Mashed potatoes for the first meal
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Most often the first solid foods for babies are made of hypoallergenic vegetables, ie those for which children usually do not experience an allergic reaction.
It is better to start to enter into the diet of a child with 8 months. Starting a vegetable lure better with decoctions, and then move on to the mashed potatoes and a variety of soups.
How to cook potatoes for a first meal
1. Before cooking potatoes to soak for a few hours in cold water. This will remove the starch and nitrates.
2. Cook potatoes for feeding better in "uniform" - because of this will retain more nutrients.
3. Ready potatoes are peeled and ground into mush.
4. The puree can add a little breast milk and a few drops of vegetable oil.
Mashed potatoes for the first feeding / istockphoto.com
Due to the large amount of starch potato mash is better to give the kids do not often 2-3 times a week. For each feeding it is necessary to prepare a new batch of mashed potatoes, as with prolonged storage of all their beneficial properties are lost.
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