Porridge for Babies

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My children used to love porridge for breakfast. Not only does it taste great, it is also packed full of nutritious ingredients. Oats help stabilise blood sugar and give long lasting energy. Dried apricots are a good source of betacarotene, iron and also contain fibre.

In this porridge recipe for babies I've used apricots which is healthy.

 

Porridge

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Ingredients

150ml (5 fl oz) milk
15g (1/2oz) porridge oats
6 ready to eat dried apricots, chopped
1 large ripe pear, peeled, cored and cut into pieces

  

Method

Put the milk, porridge oats and chopped apricots in a small saucepan, bring to the boil and then simmer, stirring occasionally for 3 minutes. Puree together with the chopped pear in a hand blender.

 

Information

Suitable for freezing
MAKES 4 PORTIONS
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shazzy83
wrote on 2 Feb, 2012.

hi was wondering can you not use the formula milk to make the porridge. i have used formula in other recipes for making example the cheese sauce is this not right.thanks

 
moloney01@hotmail.com
wrote on 7 Feb, 2013.

I've been using formula to make porridge as my baby has a milk allergy. It looks fine and he seems to like it!

 
mom-to-nine
wrote on 27 Sep, 2010.

Hi how long can you keep this in the freezer for, im trying to get stocked up for when my baby is ready to be weaned, and this is the first time i am trying my own food for my baby, i normally buy the ready made baby foods from the freezer.

 
BeanyBabe
wrote on 24 Apr, 2009.

Whole cow's milk can be used for cooking or mixing with food for babies 6-12 months but it must not be given as baby's main milk source until 1 year old.
As for substituting fruits I'm sure you can, but just be careful with the skins on dried fruits, they're best processed using a mouli first to separate the skins as these can be difficult for baby to digest.

 
coalmag
wrote on 21 Apr, 2009.

What milk should be used? Full cream regular milk? or formula or breastmilk?

 
pow1125
wrote on 21 Mar, 2009.

I'm a little confused. I thought that we can't give a baby less than a year old whole milk? And you can't cook breastmilk or formula. Can I cook the oats first with water and then add breastmilk or formula?

 
lucyanne21
wrote on 9 Mar, 2009.

or could i replace the apricots for raisins?

 
echa
wrote on 26 Feb, 2009.

Can I replce the apricots with dates?