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Thanks, khawa. Would you use pureed veggies too? Or only fruit?
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i was getting to that before internet was a biatch! you can use any veggy.. but you steam those, unless your using an avocado.
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so peeling and grinding fruit is enough?
do you buy the flour, or make it?
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saving this thread for the future :@:
How does baby food taste?
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sahar: no no.. ready made corn flour... dont attempt to make the rice or corn flour yourself... home grinders just cant grind it fine enough for a baby's needs.. just see when u try to make dosa batter... its grainy.
oh and between rice adn corn flour.. the latter is better.. its sensitive towards the stomach.. rice flour same problem, constipating... BUT, if you add butter to the baby's meals, its all the same.
i add butter regardless if im making the food in water or milk. 1 tsp. my son had very dry skin and was constipated a bit... butter really helped both ways. usually if you are making the food in full milk, u dont have to add butter cuz the milk has its own fat. but its just a matter of choice really....
as for fruits.. yes .. dont have to steam it. there is nothign wrong with it but you are guranteed that all teh nutrients will get to ure kid if there is no steaming... if ure blending in a blender to make puree, it doesnt matter if the fruit is brusing ripe.. it can just be ripe... but if ure grating, not all 6 month olds can like shreds of stuff... so if the fruit isnt ripe enough, u will get pcs of grating rather than mush... so what i did was at 6 months, i used to just machien blend regardless what kinda fruit i had.... then at 8 months when my son could accept more lumpy choped stuff.. i would grate...
Sara, the cereal is very bland, so I mix in fruits sometimes, tho she doesn’t seem to mind. The jarred fruits and veggies are pretty tasty, and have nothing added.
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while preparing baby d=food, if you need to add milk? what milk you would use? tetra pack regualar??
my daughter is 3 months? should i start tasting her solids? which one and where to start? like ok bananas, egg yolk and what else??
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In the US, doctors recommend waiting until six months. This is for two reasons:
1) to make sure baby's system is mature enough to handle ten new food.
2) the bulk of baby's nutrition for the first year should be from breast milk or formula. Solids are supposed to be a light supplement
At five months I gave a small amount of rice cereal once a day, and occasionally a little piece of banana. She increased quantity and variety at six months.
Cereals require adding breast milk or formula. You can add to fruits and veggie purees, but you don't have to. No eggs! And in the US no cow's milk until around 12 months.
You should talk to your pediatrician.
while preparing baby d=food, if you need to add milk? what milk you would use? tetra pack regualar??
my daughter is 3 months? should i start tasting her solids? which one and where to start? like ok bananas, egg yolk and what else??
3 months is way way too early tos tart on solids... its either 4 months (for europe) or 6 months for the rest of the world.
but when you do.. you dont use full milk until the baby is atleast 8 months to 1 yr .. .until then you can use forumla powder or ready prepared formula.
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*Home made rice cereal *
this is how my mom is making rice cereal for guria these days & she absolutely loves it.
take like 1 cup or 2 cup of rice & soak them in water over night
in the morning , drain all the water .
then dry the rices on a piece of clean paper , spread them and let them dry,
one the rices are dry , grind them.
keep the grinded rice in a container.
now whenever you want to make cereal , like we do for guria , we just take 1 tbsp of rice (grinded) and then cook it in milk till the rice are fully cooked & soften (this will take a tleast 30 mins) then add sugar , mix well. Let the cereal come to normal temperature then feed it to your guria :)
on the weekend we even made kheer for ourselves from those rices. It's a quick and easy way to make kheer for yourself too.
you can start her solids after 6 months and from 6-8 months give her only fruits & veges & no protein. after she turned 8 months old you can start giving her protein so you can give her egg too.
start with the rice cerelac you get from the market. babies love rice cereal.
check this link also
*Home made rice cereal *
this is how my mom is making rice cereal for guria these days & she absolutely loves it.
take like 1 cup or 2 cup of rice & soak them in water over night
in the morning , drain all the water .
then dry the rices on a piece of clean paper , spread them and let them dry,
one the rices are dry , grind them.
keep the grinded rice in a container.
now whenever you want to make cereal , like we do for guria , we just take 1 tbsp of rice (grinded) and then cook it in milk till the rice are fully cooked & soften (this will take a tleast 30 mins) then add sugar , mix well. Let the cereal come to normal temperature then feed it to your guria :)
on the weekend we even made kheer for ourselves from those rices. It's a quick and easy way to make kheer for yourself too.
diamond, i worry about adding sugar this early. did you ever try giving it without sugar? or mixing fruit for sweetness instead?
thanks for the recipe! and the kheer idea :D
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Sahar-you can mix fruits. like mango , my daughter like mango alot and she would take anything that has mango in it.
otherwise honestly I have given it to her with sugar :)
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My niece absolutely hates the taste of the variety of jars my sister has brought her and just reduces her to refusing food. She has since made freshly prepared food herself, meals I know baby (9 months) takes are: plain boiled pasta with vegs and fish, fish fingers, baked potato, baby cereal and rice. She plays around with different combos of the above to stop meals getting boring for baby. Baby also gets sliced pieces of fruit for her to chew on as everything she holds goes straight to her mouth anyway and to help promote her feeding herself.
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Argh, in slightly related news the "Beech Nut" Peach flavor smells terrible.
Earth's Best has been GREAT, as I get my act together to make my own stuff.
thankyou .. i like these but i think soji ki kheer is reallly very good for your baby from 4 months onwards. it is delicious and make your baby healtier and happier ...
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how to make soji ki kheer? how much quantity of butter and soji to be used. and which milk???
sahar: no no.. ready made corn flour... dont attempt to make the rice or corn flour yourself... home grinders just cant grind it fine enough for a baby's needs.. just see when u try to make dosa batter... its grainy.
oh and between rice adn corn flour.. the latter is better.. its sensitive towards the stomach.. rice flour same problem, constipating... BUT, if you add butter to the baby's meals, its all the same.
i add butter regardless if im making the food in water or milk. 1 tsp. my son had very dry skin and was constipated a bit... butter really helped both ways. usually if you are making the food in full milk, u dont have to add butter cuz the milk has its own fat. but its just a matter of choice really....
as for fruits.. yes .. dont have to steam it. there is nothign wrong with it but you are guranteed that all teh nutrients will get to ure kid if there is no steaming... if ure blending in a blender to make puree, it doesnt matter if the fruit is brusing ripe.. it can just be ripe... but if ure grating, not all 6 month olds can like shreds of stuff... so if the fruit isnt ripe enough, u will get pcs of grating rather than mush... so what i did was at 6 months, i used to just machien blend regardless what kinda fruit i had.... then at 8 months when my son could accept more lumpy choped stuff.. i would grate...
Corn flour as in the one used to make dishes thick? Im confused:( what is buckwheat and rye in urdu?
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no thats a diff kinda cornflour.. i dont think it exists in pakistan.. not rye flour either.. atleast i dont think it does.. 
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Cornmeal= makai ka atta.