making my own babyfood, what foods to use?

Question

I am looking to make my own babyfood puree and have started with apples, bananas, peaches. I want to make vegetables but would like some help as what vegetables to mix together? I thought potato, pumkin, carrots. Any others? and also I heard advocdo, can I mix advocado with baby rice?

Answer 1

What vegetables to mix together?

Ummm ... peas and carrots, pumpkin and sweet potato (those would be good alone too), broccoli and squash.

Fruit mixes that might sound good are ... apples and pears, peaches and plums, bananas and blueberries.

Answer 2

I highly recommend getting the book "First Meals" by Annabel Karmel. It's my bible and I can't live without it. In general, babies love sweet foods. I get my 10 month old to eat "unpopular" veggies (like peas, broccoli) by mixing it with carrots. Parsnip and butternut squash are also popular w/babies. You can also try mixing cantalope (which is the most nutritious of all melons) with oatmeal or rice cereal to kick it up a notch. Mixing fruits, veggies and later on, meat/fish, will be fun and it's only limited by your imagination. Don't be afraid to mix sweet with savory. One word of caution, make sure when you introduce new food, wait 2-3 days to make sure there's no allergic reaction. Good luck and have fun!

Answer 3

As far as mixing things, I'd say you've limited only by your imagination -- but remember to educate yourself on what foods are appropriate to introduce at what age, and proceed accordingly.

Personally, I mix together various winter squash with sweet potato, apples, and pears, for one thing. Avocado is great on its own; I wouldn't mix it with rice, personally, because it's already very thick and requires a fair amount of water/breastmilk/formula to get the desired consistency as it is. And as rice is constipating, I wouldn't be looking for additional ways to add it into the baby's diet.

Have you done oatmeal? It's less constipating than rice, tastes better, and makes a great breakfast mixed with various fruits. (And when baby is ready for it, if constipation is an issue, the oatmeal can be made with prune juice instead or, or in addition to, the water/breastmilk/formula.

Two good resources I recommend looking at:

* Super Baby Foods, by Ruth Yaron
* http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com

Both are geared toward parents who make their own baby food, with good guidance on what food to introduce when, what foods to avoid, how to select/prepare/store various foods, recipes, etc. I find them both helpful.

Answer 4

sweet potatoes, squash, green beans are some that I can think of off the top of my head. Check the combinations from the jars of ready made baby food in the grocery stores for ideas. Or check with your pediatrician or a nutritionist.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

you could try sweet potatoes and carrots, you can also try mixing fruit and veg. together like pears and sweet potatoes maybe try peas and green beans, broccoli and peas/ and or green beans, just experiment thats about all you can do thats how people come up with new things who knows maybe youll come up with something that will make you big bucks, never know. good luck

Answer 7

I make my own too.
peas, carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, corn, I buy box potatoes, yams, chicken, turkey. rice. Pretty much what ever we eat he eats except, pork, eggs, nuts etc.

Answer 8

squash, sweet potato, corn, peas, pretty much any vegie.

Answer 9

Why bother pureeing when your baby is perfectly capable of eating table foods?

http://www.borstvoeding.com/voedselintroductie/vast_voedsel/rapley_guidelines.html#rationale
Breastfeeding as the basis for self-feeding
Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended for the first six months of life. Breastfeeding is the ideal preparation for self-feeding with solid foods. Breastfeeding babies feed at their own pace – indeed, it is impossible to force them to do anything else! They also balance their own intake of food and fluid by choosing how long each feed should last. Breastfeeding is essentially self-feeding, with the baby in control of the process. And, because breastmilk changes in flavour according to the mother’s diet, breastfeeding prepares the baby for other tastes.

It is not clear whether a baby-led approach to the introduction of solids is appropriate for babies who are bottle fed; more research is needed to establish this, since bottle-feeding seems to be more mother-led. It is difficult to make predictions about how bottle-fed babies will manage solids, so we need to be careful. However, as long as care is taken to ensure an adequate fluid intake (see below), there would seem to be nothing inherently wrong in adopting this approach. It is recommended that parents of babies who are being bottle (formula) fed discuss the matter fully with their health advisers if they wish to use this method.

Understanding the baby’s motivation
This approach to introducing solids offers a baby the opportunity to discover what other foods have to offer as part of finding out about the world around him. It utilises his desire to explore and experiment, and to mimic the activities of others. Allowing the baby to set the pace of each meal, and maintaining an emphasis on play and exploration rather than on eating, enables the transition to solid foods to take place as naturally as possible. This is because it would appear that what motivates babies to make this transition is curiosity, not hunger.

There is no reason for mealtimes to coincide with the baby’s milk feeds. Indeed, thinking of (milk) feeding and the introduction to solid foods as two separate activities will allow a more relaxed approach and make the experience more enjoyable for both parents and child.

Won’t he choke?
Many parents worry about babies choking. However, there is good reason to believe that babies are at less risk of choking if they are in control of what goes into their mouth than if they are spoon fed. This is because babies are not capable of intentionally moving food to the back of their throats until after they have learnt to chew. And they do not develop the ability to chew until after they have developed the ability to reach out and grab things. Thus, a very young baby cannot easily put himself at risk because he cannot get the food into his mouth in the first place. On the other hand, the action used to suck food off a spoon tends to take the food straight to the back of the mouth, causing gagging. This means that spoon feeding has its own potential to lead to choking – and makes the giving of lumpy foods with a spoon especially dangerous.

It appears that a baby’s general development keeps pace with the development of his ability to manage food in his mouth, and to digest it. A baby who is struggling to get food into his mouth is probably not quite ready to eat it. It is important to resist the temptation to ‘help’ the baby in these circumstances since his own developmental abilities are what ensure that the transition to solid feeding takes place at the right pace for him. This process is also what keeps him safe from choking on small pieces of food, since, if he is not yet able to pick up small objects using his finger and thumb, he will not be able to get, for example, a pea or a raisin into his mouth. Once he is able to do this, he will have developed the necessary oral skills to deal with it. Putting foods into a baby’s mouth for him overrides this natural protection and increases the risk of choking.

Tipping a baby backwards or lying him down to feed him solid foods is dangerous. A baby who is handling food should always be supported in an upright position. In this way, food which he is not yet able to swallow, or does not wish to swallow, will fall forward out of his mouth, not backwards into his throat.

Adopting a baby-led approach doesn’t mean abandoning all the common sense rules of safety. While it is very unlikely that a young baby would succeed in picking up a peanut, for example, accidents can and will happen on rare occasions – however the baby is fed. Rules of safety which apply in other play situations should therefore be adhered to when eating is in progress.