Newborn Baby Care and Needs

Healthy Juice For Baby

By Najiah N

For certain reasons, it is better to serve these juices for 9 months old and up baby or depends on the baby capabilities in eating.

Milky Juice

Ingredients:

• 1 Sweet orange, take the juice only (by squeezing)
• 125 g red grape, cut in two
• 2 table spoons of formula in 200 ml of water

How to make it:

Mix everything in a blender and ready to be served.

This is for two portions.

Tropical Juice

Ingredients:

300 g of pineapple, cut in small pieces

200 g of mango, cut in small pieces

250 ml of fresh squeeze sweet orange juice

How to make it:

Put everything in a blender and the juice is ready to be served.

This juice is for two portions.

Watermelon Juice

Ingredients:

600 g of watermelon without seeds, cut in small pieces

250 ml of fresh squeeze sweet orange juice

150 g sweet star fruit

How to make it:

Mix all in a blender and then put it a baby juicer cup. Ready to be served.

This juice is for 3-4 portions.

Yoghurt and banana mix

Ingredients:

1 cavendish banana

200 ml of pineapple juice

1 table spoon of light yoghurt

How to make it:

Mix all in the blender and ready to be served.

This is for two portions.

8 Months Baby Food Recipes

By Najiah N

By the age of 8 months usually a baby is able to eat more verity of food such as cheese, egg, bean, and tofu. Here are some recipes using those ingredients.

Cheese and Tofu Mix

Ingredients:

40 g of tofu

20 g of cheddar cheese

50 g of rice

20 g of spinach/ carrot/ pumpkin

How to make it:

Soak the rice in the water for 2-3 hours. Then cook it with a glass of water until it became rice porridge. Just before it cooked add the vegetable (if you use carrot or pumpkin, because they took a while to cook, not like spinach) When it cooked, add the tofu and cheese. Mix it for few seconds and it’s all done. Then put them in the blender for softer texture or use stainless steel strainer.

Nutrition Fact:

This recipe is for 3 portions. Each portion contains more or less 120 kkal of energy, 6 g of protein, 4 g of fat, and 16 g of carbohydrate.

Strained Egg Porridge

Ingredients:

50 g of rice

750 ml of chicken stock

1 egg

20 g of spinach

How to make it:

Soak the rice in the water for 2-3 hours. Then cook it with a glass of water until it became rice porridge. Just before it cooked add the vegetable and the egg. Mix it well, and it’s done. Use the stainless steel strainer to make the porridge texture softer.

Nutrition Fact:

This recipe is for 3 portions and each portion contains more or less 110 kkal of energy, 5 g of protein, 3 g of fat, and 15 g of carbohydrate.

Red Bean Porridge

Ingredients:

20 g of rice flour (2 table spoons)

20 g of red bean 

1 tea spoon of honey

120 ml of sweet orange juice

How to make it:

Soak the red bean for 2-3 hours, then cook it in boiling water until it’s cooked and easy to crush or mush. In different pot, cook the rice flour with a half glass of water. When the rice flour is cooked, add the crushed red bean, add the honey and the sweet orange juice. Mix it well and ready to be served.

Nutrition fact:

This recipe is for 2 portions and each portion contains more or less120 kkal of energy, 4 g of protein, 0.5 g of fat, and 12 g of carbohydrate.

6 Months Infant Food Recipes

By Najiah

Other than the two examples of baby food recipes on earlier post, here are some more examples of homemade baby food recipes.

Brown Rice Milk Porridge

Ingredients:

• Make brown rice flour from 50 g of brown rice by soaking the rice with water for 2-3 hours, then dried it up, and put it in flour making machine. Or if you can find ready brown rice flour in the market you can use it.
• Make a glass of chicken stock out of chicken feet, neck, or back by boiling them in a low heat stove inside a covered saucepan for 1-2 hours.
• 2 table spoons of formula and add them with 90 ml of water or use 100 ml of breast milk.

How to make it:

• Mix the brown rice flour with the chicken stock, cook it until it’s done.
• Add the formula or the breast milk after the stove is off.
• Serve it while it’s still warm.

Nutrition Fact:

This recipe is for 2 portions, and each portion contains more or less 75 kkal of energy, 2 g of protein, 0,4 g of fat, and 17 g of carbohydrate.

Mush Potatoes

Ingredients:

• Make mush potato out of 100 g of steam potato.
• 300 ml of chicken/beef stock and add small amount of zucchini.
• 2 table spoons of formula in 160 ml of water or 160 ml of breast milk.

How to make it:

• Mix the mush potatoes, the stock, and the milk.
• Ready to be serve.

Nutrition Fact:

This recipe is for 2 portions of Mush Potato. Each portion contains more or less 64 kkal of energy, 5 g of protein, 1 g of fat, and 17 g of carbohydrate.