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Starting from 5 or 6 months, complementary feeding is gradually introduced into the baby’s diet. It used to be that applesauce is perfect for this. However, some kids refuse vegetable puree after having tasted fruit. Therefore, at first, babies are accustomed to vegetables, and only then apples and other sweet fruits are added.
Many parents buy ready-made foods in jars, although almost everyone knows how to make applesauce for babies.
Buy or cook
Buy, of course, easier. The time of parents is saved, it is saved due to the health of the baby. Yes, some manufacturers do not always accurately write on the label that is added to the jar. And you yourself have seen, from which apples mashed potatoes on the plant? Personally, I saw that representatives of one of the most famous baby food plants in Russia came to buy in our garden enterprise.Perhaps these fruits were intended for something else, but that plant, except for children's purees, produces nothing.
Maybe now more strict quality control and high fines. But then, after all I saw, for myself personally, I firmly decided to make applesauce on my own.
10 minutes spent on cooking is much more valuable for the child than your dubious "savings". Moreover, for the price of one jar, you can buy 5-6 good-sized apples of medium size and make much more useful tasty stuff out of them. Well, who is saving now? You decide.
In addition, it is better for babies to give for mashing natural puree, without salt and sugar. And at the enterprises in addition to the jar they add starch for thickening, and preservatives. Is it necessary to feed the crumbs?
Even the ugliest apples from his garden are much healthier and more nutritious than canned mashed potatoes of unknown fruits. Cook yourself, do not take 10 minutes for your sun.
How to cook applesauce
The recipe is really obscenely simple, you will make more preparations. You will need a green apple and possibly filtered clean water.Fruit must be free of dents, deep scratches and other damage. Brush it thoroughly with clean running water. Next, there are two options, bake or cook.
Baking
Cooking
The method takes a little longer, only because of the pre-cleaning of the fruit. Peel necessarily removed, cut out the core. Next, the pulp is cut into small pieces. The geometric shape does not matter. In a small scoop or bowl lay out the cutting, splashing water. Quite a bit, about 50 g per fruit. Put on fire and steam for 5-7 minutes. Cool, pass through a sieve.
Blender greatly simplifies the task, but only if you are sure that you have cleaned all the bones and partitions. Otherwise, the mechanism will grind them. And such baby lure is not at all desirable.Although, well, what prevents the use of a conventional strainer? You do not need to rub 3 kilos of apples!
By the way, if you do not want to then wash the sieve or grater, then simply boil the whole apple. And then proceed as with baked. The peel is easily removed, the core is removed entirely. A few fork movements and fine applesauce on a plate.
Feeding for the future? Easily!
Shopping apples are absolutely unsuitable for feeding babies. And in the winter homemade apples on the shelves are not found. What should those parents whose baby will have to try first feeding in the cold season or in early spring do? Take care in advance, that's what. How to make applesauce for the baby for the winter? Yes, very simple! You will need:
- green apples, 2 kg
- clear water, 1 l
- granulated sugar, 2 tbsp. l
Fruits are carefully washed, cleaned from the skin and seeds. Cut into pieces of arbitrary shape, put in a saucepan. Add sugar and water, bring to a boil. Cook on medium heat for 12 minutes. Then rubbed through a sieve or mashed with an immersion blender. Boil another 12 minutes. Remove from heat and lay out in small jars.Cork tight lids, wrapped in a towel or blanket. After cooling, stored in a refrigerator or cellar.
Everything is simple, fast and you can meet the winter fully armed. If parents fear that sugar is present in such a billet, then in vain. Its share is so small that the total amount of mass will not bring any harm.
Council You can cook such mashed potatoes and absolutely no sugar. Only have to store it strictly in the refrigerator to exclude fermentation or souring.
What apples to choose
Of course it's best to take your own fruit. So you will be sure of the quality of the finished product. Only by all means green or yellow varieties. From them almost never allergies. But fruits with a red or pink tinge of the skin sometimes sin this.
But in any case, do not buy imported fruits, especially if there is no season for them. These apples are stored for months. To do this, they are treated with special preparations and produce genetically modified varieties. Do not rush to push the baby chemical filth, he still has time to sip her plenty in my life.
Some parents think that an apple from their garden is too sour for babies. And supposedly he refuses to eat such mashed potatoes. Nonsense! Reason logically. A child has eaten the same thing since birth, mother's milk or a special mixture. And then a completely different taste, aroma, texture. If he didn’t try sugar before feeding, and this is unlikely (normal parents don’t give babies absolutely sweetness), then there will not be an apple to eat the toddler.
When you gave the baby any vegetable puree to apple, you probably saw how he reaches for a spoon? So he is interested in new tastes. Feel free to use sourish apples. Only, of course, not quite "tear out the eye."
Useful recommendations
- Based on apple food, you can create multicomponent purees, gradually adding other ingredients. For example, children rarely like carrots or pumpkins. But after all, they are very useful, contain many vitamins, fiber, nutrients. Often, an attempt to feed the child ends with spitting, stained with veils and inflated mother's nerves. Try adding vegetables to apples a bit. You'll see, things will go smoothly.Moreover, such a basis is suitable for almost all fruits, vegetables, cream and cottage cheese.
- How to calculate the daily dose of applesauce? The age in months is increased tenfold. For example, a baby is 11 months old. So per day he should eat no more than 110 g of fruit complementary foods.
- By the way, you need to start giving it the same way as any other. First, literally a quarter of a teaspoon. Then, for a day or two, they carefully watch the baby. At any slightest deviation (the color of the skin has changed, the chair has deteriorated, the tummy has swollen, the temperature has appeared), apples are stopped to give. The next time you can try no earlier than 3 weeks. And even then, if the baby's condition returned to normal. But such a reaction to green apples is extremely rare.
- If the fruits themselves are sweet and juicy, you can add less water during cooking. Just watch carefully so that the mash doesn't burn.
- For the first feeding, never use a raw apple! It can harm a tender stomach of a baby with a high concentration of acids. But thermally treated, on the contrary, normalizes stools and improves intestinal motility.
- If your child already ate and refuses to eat applesauce, then never leave for later. Better eat yourself, and the child in the future prepare a new one. And vitamins are useful to you, and karapuza will not be treated with an oxidized mass.
- It happens that after cooking the fruit is still harsh. It is not scary and depends on the variety. In this case, just boil them some more.
- In your garden, choose an apple with a wormhole. Proven, it is 100% organic fruit. Naturally, during cooking, the damage is removed.
How to make applesauce for babies? Easy and simple even for busy parents. And if you choose sweet apples, grown personally, it is also useful.
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