Tips/Recipes - Beem Baby Vital-Center User Manual

Baby Vital-Center

Tips/Recipes

Spoon feeding with supplementary food
starts between the 4th and 6th months.
Self-made tasty food is prepared quickly
and free from harmful substances if the
ingredients originate from ecological cul-
tivation. In addition, the appliance steams
the food and preserves vitamins at the
same time – healthy food right from the
very beginning.
Tips
■ Begin with a few spoonfuls of mashed
carrots between between meals and
increase the amount from day to day.
When 100 g has been reached, you
can replace the milk feed with porridge
– preferably beginning with the midday
meal.
■ Babies like sweet foods which they
are use to from breast milk. Begin sup-
plementary feeding with carrots, they
taste sweet and are also very easily
digested. Marrow, parsnips or turnip
cabbage are also suitable – however,
only one vegetable type per meal and
a maximum of 2 new vegetable types
per week.
■ In order to also make other vegetables
tasty for your child try out a previously
accepted type first.
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■ Potatoes or meat should be added to
vegetables beginning at roughly the
6th to 7th month. However: your child
must get used to the new food first.
Give the baby one new ingredient per
week. Example: mashed carrots in the
first week, add mashed potatoes in the
2nd week, add meat in the 3rd week
and then sunflower oil in the 4th week.
■ A complete supplementary diet con-
sists of around 100 g vegetables, 50
g carrots, 10 g fat and roughly 20 g of
meat 2 to 3 times a week – altogether
150 to 180 g of baby food.
■ Parallel to supplementary feeding, you
should also give the baby drinks. Make
sure that they do not contain sugar.
■ Baby food does not need spices or
flavour enhancers. Babies have a very
fine sense of taste and do not require
additional stimulation, the taste of the
different vegetable types is sufficient.
This also reduces the risk of allergic
reactions.
■ Raw vegetables, cabbage and peas
and beans are difficult to digest for ba-
bies. Be careful with tomatoes as they
can cause nappy rash.
■ After the midday meal, the other milk
feedings are gradually replaced: at first
at midday (e.g., by a fruit-grain puree),
then in the evening (e.g., milk-grain
puree) and finally in the morning.
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