Preparing baby snacks every day will take a lot of mom's time. How should snacks be processed to save time and still have enough nutrition?
Modern women often have a headache with their little time, having to work while taking care of housework and, above all, still have to take good care of their children. Mothers with young children often feel "head off and dark" when preparing baby food. So how can the mother save time and still make sure the baby eats well and has enough quality?
How to prepare baby foods for babies to be nutritious and not take too long?
Preparing baby food should be full of nutrients such as protein, starch, vitamins, and minerals
First of all, mothers should prepare baby snacks such as porridge pots, beautiful grinders, food processing kits, weaning chairs, bibs, bowls, spoons, ... Choose food for children, especially pots, bowls and spoons must be made from materials that are safe and contain no harmful substances.
When the baby is just starting to eat solids, when preparing snacks for the baby for 6 months, I feed the baby each dish individually, without seasoning so that he / she can feel the taste of each food. When my child got used to it, I switched to traditional weaning porridge dishes.
Mothers should be able to balance the amount of nutrients contained in food ingredients to create a nutritious dish, should not give a lot of protein, causing nutritional imbalance, causing the baby to have bloating and indigestion. Each baby's meal should be full of groups of substances such as protein, starches, vitamins and minerals.
To forge good eating habits for children, mothers need to maintain proper eating times, when eating for children to sit on the chairs to eat weaning, not to coax their children to eat by showing their iPads, phones, or feeding children. It will be very difficult to fix. Streaking to eat early, it may take a little time at first, but later on, the mother will be very leisurely, and the child will not have anorexia.
Should I prepare snacks for children all week?
Today, modern science and technology bring to human life more comfort and more time to rest. The comfort that I mentioned here is the refrigerator. Thanks to it, I have saved a lot of cooking time, cooking food and had more relaxing moments with my children.
Many people are wondering if frozen food is good for their children? Scientists have confirmed that food stored in the frozen way does not lose significantly compared with normal storage or refrigerated in a cooler, not frozen.
When frozen, bacteria will have less chance to grow, food will avoid a lot of risk of poisoning. If kept in the refrigerator normally, anaerobic bacteria and mold will still multiply and food will be degraded, causing poisoning.
And this is the main reason for me to choose the method of freezing food, that is to save time as much as possible, and allocate time to prepare and prepare food properly while the baby is still replacing. Change menu continuously.
How to prepare baby food all week?
Your child's ration is not much, I just need a Saturday or Sunday morning, go to the market and prepare all the food, frozen. Thereafter, each meal only takes 1 to 5 minutes to cook for your baby. Your baby will have a menu of its own, rich and suitable, instead of having to eat with the family or waiting for your mother to cook.
How to prepare baby food
How to prepare baby foods: Sorting foods and preparing them
Pork / beef / chicken: Wash, chopped, put in each bowl of storage tray, can be steamed before mincing or pureing.
Shrimp, fish, eel: cleaned, chopped, put in a storage tray, can be steamed before mincing or puree.
Crab: Boiled, pricked meat, put in the storage tray
Vegetables: Pick up clean and soak in salt water. After preliminary processing, clean and chopped, then steam it, then grind or mince.
Flour or porridge: Cook well, put in a wide-mouthed glass jar with lid, to fit a serving each meal.
After preliminary processing, I used plastic to cover the storage tray and put it in the freezer. When it is time to cook for the baby, I take out 1 vegetable ball, 1 fish meat ball, 1 jar of flour / porridge ... and thaw. Boil flour / porridge, stir each vegetable ball in. All it takes only about 5 minutes, the baby has a favorite food.
The moms can freely combine fish and vegetables to create a rich menu. So each week only about 3-5 kinds of fish meat, some vegetables can give your baby a different dish for the whole week.
Note mother need to remember
Mothers can cook or keep food in a fresh state and then freeze it as you like. But need to follow the following food safety and hygiene principles:
- Wash hands before preparing food. Wash cutting boards every time you cook one item, avoiding the spread of bacteria from one dish to another.
- Prepare cooked food first, raw food later. Using cutting boards separately, if you are cooking and have to turn to raw food processing, wash your hands with soap before preparing.
- The storage tray is only for food. Do not mix with other things such as making ice, pouring jelly ... using a safe and secure storage tray for your baby.
- The amount of food in each box on the tray fits the amount of food your baby needs in one meal. Thawed food must be used up all the time or discarded, not refrozen.
- On each storage tray or separate food storage bag, it is necessary to write the name of the dish and the date of processing to avoid confusion later.
- Do not let food change its temperature suddenly. It is necessary to thaw first, do not put the frozen pellets in a pot of boiling water. Conversely, if food has been prepared through the fire, it must be soaked in cold water to cool it quickly and must be completely cooled before being put in the freezer.
- Do not naturally defrost at room temperature. It can be thawed in the microwave, or taken down in the cooler first and then removed, or insulated in warm water.
- Parents control the coarse regime depending on the baby's age. The mother should increase the roughness gradually, should not puree much.
- Also remember to add fat for your baby with butter, olive oil or cheese ... in addition to these frozen foods.
10 delicious and nutritious porridge for babies for mothers to refer
1. Chicken egg porridge + lotus seed + carrot
Baby snacks
Chopped carrots simmered with lotus seeds, put in a small blender with simmering water. Then pour into the cooking pot, add the ground rice flour / porridge stir well to dissolve. Place on the stove and stir well until the porridge is boiling and thickening.
Chicken eggs break into a bowl to get the yolks. Put about 1/2 egg yolk in the porridge and stir well until the eggs are cooked. Turn off the heat and add about 1-2 teaspoons of cooking oil or olive oil and stir well. Pour the porridge into a bowl or plate.
2. Eel porridge + zucchini
The cleaned eel is cut into pieces and boiled with a few chopped zucchini pieces. Eel, after being boiled, remove the meat and mince it or grind it with zucchini and broth.
Cooked white porridge / flour / porridge, add mixture of ground eel and zucchini with the above boiled water to the porridge, stir well, put on the stove until the porridge boils for about 4-5 minutes. Turn off the heat to add a little cooking oil or Gac oil to the porridge stir.
Done poured into the bowl for the baby to enjoy.
3. Chicken porridge + spinach
Chicken breast meat cut into small pieces and boiled. Thoroughly washed spinach, finely ground with chicken and broth. Pour pre-ground rice flour / porridge into the mixture of meat and vegetable juice and stir to dissolve.
Put the pot on the stove to cook until the porridge is boiling.
Turn off the heat to add 1-2 teaspoons of cooking oil or gac oil, olive oil to the porridge. Pour the porridge into a bowl or plate and let your baby enjoy.
4. Shrimp porridge + radish + gac
Baby snacks
Cut radish cut into small pieces and boil with shrimp. Keep boiled water.
Peeled shrimp is grinded together with shrimp, radish and broth. Pour pre-ground rice / porridge into the mixture of shrimp ground water and stir radish to dissolve.
Place the pot on the stove to cook until the porridge is boiling, the porridge is thickened, add a little freshly ground Gac and stir well in the porridge until the porridge boils again. Add 1-2 teaspoons of cooking oil or olive oil to the porridge. Pour the porridge into a bowl or plate and let your baby enjoy.
5. Tomato porridge + beef + cheese
Baby snacks
Peeled tomatoes and cut into finely slices. Ground beef, minced or minced.
Pre-milled rice flour / white porridge cooked first, then add minced beef and tomatoes to cook until the porridge is done, add a teaspoon of cooking oil to the porridge and stir well.
Turn off the heat to add 1 cheese, blend well into the porridge mixture, pour it into the bowl for your baby to enjoy.
6. Chashu fish porridge + carrot + cheese
Chopped fish. Chunks of carrot cut into small pieces, boiled, then grinded with broth.
Pre-cooked rice flour / white porridge and then add minced fish and minced chili mixture into the porridge until the porridge is cooked, add a teaspoon of cooking oil or olive oil to the porridge, stir well.
Turn off the heat to add 1 cheese, blend well into the porridge mixture, pour it into the bowl for your baby to enjoy.
7. Pork tenderloin porridge + peas
Baby snacks
Small boiled peas. Minced tenderloin. Pre-ground rice flour / white porridge, then add minced tenderloin with minced peas and cook for 4-5 minutes to cook.
Near porridge is added a teaspoon of cooking oil or water fat to the porridge stir well. Turn off the stove to pour porridge into a bowl or plate and let your baby enjoy.
8. Pork porridge + mushrooms
Baby snacks
Minced pork. Minced straw mushroom. Pre-cooked pre-cooked rice flour / white porridge, continue to cook for 2-3 minutes, then add the mushrooms and cook and turn off the heat.
Adding a spoonful of cooking oil can be used immediately.
9. Crab porridge + carrot
Iron carrots, put on the stove to boil and puree. Pre-milled rice flour / white porridge, then cook with carrots. Crab is boiled with a little ginger to remove fish from fish, separate the meat, mince. Stir fry crab meat with a little chopped onion and sesame oil. When the porridge is cooked, let the porridge go to the cup, let the crab stir-fry and finally a few drops of Gac oil can be enjoyed by the baby.
10. Salmon + spinach congee
Wash salmon with dilute salt water or fresh milk soaked in fish 20 minutes, rinse with ginger water to remove fishy smell. Then, dry the fish with a towel or let it drain and shred it.
Onion peeled, washed, chopped. Fry onions, then add salmon to fry. Mince the fish or spread it out with a spoon because the salmon is very soft.
Spinach selects young stalks, washed and minced.
Pre-cooked rice flour / white porridge, add salmon to the island evenly. When boiling, add spinach to the island. When the porridge is about to come out, season a few drops of fish sauce.
Scoop the porridge into a bowl, add 1-2 drops of sesame oil or olive oil to the porridge before letting your baby enjoy.
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