Monday, May 19, 2008

Cereal that she'll eat!

I heart the Parent Hacks website. Yesterday I found the following:

... a brilliant way to turn fortified baby cereal into portable snack food: My
9-month-old has zero interest in spoon feeding, ... except that he needs that
iron-fortified baby cereal... Finally I realized that if you add enough cereal,
the puree becomes a stiff dough, which you can then roll into little balls and
toss onto the high chair tray.... use regular food like refried beans, canned
pureed sweet potato, tahini, pureed simmered dried apricots, cottage cheese, and
so on for the "base." Sometimes I mix in grated cheese or wheat germ or whatever
else I think of. I make a big batch of little balls all at once, freeze them on
a plate, and then transfer them to a Ziploc bag for freezer storage; before
mealtime I pull a handful out to defrost...

http://www.parenthacks.com/2008/05/baby-cereal-bal.html

Sweetpea only ate cereal for the first two weeks, then she went on strike. She hasn't willingly touched the stuff since. Today, she ate 1/2 cup of cereal this way.

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