Every mother may encounter the problem of making baby [supplementary food].
After a tired day, I have to rack my brains and change my ways to make the supplementary food delicious and nutritious.
But the baby did not show any appreciation.
Making supplementary food looks simple, but it is really a [world problem]!
I want my baby to eat delicious complementary foods and grow up healthily, and I want to save time, labor and efficiency.
Lazy Method 1: Prepare the quantity for one week at a time and take it at any time.
The demand for supplementary food for babies is not large, but it requires careful preparation by mothers, which will take up a lot of time every day.
In fact, we can also choose to refrigerate the vegetables and meat after fresh-keeping packaging, and prepare the quantity for one week in advance. We can save a lot of time by taking it as we need it.
1. Baby-Stir vegetable meat into mud and refrigerate
Tools: Supplementary Food Compartment
For babies under 1 year old who mainly eat mud-like supplementary food, they don’t eat much and it is very difficult to make supplementary food mud.
Vegetables and meat can be cut into small pieces and steamed/cooked, then put into a cooking machine to stir into mud, split into supplementary food compartments, and put into the freezer compartment of the refrigerator.
If the temperature of the freezer compartment of the refrigerator can be kept below-18 ℃, the root vegetable puree can be stored for 2-4 weeks and the meat puree can be stored for 1-3 months.
After taking it out, remember to eat it thoroughly, so you don’t have to worry about bacteria.
2. Big Baby-Food Spare Quick Hand Making
Tools: Fresh-keeping Bag
For older babies who can eat lumpy meat vegetables, they can cut the vegetables and meat into pieces, wash them clean and cut them, then put them into fresh-keeping bags and freeze them, which can be stored for 3-5 days.
In this way, every time I cook for Eva or even for the whole family, I don’t have to rush to do it now. I grab a handful, stir-fry fast-handed dishes, cook noodles and porridge. This is also done in restaurants.
There is also a small skill. If you don’t think it is rotten, you can turn it in the microwave oven and then throw it into porridge or noodles to shorten the production time.
PS: Both preservation methods are suitable for root vegetables, such as potatoes, pumpkins, lotus roots, carrots, etc.
It is better to give the baby fresh leafy vegetables. Even if they are made into puree or chopped vegetables and frozen, it is recommended to finish them within 1 week.
No matter whether it is frozen or used in fresh-keeping bags, there will inevitably be loss of nutrition, but as long as it is properly preserved and eaten as soon as possible, the loss of nutrition is also small.
Lazy Method 2: Too Busy to Do It? Replace with finished supplementary food
Finished complementary foods have great advantages for working mothers. They are not only convenient and time-saving, but also can play a very good emergency and supplementary role in some situations such as going out.
In fact, the production environment and standards of many big brands of finished complementary foods are stricter than those of homemade complementary foods, and occasionally giving them to babies is also a good choice.
To buy safe and reliable finished supplementary food for Eva, remember these two principles:
1. Look at the ingredient list: It is better not to have sugar or essence.
This kind of thing like the following is not very recommended.
2. Look at the nutrition composition table: the lower the sodium content, the better, and it is better not to contain sodium.
Lazy Method 3: Use Three Simple Menu to Make Quick Hand Supplementary Food
Baby’s supplementary food does not necessarily require much delicate and complicated cooking. On the contrary, the simplest [cooking] can often produce nutritious and healthy delicious supplementary food, which can be eaten by adults and babies.
Here are three recipes to recommend:
1. Steamed coarse grains
Suitable for babies aged 8 ~ 10 months or so
Tools: Microwave oven/steamer
Steam small purple potatoes for 10 minutes; Steam yam and sweet potato pieces for 5 minutes, and then you can take them directly to your baby after taking them out of the pot.
In addition, putting small purple potatoes into the microwave oven and stinging them is also a fast-moving supplementary food.
Step 2: Cook porridge
Suitable for babies over 6 months old
Tools: Timing function porridge pot
Put the rice into the porridge pot in advance, cook it regularly overnight, and eat it ready-made the next morning. Are you happy or not?
3. Make dumplings/wonton in advance
Suitable for babies over 10 months old
Tool: Sealed Dumpling Dividing Box
At ordinary times, when doing it, you can pack several more small ones, lay them flat and put them into the freezer, then put them into the food preservation bag after hardening, and then pack them and freeze them.
However, the freezing time should not exceed 1 month, otherwise the dumpling wrappers will crack.
