breastmilk is sweet and sugars are the fastest/easiest form of energy/calories. If ur child likes sweet things offer her sweet fruits, without any extra sugar, as dessert if she eats a proper amount of dinner.
In general, desi food for babies wherever i’ve seen.. has been the same thing parents eat. If it’s too spicy (biryani etc) add a bunch of yogurt. Simple. No special separate foods.
Desi ghee is also amazeballs for energy/health, personal experience with my son. He lost a lot of weight in Pakistan due to the heat and not eating at all… i cooked everything for him in desi ghee (eggs/paratha/added it to salan etc). He gained back the weight he lost along with his appetite.
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need to knw full day plan. which things should be given at morning then noon, 4pm, 8 pm and last at night before sleepng.
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So…are like Indian desi baby food acceptable to you..or are you looking for paki foods only…
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True for most people , not everyone. My son as nursed and I went by the book, giving vegetables first and everything. He fell off the growth charts. One day hen he was one year old and he was not interested in anything, I went out and bought him a bar of chocolate. He did not eat even that. I was the same way as a child. Mom was a doctor so pushed healthy eating. If I didn’t like the taste, I did not eat anything or ate a few bites. If I liked something, I would eat itbecause I liked the taste, not hunger. Son, is Masha Allah 14 now and is getting less picky. Dad is the same way, will eat very few thing, doesn’t like sweets and is extremely slim. He was not pampered as a child at all as he is one of 9 kids and was brought up on very low means. I guess somethings are just genetic.
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One if my friends would mash yogurt, aalu, shredded chicken with a bit if Desi seasonings to get her baby brother used to our spices.
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I just fed my baby whatever desi food we were eating.
What he ate today: Milk when woke up, baby cereal in milk around 8:30, cracker snack around 10ish, couscous aspapragus chicken thingy for lunch at 11:30, woke up from nap at 2:00, ate his remaining food. At 5 we stopped for some fast food for the older boy, they had chicken tenders and fries. 6:30 milk. 8:30 haleem and naan followed by milk before bed alhamdulilah.
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My kids also ate whatever we did. I didn’t make special baby foods. They went through their picky phases but now, at 10 & 12, mashallah, they eat anything and everything. I’ve never had to make separate foods for them.
Sure, there are certain things they don’t like, and I don’t force them on anything. My rule is you eat whatever is served , if you don’t want it., no problem I won’t force you, just know you’re not getting anything else 
But I stand by my conviction that it is not a good idea to give young babies and toddlers ice creams and chocolates and sweets. That is a crucial time when good/bad eating habits form.
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I started with purees as that seemed to be what everyone was doing.
Baby ate a lotttt of avocado mixed with other things.
BUT
After looking into it a bit more I’ve decided to introduce food…as in whatever we eat.
In the past few days, we’ve had eggs, rice, avocado chunks, I also give him cucumber slices to suck on because he’s teething like mad right now, small pieces of bread, guacamole, grapes (just the inner part mashed up a little), blueberries and potato (bhurta style). Today he even had salsa…lol.
I will be giving him table food now because I think he is ready…he tries to chew (only 2 bottom teeth right now) and if he knows how to do that then I don’t see the need for purees.
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Proper desi ghee (not vegetable oil based ghee) is really good in general. Obviously not in vast quantities or eating food fried in it all the time. But a little to fry eggs instead of vegetable oil, for example, is a lot healthier.
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Yea, it makes life a lot easier too. When we go out for davats, I don’t have to worry about taking special food. Most likely there will be plough or something else he can easily eat.
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Reha, how old is your baby? My LO is almost 6 months. she doesn’t have any teeth yet but shows A LOT of interest in our table food. we give her rice cereal mixed with veggie purees and milk, but occasionally we give her mashed up grapes, soft bread pieces and let her suck on apple slices and cucumbers too. do you think i can give her other table food…such as eggs, rice, potato, etc?
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My son will be 8 months on the 6th of September.
I stopped the rice cereal first off. It really is nothing but a filler unfortunately or so it seems to me.
I had my son on purees starting from 4.5 months. At 7.5 months (after some encouragement from friends) I started him on soft things like eggs (completely cooked - no runny yolk), rice, chicken, fish, etc.
I tested him a bit first…we were out somewhere and I fed him some mashed up potato from the inside of a samosa. He ate it up and had no issues whatsoever. I made up my mind after that to be a little bit more adventurous and let him eat real food now. I watch him like a hawk of course since he only has 2 bottom teeth right now but he really likes food versus the purees.
This morning I made him his usual fried egg but he wanted my husband’s omelet that was loaded with veggies and chilies so he had it (mashed up).
Day before yesterday I made him some basic rice: rice, butter or ghee, cumin, salt, parsley with some boiled chicken and if you’d like some spice. My chicken was actually tandoori chicken that I washed up so it still had a bit of flavor to it. He ate it up…I mash it up a bit and lay in front of him and he eats it.
Yesterday, he had proper biryani and daal at a restaurant. I think its actually a bit more fun for them this way because they’re trying new things and taste something different every time.
I am surprised because he’s still very small but I guess Allah swt has made our babies stronger than we think…lol.
The rule of thumb to follow is basically don’t give baby whole things he or she can choke on like grapes, cherries, etc. Small chunks are perfectly fine.
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that’s great :). not a picky eater then? my toddler is super duper duper picky. i hope my 6m old likes everything and eats everything. so far she’s been good mashallah. do you give him milk with every meal? how much does he drink?