In this quick guide, you can find the most important recommendations for preparing your baby’s baby food.
There is now a wide range of foods processed for babies; however, at least when you are a first-time mom, you surely take on the task of learning how to make porridge; among other things because they tend to be healthier.
Once your baby goes from breastfeeding to ablactation, it is essential to start eating these baby foods. And although it seems very simple, it involves certain techniques and tricks that they don’t always tell you before doing them, but until after. Therefore, we tell you some of those secrets to make your baby’s porridge and stay on point.
- Choose the freshest fruits and vegetables (many parents opt for organic foods when possible) and try to use what you buy in a day or two. When fresh fruits or vegetables are not available, buying frozen ones is a good option.
- Have all utensils (blender or mixer, steamer, drainer or strainer, plates, spoons, etc.) always ready and clean on hand.
- Some of the fruits and vegetables that are recommended to start making porridge are: apple, banana, mango, peach, pear, plum, blueberry, carrot, peas, spinach, sweet potato and squash. As the days go by you can try some others.
- Cook the vegetables and fruits in a little water, and with that same make the porridge.
- The fruits, the more mature they are softer.
- Pass the purees through a strainer, but do not strain the porridge.
- For fine chops, use a sharp knife so that small pieces remain. The size should be in cubes of approximately 1/2 cm.
- Later, when you introduce chicken and meat, you prefer to use its juice to cook the preparations.
- Avoid salt, sugar, lemon, and other seasonings. It is important that your baby try them naturally so that he does not get used to the altered flavor that these ingredients give.
- Cook small portions so that you eat as fresh as possible. For example, with 1/2 chayote you get the porridge for three or four days. The porridge should not spend more than four days in the refrigerator.
Remember that when you go to heat them for your baby to eat, try to make it in a water bath or steam, and not in the microwave, that way they lose less their properties. Do not forget that the temperature you perceive is different from that of the little one. Be careful with it. Surely you will be an expert!