Re: advice please on homemade baby rice

[Guest guest]

I also made (and still do make) all my own stuff and found it really easy - but

must say I didn't go to the extreme of making my own ground rice!

When I was on the " rice bit " I used the Hipp organic baby rice - I found it

didn't come out as lumpy as some of the others and I think the mixing ratio was

2 liquid - 1 rice, I started with it adhering to the spoon but it would fall off

quite easily and then progressed to making it thicker, any runner and I couldn't

see the point of weaning as it was just liquid!

I would say if it doesn't stay on the spoon it's not goner stay in the mouth!

But if you woner make your own ground rice I would have thought pudding rice

would be fine, either that or some places do flaked rice

Joanne King

SAHM to Ethan - HB 29.06.00

Minute Secretary Colchester & District

[Guest guest]

>Hi, just started weaning my DS on homemade baby rice, but a bit worried

>about the consistency of it. I have decided to make all his early food

>because a. I am really bored and b. I am a strict vegetarian and dont like

>the list of additives in the baby jars.

>

>My receipe book said to use short grain rice...well you cant buy that in a

>supermarket, so I bought pudding rice...which I assume IS short grain...am I

>right?

>

>Secondly, how runny do you make it at first. I liquidised it with breast

>milk, and it was a sort of runny soupy consistency. It ran off the spoon.

>Should it be thicker? First time round he threw it all up everywhere, but

>today he ate a spoonful and was ok except terrible wind...which meant he

>grizzled all afternoon.

Baby rice is *weird* stuff - it changes consistency.

I'm a cloth nappying, yoghurt making bread baking kind of gal - but I

drew the line at making my own baby rice (I did do some

experimenting, but was not happy that the stuff was getting properly

cooked and that would cause bellyache). For the miniscule amounts for

a four month old baby it doesn't seem worth it (and far too tempting

to give too much) - not when there are a reasonable number of plain

baby rice brands on the market (or there were) (There was no way I

was going to get into any of that before six months)

I swear by bananas as a first food. I did use baby rice, but it was

always a bit of a faff making sure I'd got enough expressed milk. How

about having a nice rice pudding yourself instead? :-)

--

jennifer@...

Vaudin

[Guest guest]

> >Hi, just started weaning my DS on homemade baby rice, but a bit

worried

> >about the consistency of it. I have decided to make all his early

food

> >because a. I am really bored and b. I am a strict vegetarian and

dont like

> >the list of additives in the baby jars.<<

Why start on baby rice at all? I tried this with my DS1 and he wasn't

impressed so I went straight on to fruit and veg. With the others I

didn't even bother with the baby rice although occassionaly I would

mix it with the fruit and veg.

Lorraine

Mum to 10, Natasha 8, 5, ph 3

[Guest guest]

> >Hi, just started weaning my DS on homemade baby rice, but a bit

worried

> >about the consistency of it. I have decided to make all his early

food

> >because a. I am really bored and b. I am a strict vegetarian and

dont like

> >the list of additives in the baby jars.<<

Why start on baby rice at all? I tried this with my DS1 and he wasn't

impressed so I went straight on to fruit and veg. With the others I

didn't even bother with the baby rice although occassionaly I would

mix it with the fruit and veg.

Lorraine

Mum to 10, Natasha 8, 5, ph 3