October brings with it its little Halloween ghosts, the graou trend and autumn vegetables colored by the summer sun. Pumpkins, mushrooms, broccoli, carrots and sweet potatoes, as well as apples, pears and bananas, are transformed into 100% home-made compotes and purées to taste and take away, thanks to the Élhée feeding bottle.
CONTENTS :
- Recipes for toddlers from 4 months old
- Autumn vegetables: the perfect start to diversification
- 3 autumn recipes for baby's little pots
- Take-away baby food thanks to the Élhée bottle lid
Recipes for toddlers from 4 months old
Ideally, until the age of six months, your baby will only consume milk. However, from the age of 4 months, solid foods can be added to the menu and take their place on the plate.
At first, the quantities are minimal, but as a parent, you can already start indulging yourself in the kitchen. There are many recipes for baby food, but autumn recipes are perhaps the sweetest and tastiest for your child.
- Up to one year of age, keep at least 500 ml of milk a day in addition to solid meals.
- Between 4 and 6 months, offer one novelty at a time, a fruit or vegetable.
- Throughout diversification, if possible, wait until your baby is curious about a food before offering it.
Preparing homemade baby food
For good homemade purée and ultra-tasty baby compotes, choose ripe, organic, seasonal fruit and vegetables whenever possible. A trip to the greengrocer, for example, will help you find what you're looking for.
To prepare your vegetables, you can boil,pressure cook or fry them in a pan with a little olive oil, but always without salt. Once cooked through, simply blend them in a blender, food mill or baby food processor, adding more or less cooking water.
Please note: the more water you add, the smoother and easier to eat the purée or compote will be. In other words, for a 4-month-old baby, add a few spoonfuls of liquid until the purée seems smooth enough.
How to store baby food?
When it comes to storage, there's plenty to choose from. You can freeze individual portions of purée, store them in the fridge (but be careful, they won't keep for more than three days), vacuum-pack them or sterilize the jars. To do this, just after filling the jars, seal them with their seals and sterilize by boiling for 20 minutes in a large pot of water. If done correctly, sterilized baby jars can be kept for at least a year.
Autumn vegetables: the perfect start to diversification
Preparing baby's first recipes in autumn is a real pleasure. And why is that? Because the greatest challenge of diversification is to arouse baby's curiosity. And what better way to do this than with the colors of autumn vegetables?
Squash, carrots, pumpkins and sweet potatoes in orange, figs and beet in purple, chestnuts, walnuts and hazelnuts in brown, grapes, apples and pears in green: the full range of colors on the autumn plate.
In addition to their magnificent colors, autumn vegetables lend themselves particularly well to first taste discoveries, thanks to the sometimes sweet sweetness of their flavors, soon complemented by a knob of butter.
3 autumn recipes for baby's little pots
Meals for babies from 4 months: the essential carrot purée
In the early stages of diversification, it's advisable to give only one vegetable at a time, and to blend the preparation finely to prevent your baby from spitting out the bits he's not used to.
- For one portion: about 200 grams of carrots and a drizzle of oil (olive or blended).
- Wash, peel and rinse again, then cut the carrot into sections.
- Steam or boil until fork-tender.
- Blend with a little cooking water to obtain a smooth purée, then add a drizzle of oil.
- All that's left to do is serve, checking the temperature, or set aside to store or freeze.
Petit pot de bébé 6 mois: butternut squash, sweet potato and turkey purée
From 6 months, you can introduce animal and vegetable proteins (meat, eggs, fish, legumes) as well as seeds (peanuts, oilseeds) and start mixing flavors.
- For a small pot: 70 g butternut squash, 10 g turkey and 1 drizzle of oil (olive or mixed).
- Wash, peel, rinse and finely chop the butternut squash, then cook in water before draining and finely blending.
- Repeat for the sweet potato, adding the butternut purée and the drizzle of oil.
- Cook the turkey in a pan of water for 5 to 10 minutes, then blend.
- All that's left to do is mix everything together, check the temperature and serve to your baby.
Baby compote with autumn fruits: apple, pear and rosemary
It's impossible to end this list of three recipes for homemade baby food without adding a specially prepared compote for your baby's first desserts.
- For a compote: 1 small apple and 1 small pear (or half a pear, depending on your baby's appetite), with a sprig of fresh rosemary.
- Wash, peel, rinse and finely chop the apple and pear before cooking in a little water or in a pressure cooker, without adding sugar, but adding the washed rosemary sprig.
- Blend the fruit without the rosemary, but with a little cooking water to obtain a chunk-free compote.
- Serve warm or cold, after refrigerating for a while.
Of course, there are many other autumn recipes for your baby's little pots: beet and ground white ham, pumpkin, coral lentils and coconut milk, parsnip and chicken purée, as well as pear and chestnut velouté or pear, banana and clementine juice compote. It's up to you to try them all and discover your baby's tastes!
Little jars to go, thanks to the Élhée bottle seal
When it comes to baby food jars, you need a container. In glass or plastic, these individual doses can usually be frozen and transported, with fingers crossed that they don't break or spill.
At Élhée, we imagined something different. Another container format , flexible, unbreakable, healthy and 100% airtight. Yes, if we tell you thatyour baby's bottle can be transformed into a potty whenever you want, effortlessly, do you believe us? But the magic is right there, right in front of you, discreetly delivered with your BibRonds packaging: themedical-grade silicone seal.
Prepare your baby's purée, fill the BibRond, place the lid on the neck, screw on the clamping ring (having first removed the teat) and you're ready to go!
You can take your baby's entire meal with you wherever you go. When it's time to eat, start with the puree (you can heat BibRond in the microwave or put it in the freezer if you need to), then rinse the bottle with a little water before refilling it with milk. (Don't worry if the puree [especially carrot or pumpkin puree] has slightly colored your bottle - this is normal and in no way affects its quality).
Thanks to the BibRond lid, you're one step closer to the luxury of an all-in-one feeding bottle, designed for drinking, eating and baby's happiness.
IN SUMMARY
Which vegetable mix for baby?
Before 6 months, at the start of dietary diversification, introduce your baby to just one vegetable per meal. After 6 months, try a mix of vegetables, such as potatoes and carrots, or peas, sweet potato and pumpkin, or zucchini and apple.
How to give your baby his 1st purées?
To get off to a good start with baby food, start by preparing very small quantities of purée for your baby, around two or three spoonfuls, as a snack. Choose a finely ground vegetable and offer it to your child for a few days, until he gets used to the change.
When should you feed your baby solid food in the evening?
Up to the age of 6 months, a milk-only diet is just right for your baby. To find out when to feed him solid food in the evening, observe him. If he's interested in what's on your plate, it may be time to try a supplement. Generally speaking, the first evening solid foods are tasted around 8 months of age.
