Feeding Jo Ern

Mum-mum time... what is everyone else eating?

A post now on a topic dear to me... food. :)  Jo Ern's approximate feeding schedule after waking up is milk, milk, food, milk, food, milk.  Timing is about 2-3 hours apart, more if she has a nap.  That takes her to evening, then it's milk and usually some fruit before bedtime.  She wakes up once (ok sometimes twice) in the night for milk. 

She doesn't quite like milk now but luckily we can just add unfinished milk into the next solids feed.  Not going to waste any breastmilk!  (Unfinished formula milk must be thrown away)

Food-wise now.  I started with steaming baby-friendly food, puree-ing and freezing into cubes.  Then I mix and match the protein, carbo and veggie cubes for the day.  Now that she eats more, the required cubes don't fit into my Avent cups, what with all the spaces in between the cubes.  So I cook porridge and freeze directly in the Avent cups.  Porridge would be rice or millet, with minced pork and assorted veggies.  But wait... very few meals are identical.  Books say variety aren't important to a baby but who says variety is bad?  :)  I still do the cubes so a meal would be basic porridge plus salmon and spinach cubes, or chicken and sweetcorn cubes, or sweet potato cubes, etc.  And her two daily meals would be different - if one is green, the other would be yellow/orange/white. 

One thing though, all this baby food processing does take time.  I used to try new recipes or bake on weekends, now that time is taken up by baby food. I don't make fixed quantities and some weekends we have places to go, so sometimes there is a glut of food and sometimes a shortage!

Protein - chicken, pork, fish, egg yolk and most recently, beef

Carbo - brown rice, potato, millet, oats, lentils, barley

Veggie - anything goes!  Most recently, onion and tomato

  

Frozen food - seen here are millet, brown rice, broccoli and pumpkin cubes

Frozen milk in one-portion servings