{"id":2280,"date":"2012-03-17T07:29:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T12:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2012-03-17T07:29:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T12:29:12","slug":"making-baby-food-brown-rice-cereal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=2280","title":{"rendered":"Making Baby Food: Brown Rice Cereal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So, eventually Emil will eat real food. Right now, at nearly 7 months, he still prefers breastfeeding and that is totally normal and fine by me. I see other babies his age eating Cheerios (!) and I have to remind myself that he is getting everything he needs and there is no rush to this process. He tastes a finger dipped in just about everything I eat, but that is about as far as he lets it go. A baby-sized spoonful of food gets pushed back out of his mouth or he gags. But we are continuing to experiment, and this brings me to the reason for this post.<\/p>\n

A while back, my awesome and very generous Aunt Barbara and Uncle Steve sent us this great gift- the Baby Bullet<\/a>, which makes baby food preparation extremely easy (and even fun!). I have been dying to try it, so last night, the boys and I whipped up our first batches of baby food. We started with a very ripe pear, then moved on to brown rice cereal, which is what we will share with you today.\"DSC_0004\"<\/p>\n

We started with 1\/4 cup organic short grain brown rice, uncooked. If you don’t have this device, try a milling blade in your blender, or use a clean coffee grinder.\u00a0\"DSC_0005\"<\/p>\n

Place the 1\/4 cup rice onto the bullet and press down hard<\/em>\u00a0to mill into what looks like rice flour.\"DSC_0009\"<\/p>\n

Pressing hard. Really hard.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Also pressing really hard.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Pressing hard together!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Grind rice until it is a powdery texture. This will help it cook a lot faster, and will alleviate the need to mash or blend the cooked rice before giving it to baby.<\/p>\n

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Pour ground rice into a pot that has a tight-fitting lid.<\/p>\n

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Add 2 cups water,<\/p>\n

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Then stir. Cover and bring pot to boil, then reduce heat, stir, re-cover, and cook on low for 20 minutes.<\/p>\n

Once cool, transfer to small serving cups (the Baby Bullet uses all BPA-free plastic) and store in refrigerator until ready to serve (best to use within 3 days or freeze).<\/p>\n

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It is so easy to make a homemade porridge that is extremely healthy! The rice cereal you buy in the grocery store is usually from white rice so it lacks the nutrients and protein that brown rice has. I think next time I am in the mood for some cream of wheat for breakfast, I will make this for myself instead, sweetened with a little maple syrup.<\/p>\n

Thanks, Barb and Steve! I can tell we will be getting a lot of use out of this great gift! And I hope everyone enjoys a wonderful weekend and some beautiful spring weather!<\/p>\n

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So, eventually Emil will eat real food. Right now, at nearly 7 months, he still prefers breastfeeding and that is totally normal and fine by me. I see other babies his age eating Cheerios (!) and I have to remind myself that he is getting everything he needs and there is no rush to this … Continue reading “Making Baby Food: Brown Rice Cereal”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[117,101,171],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-baby-food","tag-emil","tag-yummy-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions\/2297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}