Detailed post on giving cereal combination

• Iam going to share about giving few cereal combinations with vegetables and fruits which you can feed your babie once they are ready to have solids.

• I always love experimenting with foods and when it comes to baby foods i always try making it healthy in any possible way as this is the most important stage where the baby should get all the required nutrition, so i always make it point to include atleast one vegetable or fruit a day and most importantly i always prefer making everything homemade including the cereal mix or the powder(homemade is always the best for babies).

• So i tried few combinations which my baby liked it a lot,instead of feeding vegetables and fruits as a puree separately you can choose to make it this way because once the baby grows purees alone wont be much filling so i thought of adding it with the cereals.This will be very filling and both the nutrition of a vegetable/fruit and the nutrition of  the cereal goes together.Also babies have a good sleep after having this.

• Another important reason of adding it in the cereal is,it dont affect the taste much,once the baby is used to the taste of plain cereals anything mixed with it wont make much taste difference as they love the flavour of the cereals.So always start giving plain cereals to baby at first, once they started liking the taste try with different combinations.

• Same goes with any fruit or vegetables,dont immediately start giving it in a combination.Let the baby taste the vegetables and fruits.Best way to start including is at the beginning,babies will have only 3-4tbsp of anything you give.So once the baby is 6month start giving pureed carrots, pureed apples, pureed bananas,mashed potatoes(most of them have natural sweetness in it so babies usually like it) Give 2-3tbsp of these purees during afternoon time.Morning time you can give rice cereal in a diluted form.So purees are just like a add on during the initial days.

• Now when both the taste are familiar to them start off with carrots first, and in fruits start with apple first.Then slowly bring in other vegetables and fruits.

• Another important thing i follow is i dont use blender or mixey for any purees.The heat produced from it changes the taste and colour which is not good for babies.I once pureed carrots in the mixey the taste was completely different which i myself dint like it.So try using hand blender or hand masher. Iam using the food processor from mee mee brand which is a savior for me in mashing, grating and filtering

Above is the one iam using, which is of great use to mash and puree my vegetables and fruits

• Of the 3 mentioned cereal recipes(check those recipes in baby foods), it is good to make combinations with rice cereal,as dal rice cereal is itself a combination of dal which is little heavy so dont mix vegetables or fruits in it.It is good to feed dal rice cereal in the morning.

• To the rice cereal u can make any combination and feed it during afternoon
Or if u can make with oats too.I usually feed oats during the night as it is easy to digest so i rarely make combination with it.
I always mix vegetables/ fruits in the rice cereal and feed only during the day time.

I will be sharing the detailed recipes for all the combinations in the the next post.
Thank you😊