kepsis: Do you mind freezing your food for her? Some mommies do not like to freeze, but I have been feeding G food from the freezer since he was very young already and so far so good. If you don't mind food from freezer, heres what some of us do:
Ingredients: (note this can change)
- 1 Chicken Breast (skin off, bone left on) $1.50 in market, $5.50 if buy from cold storage
- 1 large white/yellow onion
- 1 packet of corn (either baby corn or 2 adult sweet corn. Chopped into pieces)
- Carrots
- 1 Vegetable (my son loves water cress and i've tried xiao bai cai, chinese lettuce, celery etc..
basically anything also can).
- Tomatoes
- anything else you want to put in that you think will be good for her. (wolfberries, apples etc).
Organic or not, you can choose. Since I cook soup stock once a week, I buy organic ingredients as much as I can.
Boil stock for 2 hours and then divide out into 7 large avent VIA cups (they have two sizes, I use the large one). After it cooled off, I put one in the fridge (for next day's use), and 6 in the freezer. I do this once a week (every sunday) so that I don't need to boil so often every week.
After that every morning I take the cup from the fridge, pour it into my slow cooker, add about slightly less than 1/4 rice. It slow cooks for about 4 hours or if you are using those normal over the stove method, will be much lesser. Then just cook it to your desired consistency. After that I add in a cube of vege puree and some fish (which are also frozen and defrosted). If you find that making vege puree a hassle (esp if you don't have the philips avent steamer device), then you can just cut vege into small pieces and add into the porridge. As for fish, I buy threadfin, salmon, red snapper, cod.. pre-portioned into small pieces (probably half a palm size), and freeze. Then every day take out 1 slice together with the soup stock. You can also try minced pork, minced chicken, minced beef etc instead of fish because one mommy here said before that we cannot feed too much of these type of fish.
This is what I do daily for the past 4 months liao and what turns out is very fragrant and delicious porridge (which I myself eat the leftovers kekeke). Don't forget the 1 teaspoon of ikan bilis powder!
Might sound troublesome but its actually very convenient and once you get the "production" going, it saves a lot of trouble for you. [IMG=http://www.singaporemotherhood.com/forumboard/clipart/happy.gif]
You can try many other soup stocks, I change every week. Sometimes I put pork bones (remember to boil them once and throw the water away first because it contains scum which makes it very porky taste), sometimes I use beef cubes with radish etc etc. But I find the tastiest one is still chicken breast. Some might find that baby cannot eat this etc etc, but I am quite flexible with food for baby nowadays.. my policy is as long as its not all the time.
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(Just made on sunday with 1 Chicken Breast and threadfin fish bones.)