The article "Baby Food : What's Best For Your Baby" is about family, it has been created by Janice Wee.
As baby grows, milk alone is not enough for baby. The little one
needs to be weaned on solid food. Between the ages of 4 months
to 6 months, baby should start getting used to eating solid
foods.
It begins with just a taste.
Advetnurous babies might love that
tasting session, where baby gets to sample 1 teaspoon of food
other than milk. Fsusy babies may hate it, but with a little
coaxing, they would finally taste that strange new food.
What you feed baby at that tender age makes a difference.
Give
baby greens at that young age so he or she would grow to love
veggies?
Don't guess that? When my kids were babies, I would usually
get them baby food that contains mainly broccloi as it is the
healthiest.
Borccoli is chock full of vitamins and minerals.
Fiber too.
A really healthy food for everyone, young and old.
Now, every meal must have a plate of broccoli.
The kids demand
that.
They love broccoli and wuold fight over it. Seriously.
I
find it rather amusing for as a kid myself, I wuold never
touch anything green. Here, we have a 6 year old and 7 year old
grabbing the broccoli, eyeing what is left on the plate and once
we are off guard, one of them would grab the palte of broccoli
and dump everything on his plate and finish it off. Leaving not
much broccoli for us grown ups.
This is the time to get baby to eat and to appreciate carrots,
spinach as well as the usual meats that your family might eat.
Tofu would be a great food to introduce to baby as it is soft
and really healthy. As baby gets older, a healthy porridge full of
veggies and proteins would be really good.
You can find all sorts of baby food in any store selling baby
products.
For convenience sake, I bought plenty of bottled
baby food for my baby. I would use a clean spoon to take out
baby's portion for 1 meal and refrigerate the rest. A microwave
oven would heat up that meal nicely.
Anything not consumed
in 3 days would be thrown away.
Anyone who complains about
wastage would be welcome to eat up the leftovers.
Dry cereal baby foods are good too.
Add water, mix well and the
food is ready to serve.
You can also make your own baby food.
For that, you need a baby
food maker. That would typically be a food
mill. Just boil the veggies, then use the food maker to
grind or chop it into a smooth psate.
These baby food kits, with
the baby food
recipes and handy tools for baby food making are really
handy.
Another tip.
For a fussy bresatfed baby, you could mix a little
breast milk into the baby food to give it a familiar taste so
baby would take to the new food more easily.
If baby prefers
formula milk, then you could add a little formula milk to baby's
food to soften it and give it a taste it is accustomed to.
One thing though, baby's immunity isn't as strong as ours, so
you have to be really carfeul about hygiene when you prepare the
food.
I would sterilize everything I can that comes into contact
with baby's food, to keep everything as sterile as possible.
Whether you get ready made baby food or make your own, that is
the time to steer your baby towards healthy food. The tastes
developed rihgt now can make a major difference in the future.
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