Food from a jar is not worse than your daily concerns about the dangers or benefits of natural products. Industrial baby food is safe, so buy factory lure and take care of your nerves. And if we talk about GMOs, it should be mentioned that most of the fruits and vegetables we consume have undergone a long evolutionary process of hybrid changes. It is not worth buying imported vegetables for winter cooking, for example, cauliflower. It is known that for long transportation and storage chemical additives are required, so it is obvious that such vegetables and fruits are not a healthy product. However, if you are harvesting, then self-preparation of complementary foods will be a useful and enjoyable process for you. In this article we will tell you how to prepare vegetable lure, and with which vegetable puree to begin feeding the baby.
Choose only the most beautiful and smooth vegetables, without treshchinok and specks, to make mashed potatoes. To start feeding the baby you can vegetable mashed potatoes with such products: carrots, zucchini, cauliflower - these products do not contain coarse fiber. When your baby has already tried mashed potatoes from several vegetables, the next step is to prepare the mixture. Before cooking, rinse the vegetables thoroughly under running water, and in the absence of it - boiled. Cook vegetables should be steamed or in a double boiler - on the stove, the foods lose their value, evaporating the beneficial vitamins. If you still use the stove - lay vegetables only in boiled water - so the yield of nutrients is minimal. Use a microwave with a steamer function - in ordinary microwave ovens, the vegetables are dried. During the winter months, frost may help you, the benefit of their range is wide. But do not defrost the frozen food beforehand. Around frosts there are many myths and rumors, but still they are unjustified. Pay attention when buying such products, so that inside there is not too much frozen water.
Do not add anything extra in the early days of complementary foods. After a month you can add olive or sunflower oil. Use a blender to grind vegetables or grind them through a sieve. To the lure successfully succumbed to a six-seven-month-old child, do not push the first vegetables with tolstalk, do not soften with a fork, the body can not cope with the fibers.
Decoction of vegetables, already familiar mixture or expressed Mom's milk - that's flavor additives for children's complementary foods. Since there are no salt receptors in infants, you should not salt vegetables. The child gets used to the salt when you accustom him to it. Therefore, if your baby refuses vegetables, do not rush them to salt - just to the vegetables your child is not ready yet. Feeding your baby's vegetable mash can begin at six, and ten months, and a year - for each child individually, it all depends on his desires. As in the diet of adults, the variety in the lure of a baby is a guarantee of health. It is better to eat a spoonful of carrots and two - zucchini, than to increase the volume. Do not feed force under the friendly hooting of grandmothers and aunts, this will not be of use, exactly, as well as eaten exactly by the instructions of 100 grams of the mixture.
Among the frequent mistakes in the preparation of vegetable puree for the lure of the baby can be identified washing products with soap. This is unnecessary. The remains of soap on vegetables will not be a useful supplement to your baby, rather the reverse. Prepare the bait once and just before serving, reheating will contribute to the loss of nutrients from vegetables.
Up to a year, make baby food from carrots, kohlrabi, broccoli, potatoes and pumpkins, zucchini, cauliflower, green beans, peas and corn. Refuse from vegetables, poorly digestible children's stomach: tomatoes, cucumbers, greens, white cabbage, beets. In the double boiler you can successfully cook vegetables, even those that have a hard shell - green beans and corn - here it quickly becomes soft and decoctions. Using potatoes in lure, mix it with other vegetables, as the mashed potatoes are still a heavy dish for your baby.