Ani’s Kids Recipe,South Indian samayal & Tips!

When to start Solids?

In India my doctor told me to start solids like ceralac after 110 days. So what I did was after 110 days I started with biscuits. I used to take one Milk biscuit (like Milk bikis, Parlie G) . Put that in 10 ml of milk and let it dissolve completely. Then with a help of spoon feed you baby. Initially i used to give only once a day then after a week I started giving twice a day. 

Four to Six months

• At 4thmonth I switched from biscuts to Ceralac. If you are in US then you can go with gerber baby foods. Till the end of 6thmonth try different varieties in it.
• After 6thmonth start some fresh fruits like banana. Mash fully in hand and then give little (a pinch). If you are not using Blender of mixer, itz well and good. Your  child will learn to chew properly.
• If you get pufed poha/pori then put some puffed poha in front of your kid let he/she take it in hand and put inside the mouth. Its kid of exercise for hand and face(when baby chews).
• You can introduce some finger foods also.
• you can boil fruits like apple ,mash it and feed the baby.
• I always suggest you to give fresh foods and vegetables rather than going for gerber canned foods
• Give gerber oatmeal / Mixed grains powder once daily.
• If you can able to make sathumavu ( protienrich baby food on your own) give that daily or in alternate days. You can find sathumavu recipe in Kids recipe.

Seventhmonth

As the baby steps into 7th month you can try giving our foods.

How to cook rice

•  Take one fist ( 10 ml ) of rice.  Add same  or little less of Toor Dhal and pinch of salt and pressure cook for 4 -5 whistles.  So that it gets mashed completely.   Take out the food mash with hand and feed your baby. Please don’t go for mixers to grind.Try this for 2 weeks .
•  Slowly add one vegetable a day into the above preparation. Start with vegetables with have lots of water content in it like lachi etc so that itz fully cooked and blended with rice. ( what I saying is add rice,Dal, vegetable(little),pinch of salt and then cook). You can use vegetables carrot,beans,potato,sweet potato etc.Try the above for two weeks .
•  Then you can mix dhals ,you can mix vegetables and so on. Continue this as one time food until 1 and half years. When more teeth’s have come. Slowly reduce the whistle count for cooking.

 Tenth to 12th month

•  you can just our egg in bowl add a pinch of salt and mix well.  In tawa fry the egg by breaking into small pieces and feed you kid.
• At this stage your baby can eat one full baby banana as a one time food.
• At this stage slowly reduce the milk quantity.
• start giving fish. Try it if you baby likes give. Try with frozen since it won’t have bones in it.
• Start giving curd rice also.
• start giving rasam rice.
• Make your kid eat on his/her own some snacks like biscuits.

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