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Homemade Baby Food and Storage Method
Baby foods, especially foods that contain all of the composition required by the infants such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals. Baby foods are good foods that created its own course more fresh and without preservatives or absence of a mixture of other chemical ingredients. For that, you better minimize early on about the food provided by your child so that the growth increase well, such as avoiding foods prepared baby food and prefer to make their own food.
Keep in mind and you remember, that in making baby food in order to pay more attention to the composition provided in accordance with the requirements, then wherever possible you make your own baby food so as to produce baby food fresh, hygienic, and without other preservatives. Before reaching age 1 year, avoid the use of salt to mix in baby food. Also, avoid also the baby to not familiarized with the foods that contain sweet or sugar. It is applied so the baby can still feel the food with authentic taste without containing the chemical.
In infants who have not attained the age of 1 year did not receive food containing either sweet or salty because it would interfere with the digestion. Avoid instant baby food because it is not good for growth is still too early, also the content of preservatives contained in the instant food.
Then, how to make your own baby food and the way storage is good and right? There are two ways of storing baby food, by way of frozen and refrigerated. For that, you need to know how to make it in advance. Here are the stages that you can follow in making baby food and it is stored.
Be frozen
Including feeding babies at least, for that you need to get around the food that made so as not wasted. If you want to work more practical in cooking food for your baby, you can cook it by the number of lots that will be frozen in the refrigerator. That way, baby food can be stored to be more durable and you do not have to work twice. But you need to remember that not all baby food can be frozen because there are some foods that change the texture after being inserted into the refrigerator. And you certainly can choose which one is good baby food can be frozen and can be cooked again.
How to manufacture:
Cook in a kind of baby food.
Then enter into a covered container.
Store in refrigerator (freezer).
Once frozen food, you can record to date of manufacture on the outside of the container so that you know exactly what time the food can be cooked again.
To re-re-cooking, remove the container of baby food that had been frozen and then let it thaw first and warm it before serving.
Chilled
Foods that you create with the least amount you can save it back in the refrigerator. But to avoid the use of baby food if it has more than 48 hours. In addition, if you do not want to present all the baby food to your baby take a little and give the dinner plate. This is to avoid bacteria that attach to the spoon that can make eating fast food is broken, if you want to re-store baby food in the refrigerator. For some baby food that can be cooled may be pulp, rice flour, cereal rice, broth, pureed vegetables, and fruit pulp.
How to manufacture:
Materials that are available such as vegetables and fruit peeled first, then cut into small pieces and boiled or steamed (the steaming food will be better because the nutrients will not be wasted in the water). On some pieces are cooled will usually change the color brown, for it gave a little lemon juice before it is stored in the refrigerator. Such as nuts, seeds can be boiled green beans until smooth.
Vegetables that have been cooked can be mashed with a blender or filtered according to the needs of the child. When you use a blender, use water as a liquid vegetable stew rest for blending. But do not use boiled water from the carrots and green leaves because it has a high nitrate content.
Food that has been presented so you can immediately or stored in the refrigerator.
When will be presented to the child, add the rice porridge or cereal if feels less viscous.
In making your own baby food had to adjust to the age of your baby. And most important to pay more attention to the composition required in the baby food so that your baby always get good nutrition and balanced according to age.
