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3.18 (May work) from 11 votes (939 Visits)

Weaning ideas for food

by mammyrebs

(August 2006) (rank 500+)

I have found myself , that the easiest and cheapest thing to do is to buy lots of organic veg and fruit cook them put into ice cube trays and freeze, then put into containers and label them that way they will last for a month!!

Then the night

before you want to use them take them out and put into fridge to thaw then place pots into hot water to warm up.

I have little pots of swede, brocolli, sweet potato, green beans, carrot ect then you can take out what you want for example the other day, Rhys has two cubes of sweede two cudes of brocolli and fresh mashed potato which i mixed together so he has some carbs with his veg and he loved it.

I have now made little meals in pots like oven cooked chicken, brocolli and potato blended and three tablespoons put into a pot and frozen than i just de frost a meal.

it takes a few hours of cooking for healthy food that lasts a month!! rather than a few pots a day of baby food which mounts up price wise and only keeps from between 24hrs to 3days depending on what it is.

my little boy loves organic oats (which i get from a health food shop as they are golden oats with no added salt or sugar, and if you look at baby oats they add sugar!! why this is i do not know)

But what i do is place 4 tablespoons of oats into a saucepan ( my little baby is almost 25weeks now i started weaning at almost 5months as i felt he was ready by the signs i was getting form him, waking in the night after sleeping through, more and more unsettled between feeds etc) and some pre boiled water and cook for 1min then i add banana, mango or peach to sweeten the oats naturally as you shouldn't use honey untill baby is at least 1yrs old apparently so i find he loves these mixtures and it's nice and healthy for him that using sugar.

Just a little tip hope it helps, it did for me and still is, any comments feel free to type them i'd love to hear back form you.

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	August 2006 \| mcm

Excellent idea

I think this is excellent advice. If you can manage some timeonce a week and do the feeds for the week - it does help to save time during the week whil e baby gets the best food and saves money too. Weaning baby onto solids can be stressful and awkward.

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	3.57 (Good) \| August 2006 \| Izzy

weaning?

First of, I was a little confused as I was expecting an article about weaning from breastfeeding, but I get greeted by a great advice on making baby food instead. I don't think your advice is poor. It's actually a great way to make baby food in advance and storing them. This is actually the first time I've heard of freezing food in ice cube trays. Very neat and sounds cool because then you can give your baby little bits of this and that as supposed to just giving plenty of one kind of food.

I have one question: does "pots" mean jar? as in a jar of baby food?

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	4.00 (Good) \| August 2006 \| mammyrebs

weaning?

I actually typed weaning advice from 6months but it stored it as weaning for some reason, but it can be from the start as puree you can freeze too, if i said put in pots and freeze i put mine in tiny plastic freezable and microwavable pots but any washed out pots will do and then stick a white label on it with whats inside and the date you froze it. When i started weaning it was babyrice 1 babyspoon two babyspoons once a day for a week then twice a day for a week then give them different pureed tastes to try like sweede sweet potato ect, as when you start it's just to have fun and see what they like and don't like and if they don't like it try it again a few days later (making a diary of what you give and amounts help so much as you can look back and increase slowley and keep an eye on how much of their milk they leave after too) under 6 months thay say stay away from gluten, added salt oats and don't give nuts or honey untill 1 year (because of allergies i think) but from reading loads of weaning books i got the advice i needed but decided not to follow the examples as they didn't correspond to our routine of bed time so i did trial and error and so far all is good, i didn't mean for the title to be weaning i will see if i can change it but as i said for some reason it changed what i typed, and if antone wanted any first time mam advice from what i've read and am doing myself i would be more than happy to share or answer specific questions sorry izzy love rebecca xx

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	3.00 (Average) \| August 2006 \| mammyrebs

weaning?

Weaning has a wider range than from just breast feeding, i breast fed untill 3weeks old when i got mastitus and had to go into hospital so my husband gave baby a bottle sma gold which he took fine (he went by instructions on tin) then when i got out i breast fed during day and bottle at night as (and i know this may sound yukky to some) but as i spurted milk i just couldn't feed him anymore at night as it would spurt everywhere and soak him poor ickle thing, afer a couple of weeks i had to go back on pain medication as i have a bad back complaint so then before i started back on the meds, i weaned him slowly,

just by reducing a breast feed and replacing it with a bottle one every few days untill he was completley bottle which he was fine with he still for a while turned to my breast when he was hungry but he soon forgot and adapted to bottle babies are excellent at adapting and from then i took my que from him

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| August 2006 \| mammyrebs

weaning?

just one more little thing when i read advice i rate on the advice not on what i expected to read as i have been let down by titles too on this site but we are only human aren't we and as it had the word weanong in it i suppose it chose that and deleted the rest i typed. But i still do feel that once your doing this that it is quite good advie as it really does save money and is healthier for baby too and gets them used to tasting your cooking.

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	4.00 (Good) \| August 2006 \| wildrose

Freeze in ice cubes

I did to with my daughter. First time food, I made 1 cooking for a weak feeding. I knew this idea from Annabel Karmel Top 100 Baby Purees book. It saved my time a lot!

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	4.00 (Good) \| August 2006 \| mammyrebs

Freeze in ice cubes

It is a good idea and i'm glad you used it as it does work, but no one told me about it , i just always freeze fruit juice to put in water on hot days, i just thought my ice cube trays where the right size for one table spoon so i used two cubes per meal. They last so much longer that commercial baby food don't they but baby food is good for convienience so i won't knock it i use both.

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	4.00 (Good) \| August 2006 \| mammyrebs

re weaning

Please explain why you think this is very poor as frankly i disagree as a first time mother when you get to 5/6 months it gets very expencive buying pots and also they add sugar and only last a short time, also from other mothers i have spoken to it is a good idea to vary pots and fresh as they taste different and you don't want your baby only wanting to eat pots of baby food and you can't vary the thickness as they get older.

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