HOME MADE HEALTHY MEALS FOR BABIES
Children grow rapidly in the first year of their life. But parent’s needs to participate actively in the growing age of children. Foods that are eaten in the childhood really help the children, life time to fight with the diseases and make their metabolic system strong and healthy. Good early eating habits can help avoid obesity, allergies and boost intelligence, makes bones strong and helps the body to fight with every disease.
According to the medical experts from 9(nine) to18(eighteen) months parents have the great and incredible opportunity to put anything healthy on their child’s plate to train their taste buds to enjoy the healthy meals forever.
Introduce your child every vegetable one by one in different stages. Give one solid food at least five days .In this way, you can observe the reaction of that vegetable or fruits. And that also develop the taste buds of your baby. After introducing every vegetable; you can make a combination of purees.
Purees
Soups
Solids
Fruits
Meat
Storing baby foods
Serving baby foods
Recipes of purees
Puree of fresh peas.
Ingredients
!/4 cup of fresh peas
1 cup of water
Pinch of salt and black pepper
Method
Boil peas with salt and black pepper.
Grind them well.
Puree for your baby is ready.
Puree of Carrot and spring onion
Ingredients
Half carrot
Half Spring onion
Pinch of Salt and black pepper
Half cup of water
Boil them well and grind it well.
Puree is ready.
You can try this method of preparing purees with other vegetables and fruits .
Solids
SOLIDS
Mashed potato with butter
Ingredients
Boil potato
Pinch of salt
½ teaspoon of butter
Method
Mash well boil potato and add butter.
Mix it well
And give it to your baby.
SOUPS
Recipes Of Soups
Chicken soup
Boil one piece of chicken add salt and black pepper and give your baby.
Cabbage Soup
¼ piece of cabbage
Water
Pinch Black pepper and salt.
1 small piece of chicken
Boil it well and grind it.
Add chicken fresh stock in cabbage and give it to your baby.
MEAT
In the 8 month you can give your baby boil fish, chicken and minced chicken. After boiling mash them with fork and give your baby. Remove any types of bones from chicken and fish. You an also made the combinations of food like boiled fish with mash potato.
Mother feed is best for the baby but if you are not feeding your baby than formula milk is must to give your baby.
Don’t forget to give your baby fruits with vegetables.
But it is difficult than vegetables to introduce fruits to your baby the reason behind this s that you can’t boil them. Fruits are good source of providing vitamins to your baby.
HOW TO GIVE YOUR BABY FRUITS?
For this purpose you need to learn some techniques.
Mash banana is simple to give your baby and if you add a little bit of honey with banana that helps your baby to digest. Moreover, banana is good source of potassium and help in tummy problems. In the mouthing period, honey sooth the gums of your baby.
Apple
An apple a day keeps the doctor away
But for a baby it is not possible to eat an apple a day. But little piece of an apple you can give your baby. But now the question is how to give a little piece to your baby? Even he doesn’t have a single tooth. That tip which I am going to mention is really helpful and easy for the moms to give their baby apple and that method also help babies in their mouthing stage.
Things that we need
1 apple
A small piece of white soft net/white soft cotton
Knife
Method
Cut a square piece of apple with a knife and peel the thin skin of apple.
Than take a square piece of soft net fabric.
Put the apple in that piece of net and knot it well. Give that piece of net in the hands of your baby. And your baby himself put that piece in his mouth and would get the taste of apple. In this way he will not only get the food grains but also the juice of fruit. That is not only gives him taste but also helps him soothing gums. In the same way you can introduce many vegetables and fruits to your baby.
You can also take the piece of turnip and tie it in net and give it to your baby. That helps him in soothing his gums and that exercise of gums relax him in teething period.
STORING BABY FOODS
Purees of baby foods can preserve in ice cube boxes. And cover them with plastic sheets. You can freeze purees for a month. But if you have time than prefer fresh food.
Solids can preserve in plastic jars or boxes for two days in fridge or one month in the freezer.
Don’t forget to label the boxes
Label the boxes with the name of meals.
Check the meal before serving your baby
HOW TO SERVE
To serve, pop out the food cube in a plastic or ceramic bowl and warm the solids in microwave or on stove. Check the temperature with a clean spoon on your lip before serving to your baby. Discard left over and don’t refrigerate the food.
In the end simply I want to say in the first year of babies life provide them natural fresh foods. In this way you can avoid obesity and, many other health problems. As you know health is wealth and parents are responsible to give that wealth to their children’s; and that’s way they can give healthy members to the society .Because children’s are their future investment.
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