Which organic baby cereal do you like best?
Sep 05, 2010 in
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I have used Earth’s Best so far and my husband just picked up the Happy Bellies brand to try and my dd ate it. I see there’s a Gerber organic cereal now. Which ones have you tried and does your dd/ds like it?
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3 comments
lesley **due 4/7/2010** on September 5, 2010 at 2:01 pm
i plan on making my own baby food, cereal included. i got this off of a baby website
A common first food is rice cereal. Sure, you can buy boxed cereal, but it can be expensive and may have been on the supermarket shelf for longer than your baby has been alive, plus it might contain unwanted additives and preservatives. And making your own is easy and cheap. Take half a cup of uncooked brown rice (preferably organic), pour it into the blender and grind it to a powder. Put the ground rice in a pot, mix it thoroughly with enough filtered water to make a thin paste, and cook, stirring constantly, on a low heat until it has a nice, creamy consistency. Add more water if it thickens too much — it should look like cooked oatmeal. To serve, put a few teaspoons of the cereal in a bowl and mix in enough breast milk or formula to thin it out — and so the taste won’t be entirely foreign to your baby. And remember, children react differently to first foods. If yours refuses her first spoonfuls of cereal, keep adding breast milk or formula until the cereal is just a shade thicker than the milk, then try again. There’s no exact recipe here, just trial and error.
of course you can get all organic ingredients if you want to.
the cereals you buy in the store are just starch, and you body treats them as sugar and stores it as fat. a baby doesnt need that. when you make the cereal from brown rice they are actually getting some nutritional value from it.
☆**•¸Love my lil Girl!¸•**☆ on September 5, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Honestly their is no real purpose to the Oatmeal’s and Cereals.. they don’t contain anything they are just there for the purpose of teaching your little one how to eat from a spoon.. I did Gerber Organic for less than a week and had her try some organic butternut squash and she loved it! Now we home make avocado, butternut squash, and sweet potato purees for her to eat.. that’s better than any store bought organic food any day..
To answer your question she preferred Gerber cereal over Earth’s Best.. but if baby is doing good on the cereal go ahead and try some number 1 foods.
C J on September 5, 2010 at 2:01 pm
The only purchased cereal my kids liked was Earths Best. I think this is mainly because it is closest to the main cereal I gave them, which is rice cereal I made at home.