1. Preparation of baby rice cereal. Method of preparing rice flour:

Step one: add baby rice cereal into the bowl.

Step 2: Add breast milk or formula milk into the rice flour in portions and mix well with a spoon.

Note: 1. Rice noodles can be mixed and eaten. As long as there are no allergies, different brands, different grades, and different grains can be eaten together.

2. If you use milk rice noodles, you only need to use warm water to prepare it, and the water temperature is 60-70 degrees.

3. At the beginning of adding complementary food, iron-fortified rice cereal should be added. After the baby is 6 months old, the iron stored in the body has basically been exhausted.

4. Different brands of baby rice noodles have different preparation methods. Please refer to the instructions on the can or prepare according to the consistency acceptable to your baby.

5. When adding rice flour, you can make it a little thinner at first, and then slowly make it thicker. Fruit puree, vegetable puree or other puree-like foods can be added to baby rice cereal.

2. Basic methods of cooking porridge and soft rice:

Step one: wash the white rice and soak it in water for about 1 hour.

Step 2: Boil an appropriate amount of water, add the soaked rice, and bring to a boil over high heat.

Step 3: After the water boils, turn to medium-low heat until the white rice blooms, stirring intermittently with a spoon.

Step 4: When it reaches a suitable consistency, turn off the heat.

Note: You do not need white rice to cook porridge. You can also add millet, oats, and various grains. You can try them separately in the early stage to make sure you are not allergic before mixing them and cooking them together.

3. Preparation of pureed vegetables

In the early stage of adding complementary foods, the main significance of adding food is not nutritional supplementation, but the cultivation of taste and the test of tolerance. Before adding other foods, since the baby has not yet experienced the sweet taste, first let the baby try carrot puree with a special taste, which will be easier for the baby to accept.

1. How to make vegetable puree/shredded vegetables?

Step one: wash the vegetables and soak them in water for 1 hour.

Step 2: Blanch the vegetables in boiling water for 1 minute. Remove the vegetables and drain, then pour away the blanching water.

Step 3: Place the vegetable on a cooked food cutting board and cut off the stem.

Step 4: Cut the vegetable leaves into suitable thickness using a crosswise method, and then use them to cook baby food, such as vegetable porridge.

Step 5: Place the chopped vegetable leaves on the strainer, use a grinder or a spoon to filter the vegetable puree into a smooth texture, and give it to babies who cannot eat chopped vegetables.

Note: Soaking vegetables in water for 1 hour and blanch them in boiling water for 1

minute can effectively reduce residual harmful chemicals in vegetables.

Root vegetables generally have higher starch content and can provide more calories to the human body. It is soft, glutinous and sweet, has a good taste, and has finer fiber than green leafy vegetables. It is easy to process into a paste, easy to chew, swallow, digest and absorb. It is especially suitable for babies in the early stages of introducing complementary foods.

Take the method of making mashed potatoes as an example:

Step one: wash the potatoes, peel them and cut them into pieces.

Step 2: Put the potatoes into boiling water and cook until a fork can be easily pierced (about 10 to 15 minutes),

then remove.

Step 3: Use a fork or spoon to mash the potatoes while they are hot. Add a small amount of warm water during this period to make the mashed potatoes moist and easier to mash.

Step 4: Add appropriate amount of warm water/breast milk/formula/milk, mix well and adjust to a suitable consistency.

Step 5: Place the mashed potatoes on a strainer and strain into a smooth potato paste.

In fact, why bother? For relatively soft and waxy root vegetables, such as potatoes, pumpkins, and carrots, you can just use a grinding bowl after cooking. It can be eaten and cooked immediately, which is convenient and hygienic.

To grind vegetables that are not finely ground, you need to use a food supplement machine. The advantage is that it can be beaten very delicately, but the disadvantage is that it cannot be beaten with a small amount.

Working mothers can make more on weekends, freeze them into small pieces in an ice tray, then unmold them and put them in a sealed plastic bag for freezing.

Every time you make complementary food, take out 1-2 pieces, add them to the porridge, boil and eat, which is very convenient.

4. Fruit puree/fruit slices

Fruit puree:

You can choose ripe and soft fruits, such as peaches, strawberries, bananas, individual Varieties of apples, avocados, papayas, etc.

Method 1: Use a grinding board

Step 1: Wash the fruit and wipe off the skin. Peel, slice and core.

Step 2: Use a grinding board to grind the fruit into puree.

Method 2: Use a teaspoon

Step 1: Wash the fruit, then cut it in half and scoop out the core.

Step 2: Use a teaspoon to gently scrape the pulp in the same direction to make a puree.

Note: Put the ground or scraped fruit puree into a strainer to filter out the thicker fruit particles. This is more suitable for babies who have just started eating solid food.

Fruit puree with yogurt is a good complementary food. The sweetness of the fruit is balanced by the sourness of the yogurt. The taste is not too strong, and children also like it.

Fruit slices:

Babies around one year old have grown front teeth and can bite food. Parents can cut the fruit into 2 to 3 mm thick slices and encourage the baby to eat it by himself.

In addition to the above-mentioned fruits, you can choose other fruits, such as watermelon, dragon fruit, mango, honeydew melon, etc.

Note: In general, peaches, cherries, mangos, strawberries, honeydew, etc. are highly allergenic, so it is recommended to add them to babies with caution. Especially mangoes and peaches are particularly likely to cause allergies, so it is best to try them after 1 year old. Pears, plums, watermelon, cucumber, winter melon, bitter melon and other fruits and vegetables can easily cause the baby to have loose stools. You should pay close attention to the baby's stool when adding it to the baby.

5. Minced/minced meat (chicken/beef/sheep/pig)

Choose the right ingredients: For pork, it is recommended to choose the middle meat of the pig thigh or pork loin; for chicken, chicken thigh is preferred , followed by chicken breast; choose the lean part of beef, such as the inner core of the calf or the tenderloin.

Method 1: Chop with a knife

Step 1: Wash the meat and pat dry.

Step 2: On a cutting board that handles raw food, cut the meat into 1 mm thick slices. Hold the kitchen knife at right angles to the grain of the meat and try to cut off the fibers of the meat.

Step 3: Carefully cut the meat slices into thin shreds.

Step 4: Cut the shredded meat into minced meat, and then chop it in different directions.

Step 5: When cooking, add a small amount of boiling water and mix well to spread the minced meat. Add it to the pot and cook until cooked.

Method 2: Use a blender/food supplement machine

Step 1: Steam or cook the meat slices first.

Step 2: On a deli cutting board, cut the meat into 0.5-1 cm chunks.

Step 3: Put the meat cubes into a blender or food supplement machine, add boiling water, and the water level must cover the meat surface.

Step 4: Start the mixer and stop mixing to check the texture of the meat.

Step 5: The minced meat produced by this method is larger and can be divided into meals. Cooked minced meat should be stored in covered ice molds in ice cube trays for up to 7 days.

6. Preparation of fish paste

1. Choose appropriate ingredients: Nuomi Mama usually chooses salmon, whitebait, sea bass, and cod. The fish meat is fresh and tender, not fishy, ??and has few spines.

2. Cut the fish into pieces according to the baby's food intake, and then put them into fresh-keeping bags. Leave a little space between the fish pieces to avoid sticking together, put them in the refrigerator, and take them as you go.

3. When making complementary food, steam a piece of it (about 10 minutes) and grind it into puree with a grinding bowl.

4. Sea bass glutinous rice mom is usually chopped into 3-4 pieces and put into fresh-keeping bags respectively. When eating, steam it. Some mothers like to put some green onions and ginger. Nuomi mothers like to add nothing, remove the spines, grind it into fish paste, and add it to the baby's vegetable porridge or white porridge. Is it nutritious and delicious? Every time Nuomi’s mother can’t help but secretly take a few bites, giggling

7. How to make liver puree?

Liver puree is a good source of iron supplement for babies and can be added after 7 months of age. Consume no more than 2 tablespoons per day, 1 to 2 times a week.

1. Choose the right ingredients: the surface of fresh liver is smooth without nodules, the texture is soft, and it feels like touching your lips when pressed with your fingers. The color is dark purple, uniform and no different colors, although it smells like liver. , but no odor.

2. Raw scraping method.

Wash the pork liver, soak it in cold water for 3-4 hours, remove it and place it on a cutting board, then gently scrape it with a knife, put the scraped mud into a bowl, and steam it for 15 minutes In about minutes, a bowl of liver paste is ready.

Or heat up the oil pan, put the scraped mud into the stir-fry, and add onion and ginger juice to remove the fishy smell (or not add it). After frying, mix the liver puree directly with chopped vegetables or add it to porridge or noodles to eat together.

3. Cooked scraping method. Boil the pork liver and chicken liver with water first to remove the blood, then change the water and cook, remove the skin and tendons, chop the pork liver/chicken liver into a puree, and then add it to vegetables or porridge and noodles. (If the liver puree is cold, you can add an appropriate amount of water and boil it.)

8. Egg yolk puree/egg yolk soup

When the baby is about 7 months old, you can add egg yolk.

1. Egg yolk paste. Mom can wash and boil the eggs, take 1/8 or 1/4 of the egg yolk, grind it into a paste with a small spoon, and mix it with breast milk, formula milk or boiled water and feed it thoroughly.

After adding egg yolk, observe the baby for 3 to 5 days to see if there are any allergic reactions such as rash, vomiting and so on. After getting used to the taste of egg yolk, you can put it into vegetable porridge and pasta.

2. Egg yolk soup. Open the raw eggs and take out only the yolks, add an appropriate amount of warm water (30-40 degrees) and beat them well, stir evenly, and steam in a steamer over low heat for 8 minutes. It's the same egg yolk, but the recipe is changed, and it becomes smooth like soft tofu, which is easy for babies to digest and absorb.