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February 14, Thursday
minibeanie tried beef today - he's no longer a vegetarian! :D Today's lunch menu was potato, broccoli & beef. He frowned when he tasted the first morsel and took a long pause...before swallowing. After 3 spoonfuls, he wiped the back of his hands on his face and gave a long pleading grunt. Bits of broccoli became stuck in his nose and potato on his brows. Excellent. That was his way of saying, "no more!" but guess if it fell on deaf ears. Ok, there is a fine balance to thread between giving him total freedom to choose and making mealtimes world war 3. In the end, minibeanie ate half his lunch; I guess that was as good as it could get on the first try.


February 16, Saturday
There was more success with the potato-broccoli-beef combo today. He ate about 3oz, so that's about 85ml or so? We have increased his solid meals from 2 to 3. For breakfast, minibeanie had baby rice porridge with banana ("more more!"), lunch was potato, broccoli & beef (hmm, not a big fan of it) while supper was baby rice porridge again with applesauce ("yum!"). I'm considering switching the first meal to oat porridge for variety & more nutrition. Question to mums out there, what would your typical daily menu be like for a 6-month-old? :)


minibeanie is 6 months & 3 weeks old
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Anonymous said...

I guess depending on what literature you have been reading on baby food, you would be feeding your baby depending on it. ;-)

Meats that are least allergy causing would be pork/ beef. So you could introduce that together with veggies (or even fruits) to make the taste more palatable. In fact, beef + carrots/ pumpkin or even applesauce is quite yummy. If you subscribe to the chinese menu, then adding fish to the diet is a must (together with spinach) Ethan enjoyed lots of cod-fish and salmon. Esther seems to be self-declared vegetarian. (she'll say "don't want meat" and picks up whichever small bits of protein that we disguise and throw it out of her bowl). Tofu and lentils are also alternatives which I used quite a fair bit with the kids when they were younger.At about 6 months, I also added small bits of liver to their porridge about twice a week. One trick I learnt about liver was to add it into the porridge stock (which I made every week and froze it).

Recipe for Porridge Stock
- Chicken bones (chicken backs, chicken feet)
- Chinese wolfberries
- pig liver or chicken liver
--> Boil for about 2 hours and then scoop out the oil and freeze in ice-cubes tray.
--> When starting to prepare porridge, drop 2 or 3 stock ice-cubes in pot to flavour the rice/ brown rice porridge.

I will also prepare ikan bilis stock as well (from dried ikan bilis) and prepare it as above
except that I would throw in ginger slices to take away any "fishy" smell from the anchovies.

Other favourite yummy recipes
Chicken + Pumpkin + Cheese (Edam/ Cheddar)
- Put a little bit of olive oil and stir fry with some garlic and onions. Stir-fry the pumpkin until soft, and then the chicken breast parts and then throw in some cheese for added protein.
- Blend it and freeze.

Lentils + cauliflower + fresh tomatoes + cheese (Edam/ cheddar)
- Put in a little bit of olive oil and stir fry with some garlic and onions. Add in tomatoes, lentils and water and boil until lentils are soft.
- Throw in some cheese for added protein.
- Blend it and freeze.

I would use these frozen ice-cubes and then stir it into the rice porridge. The cheese does make
some difference to the taste of the food. Tastes nicer! As for tofu, it's relatively bland, so having the soup stock helps to make the porridge taste nicer.

Oh yah, and there were times when they were 6 months old or so, they would only eat avocadoes and nothing else!!! Green poop rules!

20 February 2008 at 07:22

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