The baby grows pretty quickly, and soon it's time to introduce the first complementary foods . However, many mothers are not ready for this, and often do not know how to cook (cook) the porridge for the first time with their own hands, and which one should be used: rice or buckwheat?
What kind of porridge to choose?
For the first complementary feeding, it is best to use buckwheat porridge. As you know, it is very easy to digest and prepare very quickly.
How to cook porridge?
To begin with, you must thoroughly rinse the croup and dry it. Then the pure grains should be placed in a coffee grinder to turn them into a powder. This is done so that the cooked porridge has a homogeneous, without slices, consistency. Many mothers do the opposite: first boil the croup in a saucepan, and then grind it with a blender. There is no fundamental difference, so you can use both methods.
First time, the porridge for the baby must be cooked exclusively on the water, which completely excludes the possibility of developing an allergy to milk protein. If the mother wants the porridge to be more nutritious, you can add a couple of spoons of a dry formula or breast milk.
Features of preparation
Moms engaged in cooking porridge for the first complementary meal, sometimes do not know how to plant it and what it should be consistency. So, for cooking take about 5 g of cooked buckwheat flour (1 teaspoon) and diluted in 100 ml of boiled water. With this proportion, the porridge resembles soup-mashed potatoes .
Depending on how the mother will feed the baby, and the consistency is selected, that is, if you give the child a porridge with a spoon, then you can do it more intensively, and if from a bottle - it is lighter.
Any porridge used for feeding a child should be prepared solely on the stove. Use for such cases, the microwave oven is not recommended, because of the possible negative effects on your baby's body.
As for salt, it is not recommended to add it to children, so as not to make the child addictive to this or that taste.
As you can see from the recipes, you can prepare the porridge for the first complementary meal yourself. At the same time, a woman will not spend much time and will save her money. Moreover, she can be assured of 100% of the fact that the cooked kasha contains ingredients that are extremely beneficial to the baby, and there are no impurities and additives in it.