Hello little foodies!
If you saw my previous post, you would have seen that I had just received the NumNum pre-spoon GOOtensil in the mail and I could not wait to use it watch Jackson use it.
There are so many options to try with it but I decided on good ol’ oatmeal. It seemed like a pretty safe food to try with it.
The first time I gave Jackson oatmeal, I used a store bought variety that I received as a freebie from a new mum pack that I got. He did not really like it at the time.
Maybe because it was earlier on when we first started solids so Jackson wasn’t interested. It was an apricot flavoured porridge mix and I used my breastmilk to make it so he would have a familiar flavour when he tried it, but he still didn’t like it.
This time I decided to make my own oatmeal.
To make baby oatmeal, I first blended some dry traditional rolled oats. Then I added water and microwaved for 20 seconds, stir, then I put it back for another 20 seconds in the microwave. You can also use milk instead of water (breastmilk, formula, cows milk, almond milk, soy milk, etc).
You want the oats-to-liquid ratio to be 1:3. I used 1TBS blended oats and 3TBS water. After it was heated and ready, I added 1/2 a mashed banana into the oatmeal and mixed it.
Jackson sure got a surprise this time when I handed him the NumNum spoon.
After he had done with what was on the spoon I dipped it into the oatmeal again before handing it back to him. It was a very slow process compared to spoon feeding him purées, but he still consumed more oatmeal than last time. Maybe because he’s older now or because the spoon made it fun.
I do plan on leaving the bowl on the highchair tray for him to help himself next time, but I will do that when I get some bowls that stick on the tray so there’s less mess.
Now all I need is some recommendations on which sticky bowls to get.
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