Introduction to complementary Foods. Make one: rice noodles
Step1: Mix 1 tablespoon (about 15ml) of iron-fortified baby rice flour with 4 tablespoons (about 60 ml) of breast milk or formula, meaning that the ratio of rice flour to liquid is 1:4. Since the baby has not eaten food other than breast milk or formula before, it is easier for the baby to accept the taste of breast milk or formula, and the baby can adjust the rice paste with water after adjusting. Use a small spoon to feed your baby, not in a bottle. [3]
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Step2: After feeding, help the baby sit up straight, only feed the baby to eat one or two spoonfuls at first, and then increase the amount of ta after the baby is fully adapted to swallowing food, feed rice flour 1-2 times a day. Give your baby a variety of single-ingredient baby rice noodles, such as pure rice noodles, oatmeal rice noodles, barley rice noodles. [3]
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Pay attention to the baby's situation, the baby turns his head or spit out food to indicate that he is full or does not like the taste of food, need to stop feeding or can stop a few days later to try again, if the baby has been pounding the table or grasping with his hands, it means that the baby's swallowing ability has improved, can eat thicker and faster, can increase the consistency of food, take rice paste as an example, the ratio of rice flour and liquid is 1: 4, and then from 1:4 to 1:3, to 1:2, to 1:1.
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If the baby has retching phenomenon, it means that the food is too thick to swallow, and the food needs to be diluted. In addition, different brands of rice noodles have different consistency after foaming.
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Introduction to complementary Foods. Make two: vegetable puree, fruit puree
1. Food preparation
Almost all fruits and vegetables can be pureed. Start by washing fresh fruits or vegetables thoroughly and removing seeds, cores and peels. Thin-skinned fruits or vegetables, such as apples and potatoes, can also be left unpeeled. [4]
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Before making vegetable and fruit puree, it is usually necessary to cook the ingredients, and the auxiliary food will be more delicate after puree. Soft ingredients such as bananas and avocados do not need to be cooked and can be mashed directly with a fork. Bananas and avocados tend to oxidize and turn brown without compromising their nutritional value or taste. [4]
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2. Cooking method
? steamed
? cook
? bake
After the fruit or vegetables are cooked, add enough liquid, such as water, breast milk or unsalted broth, put it in the blender to play a delicate and tender paste, to the baby who has just eaten complementary food, do not add sugar or salt. For older babies (7-9 months old), mash with a fork to create a thicker texture. [4]
3. Storage method
If you give it to your baby immediately after cooking, dilute the food by adding a small amount of breast milk, formula or water as needed. If it is to be frozen for storage, it does not need thinning. Separate the baby to eat a meal portion, the rest in the refrigerator; If you put the rest of the complementary food in the refrigerator, it is easy to produce bacteria. [4]
Spoon the food into the ice cube, cover it with plastic wrap, put it in the freezer and freeze into small pieces. Label the type of food and the date it was made. [5]
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Then defrost a little at a time according to the baby's appetite, you can defrost the bowl in warm water, or in the microwave. Make sure to stir well and test the temperature before giving it to your baby. [5]
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Introduction to complementary Foods. Cooking 3: Vegetable paste\/Shredded vegetables (leaf vegetables)
cooking methods
1. Wash the vegetables and soak them in water for 1 hour. [6] Choose soft vegetables, such as spinach or amaranth. [7]
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2. Pick the young leaves and blanch them in boiling water for 1 minute to remove harmful chemicals. [6]
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3. Drain the vegetables, place them on a cooking cutting board, and cut off the stems. [7]
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4. Chop the leaves of the vegetables to a suitable thickness. Chop the vegetables in different directions, so that you can chop the leaves more finely so that they can be filtered. [7]
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5. Put the chopped vegetables on the strainer, press the vegetables with a magic wand or spoon on the strainer and repeat in circles. The fine vegetables will be filtered to the bottom of the strainer and give the baby who cannot eat the vegetables. [7]
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You can directly give the baby to eat the vegetable paste, or add the vegetable paste into the rice paste or porridge that the baby is used to.
For an even easier way, cut the leaves and put them directly into the blender to make a mashed vegetable. [7]
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Introduction to complementary Foods. Preparation 4: Mashed potato (root vegetables)
cooking methods
1. Wash potatoes, peel and cut into pieces. [7]
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2. Put potatoes in boiling water, cook until fork easily through (about 10-15 minutes), then scoop up. [7]
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3. Press the potatoes into paste with a fork or spoon while they are hot, during which a small amount of warm water can be added to make the potato paste moist and easy to press into paste. [7]
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4. Add appropriate amount of warm water\/breast milk\/formula\/milk, mix well to the appropriate thin consistency. [7]
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5. Strain the potato paste on a strainer until it becomes a smooth potato paste. [7]
tips
1. Potatoes, sweet potatoes and carrots, these root vegetables are very suitable for making mash for babies to eat. This method is also suitable for pumpkin, winter melon, jointed melon and other eggplant melon vegetables. [7]
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2. To start from a small amount, observe whether the baby has adverse reactions, and then slowly increase the amount.
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Introduction to complementary Foods. Make five: Fruit paste
Method one: Use a grinding board
1. Wash the fruit and wipe the skin. With your left hand, press the board against the top of the bowl to secure it. [7]
2. Use a grinding board to grind the fruit into paste. [7]
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Method two: Use a teaspoon
1. Wash the fruit, then cut it in half and scoop out the core. [7]
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2. Hold the pear with your left hand, exposing the cut side of the pear flesh. With your right hand, gently scrape the pulp in the same direction repeatedly to scrape out the fruit paste. [7]
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tips
1. Select ripe and soft fruits, such as peaches, pears, bananas, individual varieties of fruits and vegetables, avocados, papaya, etc. [7]
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2. Put the ground or scraped fruit paste into the filter, separate the coarse fruit, squeeze the filter with the grinding rod or spoon, and the smooth pear paste will fall in the bowl, which is more suitable for the baby who just eats complementary food. [7]
Ingredients: 1 apple, several rice noodles
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practice
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1. Wash and cut the apple and remove the core;
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2. The apple can be steamed with an egg steamer;
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3. Grind the steamed apples into puree;
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4, brew good rice noodles;
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5. Stir the apple puree and rice flour
1. Pumpkin puree in chicken soup
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Ingredients: 1 chicken breast, 1 small pumpkin.
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What to do: Soak the chicken breasts in lightly salted water for half an hour, then chop the chicken breasts into puree, add to a large bowl of water and cook. Peel the pumpkin and steam it in a separate pot. Mash it with a spoon. When the chicken stock is reduced to a small bowl, strain the chicken particles with a sterile gauze, pour the chicken stock into the pumpkin puree, and cook for a short while.
The time and amount should be gradually increased: generally, the signal of adding complementary foods appears when the baby is 4-6 months old, and too much should be avoided at the beginning, it is recommended to add iron-rich rice flour as a complementary food for the first time, and gradually add it on a 3-day basis.
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2. Add a variety of foods in turn: start from rice flour and gradually add root vegetables, green leafy vegetables, fruits, egg yolks, lean meat, etc., only add one kind at a time, cook until cooked, and grind until sticky.