Thursday, April 30, 2009

BF lowers Heart Risks

Risk lowered by 10% if the mother breastfeeds beyond 1 year!

Article:
Breastfeeding lowers heart risks for mother: study
http://news.sg.msn.com/lifestyle/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3206941

Does this mean 10% for each year? Haha - can hope right? That means my risk could even be lowered by 50 to 60%!!!!

Thursday, April 02, 2009

Grater

Ah...following from yesterday, I made more grated food.

Organic Pumpkin
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Organic Zucchini
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All in the 2oz containers and steamed in microwave for 90seconds - fast since they are already grated. So simple.
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These tasters went with JR's porridge today, for him to have some separately for taste before we mix it together with the rest of the porridge.

All fresh - just enough for today. None of these will be frozen/stored since there's only that little.

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Wasabi

A wasabi grater is super for quickly doing up a small amount of food for baby!
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(from: Daiso)

Baby already had his bowl of pureed porridge for dinner ready, but as I had a Zucchini that I wanted to have for dinner, I thought to let baby try some. I used this to grate a small section of the zucchini, put it in this little container(tiny container with lid also from Daiso), and then put this tiny container in my small microwave steamer for about 1min only since the zuchini was all minced already.
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Just only about 2 teaspoons for the baby to try. I let him have it before giving him the rest of his dinner - the porridge that I'd earlier done, lah!
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Ah, if not for this grater, it would be so troublesome just to prepare a tiny bit of food for baby. Maybe I'll do the same with the pumpkin that I have for tomorrow's dinner. ;-)

I used to do big batches of baby food & mince to freeze in cube-sizes, but Baby JR doesn't like the taste of frozen foods somehow. ;( So it's freshly-prepared food always for him.

JR also prefers his foods as natural as it comes! Like this:
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He'll eat the banana if it come straight from its jacket, but will not touch it if I mash it up in a bowl for him, or mix it with his oatmeal.
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He also likes eating sweet potato, freshly scooped from the potato itself!