baby food questions

can anyone tell me where to get baby cheese and baby youghurt and how is it different from the adult version? is there such thing as baby oats or can i just give quaker oats cooked in formula? thanks

For yogurt - do not buy baby yogurt, for one it often has sugar and two it is really expensive! We buy whole fat yogurt (Horizon, YeoValley, StPauls, Dair Farm, etc...) and if we go out of the house we can always decant some into a smaller container.


Cheese - again, buy regulary cheddar from the deli counter, just avoid heavily processed cheeses.


How old is your baby? For 6 months to 1 year we used Earths Best and Healthy Times baby multi-grain cereal as it has added vitamins and is super easy to use, and we made our own (oatmeal, brown rice, barley, millet, boil, add more water, boil more, add more water, boil more, add more water and blend). Over one year, regular quick oats is great!

crj, baby is 10 mths. i'd like to ask - what about the salt content of cheddar? is it lower than other cheeses? and aren't all cheese heavily processed? if we are not supposed to add salt n processed foods to baby's diet, when should cheese be given? for reg youghurt, it contain cow's milk but i thought babies under 1 should not be given cow's milk?


annabel karmel's superfoods calls for 'your baby's usual milk' to be added to cooking for some of her recipes. has anyone tried adding breastmilk or formula for cooking?

Milk - yogurt is actually different from Milk, and great for babies... (I forgot why it is different from milk, some enzym thing, but everything says so).


Cheese - I asked the same question and was told not worry about the salt content. What I mean by processed is the really processed stuff like Kraft Slices. We tried a few differnt types, our baby loves cheddar!


Yes you are correct you can add breast milk or formula - but just be sure if you use formula you mix it the way you would for baby to drink.

we only use natural yoghurt, adult version. baby is not a fan but i would rather he has a little of the real stuff than become addicted to the sweet baby stuff.


cheese - so we have tried mild cheddar, cream cheese and gruyere. for mild cheddar and gruyere, i use the natural one, those in a block instead of the kraft cheddar slices or whatever.


milk - when i cook with recipes like annabel karmel's, i use full-fat cow's milk because i understand that formula milk doesn't freeze well so i don't use that i a batch cook and freeze my baby's food. but when i use formula for baby's cereal, i mix the milk to the right proportion in his bottle first and then pour it into a bowl to mix with cereal. i think it's still important you make the milk up in the right proportion. as for cereals, we used earth's best and bellamy's. but i actually started a thread this morning asking for cereal suggestions so hkcc suggested quaker's oatmeal, which we will try when baby finishes his final box of earth's best cereal.


fyi, he is now 10 months.

BTW - the Yogurt answer (lactose...)


http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/


More details:

http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/tipyogurt.htm


"Why can I give my baby yogurt and cheeses but not whole cow’s milk?



Unlike Whole Cow Milk beverage, your baby is not at risk of formula/breast milk being replaced by Yogurt or Cheese. The medical community worries that if Whole Cow milk is introduced to an infant prior to 1 year old, that parents would stop formula and/or breastfeeding and use Milk as the replacement. This would possibly be dangerous to your baby's health!



Lactose is already broken down with the culturing of the yogurt or cheese and milk proteins are either removed or limited thus it is typically easier to digest; people with lactose intolerance often are be able to handle cheese and/or yogurt without trouble. The same is true for some people with a milk protein (either to the casein or the whey) allergy.


Milk does not contain enough nutrients, vitamins or minerals for it to adequately sustain a growing infant. We are told to NOT give baby milk until after 1 year of age mostly because milk is NOT enough to meet all of baby's specific nutritional requirements during the first year of life. Babies should be on breast milk or formula or a combo of both until after 1 yr old. nd yogurt are ok prior to 1 year.


Further, studies show that even people who are lactose intolerant may be able to easily digest Yogurt (and even cheeses). Lactose is converted to lactic acid during the manufacture/culturing of yogurt. People with lactose intolerance or even a milk protein allergy, are often more apt to easily digest Yogurt (and even Cheese) than other dairy product. "

Where/How do you buy the cheddar? Which cheese is good for babies? How long will the cheese stay in the fridge? I thought natural cheese goes bad if not used up soon.

I just buy cheddar in a big block from the deli counter... we have tried aged and mild and he likes both, he loves it. I slice it about 1 cm thick and then 1cm wide and he likes holding on to it and taking bites.

We tried otehr cheeses too, but he seems to prefer cheddar lately...