Baby Food : Beetroot Puree

The reason why I am sharing this is because I know sometimes beetroot may not be easily/successfully introduced to their little one. 

Here’s my sharing and I hope it will be helpful to anyone who is keen to introduce beetroot. 

Few pointers:

· Beet must be feed in small quantity. Too much beet may not be good. (Lazy to explain. PM me if you really want to know)

· Offer 1-2 times a week. Not daily.

· Small size beet a better choice than big size beet.  

   (Like a medium size apple)

· Do not slice & boil with your porridge

Preparation:

1. Scrub clean the beet. Do not remove the skin.

2. Boil the beet for 40 min. ( must be thoroughly cook to remove the earthy smell)

3. Remove the beet and put it into cold water for 5 min.

4. Remove the beet skin.

5. Cube the beet.

6. Blend it with blender until you reach fine texture.

For an apple size beet, you can split the blended beet to 3-4 portions.

Add one portion into your cooked porridge. (3/4 – 1 tbsp). Serve.

Rest you can keep it chill for next feeding or freeze it to be used within 1-2 weeks time.

So far I did not feed pure beetroot puree to my boy. 

I just add it into porridge. It tastes wonderful & sweet. 

Happy trying

Keep the texture fine if little one is not

ready to bite. To prevent choking.

 Added 2 teaspoons of beet puree into the porridge
Beautiful red 

Baby J finished the serving!

Baby Food : Avocado

Introduced avocado as one of Baby J's first food when he was 6 months old. This is the easiest and quickest  baby food I can prepare. Nutrition value, read here. 

Normally i will buy avocado from wet market. It cost RM 3.50 - RM 4.50 for a fruit.

Initially, I do not know how to identify a ripe avocado. At what kind of ripenss best for consumption. I depended on the seller by telling him when I want to feed my boy. He was trust worthy enough to pick the right ones for me. If the avocado is not ripe enough, it will be very hard. But if it's over ripe, they smell and taste rancid. The best time to consume is when you lightly press the skin, it's soft and the fruit still firm. Color indication may not be as accurate.

I still remember what my father said to me when i rejected eating avocado. Yea.. i never like avocado.

BUT now, i love them so much. Baby J actually got me into eating avocado. Each feeding, i got a fair share from my boy. I am more than willing to finish his avocado!!!  >_<

Baby J can eat about 1/4 of the fruit during his 6th & 7th months. Gradually increase and at 12 months old, he can easily eat half a fruit.

Perfect fruit. Fleshy. Small seed. Right ripeness

Small size fruit. 

It's different from those we often found in

the big hypermarket. It has rough skin.

Love this pigeon brand dish bowl. 

Scope a small piece of avocado, mash and feed directly. 

Just that easy.

 Look at how Baby J enjoyed his food!

It's alright to be messy!!  :)

Baby Food : Millet based Porridge

I started introducing millet as his porridge during 7 months.

While at nanny's place, Baby J started normal porridge.

The reason why i chose millet vs normal white rice. Here.

Plain millet porridge. 

It does not taste as good as normal rice.

It's quite watery as it contained nil starch.

Luckily Baby J was not too fussy.

Millet with grated carrot, sweet corn & sweet potatoes

This combination taste far better than the plain millet porridge.

The corns only as flavoring. Baby J was not ready to swallow them yet.

This may not look appealing..  sorry for the pic quality.

It is millet + tofu.

Baby enjoyed as much

There are many variation one can try.

I personally have tried millet with pumpkin, carrot, tofu, 

sweet potatoes during the initial when i introduced solid

to Baby J. There was no sign of rejection or allergy or indigestion 

from Baby J.

Millet can be too plain therefore i started to mix with quinoa & baby rice.

Baby Food : Baby Porridge

I admit. I’m one of the type mothers who are trying to provide better food selection for my little boy. Not because i am pampering my boy but i do believe in proper nutrition. Nowadays not only our environment but our food is badly contaminated. Day in day out we are munching chemicals/artificial food into our stomach. We may not see it the impact now.

It's my baby crucial year building his immune system, so i opted to provide better food selection for him. Does this mean by doing so baby J will be sickness free or different from others. Humbly the answer is NO.

It's just my choice and preference.

Do i buy all organic food for him. My answer is NO too.  Just anything i feel safe. He is still allowed to have other food apart from my personal preparation and I'm fine with it as long as it's proper baby food. (meaning not char koay teow, wan tan mee, ice cream, sausages etc.. hahaha.. he still gets to enjoy all these from mother's milk   >.<)

This is the baby porridge I have been preparing over the weekends.

Ingredients:

Anchovies (Ikan Bilis)

Millet

Quinoa

Baby Rice

Carrot

Method:

1. To reduce the saltiness of ikan bilis, I prewashed ikan bilis & oven dry it. Keep a tub of baked ikan  bilis in the fridge.

2. Soak millet, quinoa & baby rice for few hours prior cooking.

3. Ratio.     2:2:1   Millet  : Quinoa  : Baby Rice

4. Put a small amount of ikan bilis into a soap pocket. To reduce to messiness of picking the ikan bilis from the porridge prior feeding.

5. Add in ikan bilis into the pot. Grate in carrot and boil for 30 min.

6. For softer texture, boil longer.

7. Remove the pocket of ikan bilis. Serve.

Mixture of Millet , Quinoa , Baby Rice - presoaked

Why do I choose millet & quinoa? You can find out more here.

I use this as the base porridge. I will add in other ingredients like puree to get a different flavor of the day.

When I’m lazy. I will just feed baby J this basic porridge. 

Very yummilicious baby porridge.