Easy Way To Prepare Your Own Baby Food

Easy Way To Prepare Your Own Baby Food

Your infant may soon begin eating solid foods. Do you intend to prepare your own baby food?

Making baby's first foods at home allows you to cut costs and waste. You can also select healthier options. Fresh meals are usually more nutrient-dense than canned foods, and if you want, you can buy organic food to prepare for your baby. Additionally, you can avoid the unhealthy components that are found in commercial baby food.

The simple method for preparing homemade baby food:

    1) Save your money and avoid purchasing one of those baby food grinders. They are cumbersome and difficult to clean.

    2) You can nearly always just mash with a fork to the correct consistency if you wait until your kid is 6 months old to introduce solids.

If you're breastfeeding, you can even hold off on giving your child small finger foods like peas, pieces of grated apple, and the like until his "pincer grasp" has fully matured. 

When a baby can squeeze little objects between his thumb and first finger, such as food on the kitchen floor or bits of carpet fluff, the pincer grasp has formed. 

In fact, delaying the introduction of solids longer may be desirable if there is a family history of food allergies. No of the baby's age, only ever introduce one meal at a time and wait a few days to introduce another while keeping an eye out for any symptoms of an allergy. Move slowly.

3) Begin with foods with just one fresh ingredient, such as:

• Banana
• Carrot, turnip, potato, and yam all steamed
• Avocado
• Peach, melon, ripe pears, and plums
• prepared squash
• steaming or raw apple grated
• Peas
• Well cooked beans
• yolks of hard-cooked eggs (avoid the whites until 1 year)

You could offer some of these things raw. To make them softer for babies, some are softly steamed (steaming maintains more nutrients than canning).

4) Making a big deal out of preparing a baby's food is unnecessary.

Food can be blended and frozen in ice cube trays if you want to spend a lot of time doing so. But I'm all for taking the simple route!

If you're steaming vegetables for dinner, for instance, remove a tablespoon of them from the skillet before adding butter and salt. Place this on the baby's dish, then mash it up. Voila! Without further effort, instant baby food. Or take a small piece of your roast beef and thoroughly mash it.

Even when dining out, you can bring portable food with you, such as a banana or an apple, then "grate" it finely with a spoon at your table. Cooked beans or avocado would be available at any restaurant with a salad bar. Or give a little of your baked potato to the infant (before you add the goodies on top).

Being a new parent is difficult enough. Make introducing solids simple!