Saturday, July 24, 2010

Guide to Making Your Own Baby Food

Want to make your own baby food? Here are some things you need to consider:

Food Ingredients
If you're just going to start giving solid foods to your baby, then start with simple. In addition to foods such as cereal, solid food for your baby can be a banana or avocado is mashed, pureed apples, pears, pumpkins, and potatoes are cooked.
Once your baby look like various kinds of fruits and vegetables, you can introduce the next beef, goat, or chicken to it. Make sure you do not put salt into baby food, and do not process meat with roasted / burnt. As a variation, of course you can combine the meat with vegetables or even fruits, like apples and pears.
After your baby is gradually getting used to different kinds of food and different textures and teeth begin to appear, you can try to give the fish a soft fleshy fruit and a slightly sour like a lemon.
Setting Tips
Preparation
First, every fruit you should peeled, reserving the fat and blubber from the meat and set aside too chicken skin.
Processing
For processing, food ingredients can you steamed, boiled, or cooked using the microwave.
Furthermore, for infants under the age of eight months, you can make these materials into puree. The process can use a regular blender or food processor. To make a smoother puree, you can just add boiled water to taste.


For infants older than 8 months, you just minced meat and other food ingredients could you puree with a fork. If you are using fish, be careful with bones yes ...
Presenting and Saving Tips

Storage
Baby food that has been in the form of puree, can survive in the freezer for up to 30 days, at the latest. How to keep it, you can use a container of ice cubes. Spoon puree into a container boxes, ice cubes, then cover with plastic wrap for food. Store in freezer.
Or, you can also use a plastic jar / glass as a container. This puree can survive up to two days in the refrigerator and up to one month in the freezer. Do not forget to label foods that contain information and expiration date.

PresentationTo serve food that has been stored in the refrigerator / freezer, you stay warm in the stove. If you want to use the microwave, you just put the cubes mashed into a glass or ceramic bowl, then heating it. Make sure you stir the puree until completely uniform, to avoid the gathering of hot food at only one point. It can be harmful to your baby.
Just before serving, first check the food temperature using a clean spoon and test using your lips. If there is food left over, do not be put back into the freezer yes ...

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