Combining food for baby snacks: thought difficult but easy!

Feeding your baby each type of food can help your baby easily recognize and distinguish each taste. However, combining foods also brings new experiences, helping children eat more deliciously and excitedly. When is it possible to combine? How to combine? Consult now, mom!

Eating each dish separately will help children fully feel the taste of each type of food, but combining one dish with another will help diversify meals, make the baby more delicious and excited.

Initially, mothers can try to combine a few "benign" foods such as apples, pears, sweet potatoes to test. Then, you can try with a variety of different foods as your baby gets used to. Even if it's a paradoxical combination or hasn't tried it before, don't hesitate! In fact, compared with the taste of adults, children's tastes are often "easy" than a lot, because at this time, the baby still cannot distinguish which dish is better than which one. Most importantly, you should find out and make sure that the combination foods will match your baby's needs and age.

Note to choose dishes that suit your baby's needs and age when combining food, mom!

The "4 days wait" principle

To limit the risk of food allergies for babies, mothers should start incorporating foods they have eaten at least 1 time. If that doesn't matter, you can try incorporating a few new foods. For example, once your baby has tried apples and pumpkins, the next time she can incorporate a new kind of food. If the baby has an allergy unfortunately, we can know the culprit of this problem is in new foods. Ideally, when trying new foods, you should wait 3-4 days to check if your baby has any unpleasant problems.

Some suggestions for incorporating weaning baby food

For babies in the early stages of weaning, mothers can try the following options:

- Pumpkin and sweet potato pureed

- Pumpkin, apple and sweet potato pureed

- Green beans, apple and pear puree

- Apple Cereals: Puree apple sauce with oatmeal or rice cereal

- Pumpkin Cereals: Pumpkin puree with oats or rice cereals

Banana butter mixture: Puree avocado and banana and eat it directly or mix with cereal flour

- Apple pear mixture: puree apples and pears and eat directly. This dish will taste better when cooked

- Pumpkin banana mixture: puree pumpkin and banana

- Pumpkin, banana and apple mix: puree pumpkin, banana and apple / apple sauce

Some combinations for 8-10 and 10-12 months:

Pumpkin, sweet potato and cinnamon

- Cove beans and potatoes: Blend together beans and potatoes and add a little pear or apple sauce

- Beans stew: Mix beans with carrots and apple sauce, rice or oatmeal and yogurt

- Carrot Stew: Mix apple and carrot with rice, oats and yogurt

- Sweet potato cake: Mix sweet potato, yogurt, cereal and a little cinnamon powder and sprinkle the mixed cereal (the kind used to eat with fresh milk) on top of the cake

- Apple Cream Cake: Combine cereal, yogurt and apple sauce with a little cinnamon and crushed cereal (milk breakfast type) and sprinkle on top.

- Pumpkin cake: Puree pumpkin with cereal, yogurt with a little cinnamon and use cereal (milk breakfast type) crushed and sprinkled on top.

- Yogurt mix: mix blueberry, apple and pear together, add yogurt and crushed cereal (milk breakfast type) sprinkled on top

- Chicken or beef dinner : In addition to pureed chicken or beef, you can add apple, pumpkin, sweet potato, carrot or any vegetable that has ever been given to your baby.

Dinner with Tofu: Tofu pureed can be served with apple sauce and squash or butter and pear.

Menu for 2-year-olds: Be careful when combining food To ensure the diversity in the menu for 2-year-olds and 3-year-olds, mothers are not afraid to combine one dish with another to help children feel excited about the story. eat more. However, do you know that not all combinations are safe. A small mistake in nutrition can also harm your child's health.