baby food quandries...
1) when i puree the food especially veggies it is still grainy... why? am i not cooking it long enough
2) we've tried peaches, pears, applesauce, banana
peas, green beans, squash, sweet potato, carrots
what else should i try?
3) i've tried making prunes once, as well as cherries both turned out really grainy like the veggies.. is it because of the skin on the fruit, should i peel stuff?
4) he is eating rice, oatmeal and barley cereals... how long do i feed him cereal for... when can i start other stuff like this?
5) we gave him some of those gerber puff things.. he really really likes them.
4 comments:
You keep at the ceral until he is a lot older. I think I kept using that with Forrest until he was at least a year old. Hold off on any wheat until he's a year old. Avacodos and soft tofu are great additions to what you are doing. Sweet potoatoes and yams are good too. As he gets older you can steam veggies and fruits as finger foods.
Are you adding water or breast milk to your purees? If you do, it will make them smoother.
Puffs are great, but kinda pricey! I found rice crispies are a great food! I even found brown puffed rice $1 a bag! Elliot eats them every meal. The classic cheerio is great too because it is made out of oats and not wheat. He probably needs to be a bit bigger before you try that.
Levi has a much broader food selection than either of my kids ever did! :) Once David was able to mash table food with his gums, the baby food pretty much went out the window.
Just follow Levi's lead - if he wants to try something you're eating, make sure it's not on the restricted list (milk, eggs, citrus, honey, etc) and that he will be able to gum it effectively.
liz.
i've been adding water to them, but they just have this wierd grainy texture that i can't get smooth out no matter how much water or breastmilk i add...
he LOVES sweet potatoes... and the puffs? they were on super sale, that's why i got them. i knew about cheerios, but i figure he was still a little young for those... maybe i'll try some rice krispy's that's a great idea...
Kix is another great finger-food-y cereal. They break down a bit faster than cheerios and are made from corn, so again no wheat. That being said, I started my kids on wheat quite a while before a year. My understanding is that wheat is usually only a problem if you have a family history of wheat allergies (much the same as tofu wouldn't be a good choice if you had soy allergies in the family).
By the time my kids were eight or nine months old they were done with cereals (just weren't interested anymore) so we moved on to finger-table-foods. My kids loved little whole-wheat pita triangles and tortillas as well as really soft cooked pastas. Yogurt and soft cheeses can be added too. (All of the milk proteins are broken down, so little tummies can digest them). Both of my kids have loved plain, cooked beans too, especially black and navy beans. Plain cooked, cooled rice is a good beginning finger food too and you can do the same thing with barley if he likes it.
Joshua LOVED peas pureed, and Lydia grew to love them. Plums are another good fruit and blueberries will puree up nicely as long as you mix them with something else (like peaches or pears/applesauce) and they're loaded with vitamins and non-allergenic. Mashed potatoes mixes with other harder to puree, weird textured veggies and greens to make something a little oen will actually eat. I fed Lydia potatoes mixed with pureed broccoli and with turnips at different times. It could be good with cooked chard/kale too (or spinach if you're not worried about nitrate levels.)
As far as the grainy, I'd try cooking them almost until they start breaking down. Even then, the only way I could consistently get grean beans/peas smooth was to use canned peas/beans (either home canned or purchased with no salt added) and then they would be smooth. Although, adding a smooth fruit and a bit of cereal seemed to help smooth it out too.
Whew, sorry that turned into a book! Happy Eating.
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