The Truth About Baby Food

When your baby is somewhere between 4 to 6that 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 givehealthy. As baby gets older, a healthy porridge full of
enough nutrients for baby. Baby has to learn to eatveggies and proteins would be really good. Now is
proper food.It begins with a simple taste of babythe time to serve baby mashed up versions of all the
food. Tasting sessions of up to 1 teaspoon eachhealthy 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 thebaby food in stores that sell baby products. For
time to introduce baby to new tastes.If baby isconvenience sake, I bought plenty of bottled baby
adventurous, he or she would love these tastingfood for my baby. I would use a clean spoon to take
sessions. Some babies do not take change easily. Ifout baby's portion for 1 meal and refrigerate the rest.
baby refuses the new food, you could give it aA microwave oven would heat up that meal nicely.
familiar taste by adding a little breast milk or formulaAnything not consumed in 3 days would be thrown
milk to the food before offering it to baby.Anaway. Anyone who complains about wastage would
important thing to note here is that the food yoube welcome to eat up the leftovers.Dry cereal baby
feed baby at this point in time shapes the baby'sfoods are good too. Add water, mix well and the
tastes. Wean baby onto broccoli and that could wellfood is ready to serve.You can also make your own
become his or her favourite food.That is exactlybaby food. For that, you need a food mill or food
what happened with my kids. When they wereprocessor. Just boil the veggies, then use the food
babies, I was on this health food craze and boughtmaker to grind or chop it into a smooth paste.One
broccoli based baby food in bulk. Now, broccoli is thething though, baby's immunity isn't as strong as ours,
only veggie they would take.In fact these days, myso you have to be very careful about hygiene when
2 kids, a 6 year old and a 7 year old would fight overyou prepare the food. I would sterilize everything I
a plate of broccoli whenever it is served. Wecan that comes into contact with baby's food, to
normally try to ration the broccoli but each mealkeep everything as sterile as possible.Whether you
often ends with one of them grabbing the plate ofget ready made baby food or make your own, this is
broccoli and dumping all the broccoli on his plate andthe time to steer your baby towards healthy food.
finish it off. The other kid by then would haveThe 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 broccoliof which covers what you need when you have a
to eat.This is also the time to get baby to eat and tobaby.
appreciate carrots, spinach as well as the usual meats