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Benefits of Making your Own Homemade Baby Food
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Benefits of Making your Own Homemade Baby Food
Making your own homemade baby food will ensure that what your child
is eating is fresh, nutritious and free of additives. By making your
own baby food, you'll be saving money. Also, you will have total
control over what is put into your baby's food. You can therefore
take the extra steps to ensure that only high quality foods are
selected and used. You will be able to feed your baby according to
his or her needs because you will know what foods are best suited
for your baby from experience.
Making your own baby food also ensures that your baby is exposed to
a greater variety of tastes and textures. This will help your baby
when making the transition to table foods and also help him or her
develop healthy eating habits. See http://www.baby-
shop.org.uk/guide/ for a collection of articles on babies and
toddlers.
Baby Food Preparation Tips
1. As babies are susceptible to digestive upsets, always work with
clean hands and use clean cooking utensils, preparation surfaces,
pots and pans etc., when making home made baby food. Prepare foods
immediately upon removing them from the refrigerator and freeze
immediately after cooking any foods you want to store.
2. Steaming vegetables is the best method of preparation. This
softens them, makes them easier to chew, and preserves more of the
vitamins and minerals than boiling. A steamer basket is cheap and by
cooking fruits and vegetables in it, you'll be sure of keeping the
nutrients in the food, instead of in the cooking water.
3. To puree your foods, you can use a fork, a food mill or blender.
A blender quickly purees almost anything into the finest
consistency. When your baby first starts on solids, you'll be
pureeing things to a very fine consistency and, as baby gets a
little older, you will make foods a little coarser. You may wish to
buy a food mill which comes in large and small sizes. It is very
handy and inexpensive. The food mill strains most cooked foods to a
very smooth consistency, although meats can be a problem as they
will have a coarser texture. Remember all the tools you need to make
baby food are probably already in your kitchen.
4. You can prepare large amounts of foods at once and freeze them.
Take your prepared foods and plop by spoonfuls onto a baking sheet.
Freeze the plops right away and then take them off the sheet when
they are frozen and put them into plastic bags. You can also freeze
the food in plastic "pop out" ice cube trays. Small tupperware jars
with lids serve the same purpose and stack easily. Label and date
the packages rotate them putting the most recently frozen foods
behind the previously frozen ones. Frozen baby foods can be stored
for up to two months.
5. When you take frozen foods out for baby, warm the food in a cup
placed in a saucepan of boiling water with a lid on. If you use a
microwave to thaw or warm baby food, be sure to stir the food well
to avoid hot pockets.
6. Cereals are typically the first foods given to a baby because
they contain lots of iron. You can prepare your own, by running
oatmeal through your blender. Fruits are generally given next.
Except for raw, mashed banana, you will need to cook all other
fruits till they are soft.
7. Try making your own apple sauce and pear sauce; don't add any
sugar, as these fruits are sweet enough on their own. You can also
peel peaches, plums and apricots and boil or steam them.
8. Buy and use organic fruits and vegetables. Use fresh and organic
vegetables whenever possible in order to provide the best nutrition
and flavor for your baby. Your baby deserves pesticide-free foods.
Frozen vegetables are better to use than canned.
9. Yogurt, mashed cottage cheese, mashed pumpkin, baked potato,
avocado and tofu (oriental soy bean curd) are all popular with
babies. One good idea is to blend together cottage cheese, banana
and fresh orange juice - delicious!
10. Meats should be added slowly. They can be boiled or broiled,
then put in the blender with a little milk and perhaps banana or
cream of rice to get the right consistency. Chicken is generally
the first meat baby is introduced to and usually goes down fairly
well.
11. There is no rush to start your baby on solid foods. Milk is his
most important food. Your doctor's recommendations and your own
intuition will help you to know when to begin introducing solids to
your baby's diet. Introducing solids prepares the baby for the
transition to adult food and offers further vitamins and minerals as
the baby grows. Always remember to be patient with your baby and
allow at least a few days between newly added foods to make sure the
baby doesn't suffer any reactions.
Copyright © 2005, Bridget Mwape writes for the Baby Shop UK:
http://www.baby-shop.org.uk/ which features baby information
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Benefits of Making your Own Homemade Baby Food
Making your own homemade baby food will ensure that what your child
is eating is fresh, nutritious and free of additives. By making your
own baby food, you'll be saving money. Also, you will have total
control over what is put into your baby's food. You can therefore
take the extra steps to ensure that only high quality foods are
selected and used. You will be able to feed your baby according to
his or her needs because you will know what foods are best suited
for your baby from experience.
Making your own baby food also ensures that your baby is exposed to
a greater variety of tastes and textures. This will help your baby
when making the transition to table foods and also help him or her
develop healthy eating habits. See http://www.baby-
shop.org.uk/guide/ for a collection of articles on babies and
toddlers.
Baby Food Preparation Tips
1. As babies are susceptible to digestive upsets, always work with
clean hands and use clean cooking utensils, preparation surfaces,
pots and pans etc., when making home made baby food. Prepare foods
immediately upon removing them from the refrigerator and freeze
immediately after cooking any foods you want to store.
2. Steaming vegetables is the best method of preparation. This
softens them, makes them easier to chew, and preserves more of the
vitamins and minerals than boiling. A steamer basket is cheap and by
cooking fruits and vegetables in it, you'll be sure of keeping the
nutrients in the food, instead of in the cooking water.
3. To puree your foods, you can use a fork, a food mill or blender.
A blender quickly purees almost anything into the finest
consistency. When your baby first starts on solids, you'll be
pureeing things to a very fine consistency and, as baby gets a
little older, you will make foods a little coarser. You may wish to
buy a food mill which comes in large and small sizes. It is very
handy and inexpensive. The food mill strains most cooked foods to a
very smooth consistency, although meats can be a problem as they
will have a coarser texture. Remember all the tools you need to make
baby food are probably already in your kitchen.
4. You can prepare large amounts of foods at once and freeze them.
Take your prepared foods and plop by spoonfuls onto a baking sheet.
Freeze the plops right away and then take them off the sheet when
they are frozen and put them into plastic bags. You can also freeze
the food in plastic "pop out" ice cube trays. Small tupperware jars
with lids serve the same purpose and stack easily. Label and date
the packages rotate them putting the most recently frozen foods
behind the previously frozen ones. Frozen baby foods can be stored
for up to two months.
5. When you take frozen foods out for baby, warm the food in a cup
placed in a saucepan of boiling water with a lid on. If you use a
microwave to thaw or warm baby food, be sure to stir the food well
to avoid hot pockets.
6. Cereals are typically the first foods given to a baby because
they contain lots of iron. You can prepare your own, by running
oatmeal through your blender. Fruits are generally given next.
Except for raw, mashed banana, you will need to cook all other
fruits till they are soft.
7. Try making your own apple sauce and pear sauce; don't add any
sugar, as these fruits are sweet enough on their own. You can also
peel peaches, plums and apricots and boil or steam them.
8. Buy and use organic fruits and vegetables. Use fresh and organic
vegetables whenever possible in order to provide the best nutrition
and flavor for your baby. Your baby deserves pesticide-free foods.
Frozen vegetables are better to use than canned.
9. Yogurt, mashed cottage cheese, mashed pumpkin, baked potato,
avocado and tofu (oriental soy bean curd) are all popular with
babies. One good idea is to blend together cottage cheese, banana
and fresh orange juice - delicious!
10. Meats should be added slowly. They can be boiled or broiled,
then put in the blender with a little milk and perhaps banana or
cream of rice to get the right consistency. Chicken is generally
the first meat baby is introduced to and usually goes down fairly
well.
11. There is no rush to start your baby on solid foods. Milk is his
most important food. Your doctor's recommendations and your own
intuition will help you to know when to begin introducing solids to
your baby's diet. Introducing solids prepares the baby for the
transition to adult food and offers further vitamins and minerals as
the baby grows. Always remember to be patient with your baby and
allow at least a few days between newly added foods to make sure the
baby doesn't suffer any reactions.
Copyright © 2005, Bridget Mwape writes for the Baby Shop UK:
http://www.baby-shop.org.uk/ which features baby information
including articles and discounts on baby products, gifts and advice
from other parents. This article may be republished as long as all
the above links are active and clickable and this author box
(byline) is not edited.
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