What she has been trying for the first time this month:
- Chia Seed - A super nutritious seed that I just discovered while reading up the ingredients on a Happy Baby food pouch. It has benefits such as helping to lose weight and balancing blood sugar level, but there are others more relevant to a baby. The omega-3s in chia seed is more than salmon (by weight), and these seeds are very high in antioxidants. Unlike flax seeds which I had added into Ian's diet when he was a baby, chia seeds do not turn rancid that easily and can store for much longer! I do not make chia gel for Isabelle. Instead, I simply sprinkle some on top of her cereal or porridge.
- Purple Sweet Potato - An "exotic-looking" variation of the normal sweet potatoes that I usually get to see in wet markets. I stumbled across this in a Sheng Siong supermarket while waiting for Ian's holiday art class to end. It was a good thing that I bought one of those, as I had not had the luck to see it again elsewhere. Isabelle appeared to love this, as she always finished the porridge whenever I added a cube in it.
- Cherries
- Kiwi
I have also been adding a breakfast meal to her diet as she neared her birthday (she normally had only milk), since her appetite seemed to have increased. I would add a food pouch or half of it to cereal, as she had been rejecting the taste of pure cereal. Otherwise, if I had a ripe avocado on hand, I would blend it with mashed tofu. She had also rejected blended avocado with only cereal, unless I added mashed tofu. I wondered if it was because she didn't like a very smooth texture, but preferred to have something to chew on?
Anyway, as she neared her first birthday, we could be a bit more relaxed on her food and let her try more things off our plate.
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