Babies aged 1-3 months: Starting from one month old, babies can be fed vegetable water to supplement some vitamin C. The method is to boil some fresh leaves in water for 10 minutes. Once a day.
Baby 4-10 months old: At four months, when the baby starts to eat rice cereal, you can feed vegetables. Of course, the baby must make pureed vegetables before he can eat them. The correct method should be: Use green vegetables such as green vegetables, spinach, water spinach or carrots as raw materials. Cut the vegetable leaves or carrots into shreds, put it into half a bowl of boiling water, cover it and cook for about 10 minutes. Remove from the heat and cover it to cool down naturally. Sieve and use a pestle or spoon to crush the vegetable leaves to get the vegetable puree.
Do not add salt to vegetable puree. Generally, babies do not like to eat it alone. It can be mixed with porridge and rice cereal and eaten together. Once or twice a day, 1 to 2 tablespoons each time is enough. However, the pureed vegetables should be prepared and eaten at the same time to prevent the vitamins in them from being oxidized by the air and lost. This method is particularly effective in preventing infant constipation caused by simply eating milk. When your baby is 6 months old, you can try giving her some mashed potatoes or green beans.
Baby 10-14 months old: After the baby has teeth, he starts to like chewing things. At 10 months old, you can give your baby shredded vegetables. You don’t have to make so much effort to puree vegetables. Vegetables are the best. Do not chop and then cook, as this will result in the loss of a lot of water-soluble vitamins. Keep a pair of scissors specially designed for babies to cut vegetables at home. Blanch them in boiling water or cook them in boiling water before use. You can cook the vegetable leaves whole first. , and then use clean scissors to cut the vegetable leaves into pieces.
At this time, the baby has a big appetite. You can eat less than half a bowl of chopped vegetables at each meal, add some salt appropriately, or cook it with pork liver or lean meat. The meat can be crushed and mixed with vegetables. , make the vegetables taste better, and the baby can eat them alone without mixing them into porridge or rice cereal, so as to develop the habit of eating separate meals in the future.
Babies aged 1 and a half to 2 years old: When the baby reaches one and a half years old and his teeth have grown a lot, the chopped vegetables can be cut into small pieces of about 0.5 cm to give the baby more opportunities to chew. Saliva secretion promotes digestion.
2-year-old baby: After the baby is two years old and all his teeth have come out, he can cut the vegetables into small sections of about 2 cm or 0.5 cm dices for cooking. There is no need to cut them with scissors after cooking. At this time, you can try the cooking method of soaking the vegetables in water and then quickly frying them to make the vegetables taste better and your baby will like to eat them more.
Babies after 3 years old: After the baby is three years old and his chewing and digestion abilities have greatly improved, mothers no longer have to cook vegetables for the baby alone. They can choose some tender vegetables from the adults’ vegetables. Leaves should be given to babies, but the vegetables should be cooked thoroughly and the baby's digestion ability should be taken into account. Don't follow the adult standard of "crispy vegetables".