| When your baby is somewhere between 4 to 6 | | | | that your family might eat. Tofu would be a great |
| months old, it is time to prepare baby for solid food. | | | | food to introduce to baby as it is soft and very |
| Past the age of 6 months, milk alone would not give | | | | healthy. As baby gets older, a healthy porridge full of |
| enough nutrients for baby. Baby has to learn to eat | | | | veggies and proteins would be really good. Now is |
| proper food.It begins with a simple taste of baby | | | | the time to serve baby mashed up versions of all the |
| food. Tasting sessions of up to 1 teaspoon each | | | | healthy foods you hope he or she would continue |
| session. Mashed peas, mashed broccoli, porridge.. | | | | eating way past babyhood.You can buy all sorts of |
| basically soft food that baby can handle. This is the | | | | baby food in stores that sell baby products. For |
| time to introduce baby to new tastes.If baby is | | | | convenience sake, I bought plenty of bottled baby |
| adventurous, he or she would love these tasting | | | | food for my baby. I would use a clean spoon to take |
| sessions. Some babies do not take change easily. If | | | | out baby's portion for 1 meal and refrigerate the rest. |
| baby refuses the new food, you could give it a | | | | A microwave oven would heat up that meal nicely. |
| familiar taste by adding a little breast milk or formula | | | | Anything not consumed in 3 days would be thrown |
| milk to the food before offering it to baby.An | | | | away. Anyone who complains about wastage would |
| important thing to note here is that the food you | | | | be welcome to eat up the leftovers.Dry cereal baby |
| feed baby at this point in time shapes the baby's | | | | foods are good too. Add water, mix well and the |
| tastes. Wean baby onto broccoli and that could well | | | | food is ready to serve.You can also make your own |
| become his or her favourite food.That is exactly | | | | baby food. For that, you need a food mill or food |
| what happened with my kids. When they were | | | | processor. Just boil the veggies, then use the food |
| babies, I was on this health food craze and bought | | | | maker to grind or chop it into a smooth paste.One |
| broccoli based baby food in bulk. Now, broccoli is the | | | | thing though, baby's immunity isn't as strong as ours, |
| only veggie they would take.In fact these days, my | | | | so you have to be very careful about hygiene when |
| 2 kids, a 6 year old and a 7 year old would fight over | | | | you prepare the food. I would sterilize everything I |
| a plate of broccoli whenever it is served. We | | | | can that comes into contact with baby's food, to |
| normally try to ration the broccoli but each meal | | | | keep everything as sterile as possible.Whether you |
| often ends with one of them grabbing the plate of | | | | get ready made baby food or make your own, this is |
| broccoli and dumping all the broccoli on his plate and | | | | the time to steer your baby towards healthy food. |
| finish it off. The other kid by then would have | | | | The tastes developed now can make a major |
| managed to grab some broccoli off the plate though, | | | | difference in the future.The writer is the webmaster |
| but us grown ups would be left without any broccoli | | | | of which covers what you need when you have a |
| to eat.This is also the time to get baby to eat and to | | | | baby. |
| appreciate carrots, spinach as well as the usual meats | | | | |