Food for Ian at 7 Month 1 Week

At month 7 week 1, we introduced 3 types of commercial food:

1. Baby jarred prune
2. Canned apple juice
3. Organic tofu

Although we are trying hard to feed fresh food to Ian, we have succumbed to a baby jar - prunes. We are not sure how to prepare a 'fresh' prune puree, and hence figured that it was better just to get a jar.

Gerber Prune puree with the HB cereal

As Ian is not fond of drinking plain water, we took the suggestion from the forum to give fruit juice and then, slowly dilute it with water to get the baby to get use to the taste. However, Ian does not appear to like the juice either. We mixed some into his avocado milkshake, and the remainder went to Hubby's tummy.

Heinz apple juice

Tofu is a high protein food and is supposedly good for baby from 7 months onwards. Hence, we decided to introduce tofu for the week. We compared the normal tofu with the organic one. All the normal ones contain 2 ingredients (calcium sulphate being one of them) as coagulant, whereas the organic version contains a 'natural' coagulant. It costs double of a normal one, but we decided to give a more 'natural' food to our baby.

To prepare, cut a slice of the tofu, steam it for 10mins and blend. Although the book says that it is OK to eat it as it is, but we prefer to steam it first to kill any germs. Keep the remainder in a tub of water, in the fridge, for up to 1 week. The water has to be changed daily.

Since tofu is a rather bland food, we mixed in the jarred prune puree and the usual HB brown rice cereal. It does not look appealing to me, but Ian enjoyed every mouth of it.

To this date, Ian has tried the following food:

1. Frisocream rice cereal
2. Happybellies brown rice cereal
3. Happybellies oatmeal cereal
4. Healthy Times oatmeal cereal
5. Healthy Times barley cereal
6. Plain rice porridge
7. Organic brown rice porridge
8. Organic banana
9. Japanese sweet potato
   
10. Apple
11. Avocado
12. Mango
13. Organic pumpkin
14. Gerber prune puree
15. Heinz apple juice
16. Whitebaits (still have to test for allergy as some rashes appeared after his nanny fed him)
    
17. Tofu
18. A sip of herbal soup with wolfberries and ginseng (fed by my mom while I was not looking!)
    

Solid-feeding is fun and exciting! What should we introduce this weekend? Hmmm....