Tuna & Cauli Mash Baby Food Recipe
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Homemade Tuna & Cauli Mash Recipe
for Little Mashies reusable food pouches
Ingredients:
100 g Cauliflower, cut into florets
100 g Zucchini peeled, chopped coarsely
1 tbsp (20g) Grated Cheddar
Instructions:
Step 2: Add zucchini and steam a further 5 minutes.
Step 3: Add the mixture to a food processor or blender and puree together with the canned tuna and cheese. You can add breast milk, water or formula if a smoother consistency is desired.
For Baby Led Weaning or older kids
For baby led weaning we usually start with large finger sized foods from 6-9mths old. Cauliflower and Broccoli are tough because you have to be careful that the tiny florets don't break off in your baby's mouth. Personally I would choose to do these as a combo of puree and blw. I'd cook the stalk really well in long thick fingers and then with the floret ends I'd puree those and it would become a dip for the stalks. I feel like that would be the safest option for my little ones.
From 9mths in blw you would chop the cauliflower and tuna really small (smaller than bite size), this is because babies tend to swallow whole without chewing at this age. In traditional baby food this is where people start to mash instead of puree. From 12mths we start to use bite sized pieces in baby led weaning and traditional baby food recipes. My little one Lola loved grated cheese after about 14mths and it was great for her to practice picking up little pieces of food so from 12mths I wouldn't always melt the cheese in this recipe.
Beyond 18mths we move to large finger sizes for some things so that the baby can get practice biting off small pieces and chewing. In this case we would serve cauliflower florets (including the stalks) to the baby so they could grip it and chew on the ends. If you are using fresh tuna you can cut fingers and smaller pieces the same as I've described above for the cauliflower. If you are using canned tuna you cant really make fingers from that so I would puree, mash, or make teeny tiny pieces of that until around 12mths, then start to use bite sized pieces.
Why is tuna a great baby food choice?
Little Mashies reusable food pouch reviews
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