Guess who’s been busy in the kitchen every weekend with the blender? T2, of course! I make her hold the hand blender, she loves it as it vibrates and makes NOISE!!! Child labour at 8 months, not bad eh? Which brings me to a very curious question. The Chinese and Korean and Japanese, have a belief that one should never refrigerate or worse, freeze any soups or porridge as it produces a lot of wind. What is the story behind this, an inquiring mind wants to know. Because as it stands, I am freezing porridge (as it is one of Tee’s many favourite food) and I sometimes freeze soups too. I haven’t noticed a surplus of wind coming out from either of us, but then again, we fart so much that it would be hard to notice the difference. Know what I mean?
In any case, what is so wrong with having wind? Is it the discomfort that we may subject a baby to? I haven’t a clue so pray tell…..
On the left is Tee’s porridge, ready to be frozen. And on the right is T2’s exact same porridge, except that it’s blended. Yuck.
Then we have the breakfast spread, blended pear or blended pear with some other fruit combination which I add to her cereals every morning. Mind you, I even freeze the fruit stock and steam it in the morning to make her cereal with some formula(since she is so skinny) and she absolutely loves this. I mean, it just doesn’t get any better than this. Fruit stock with formula, blended fresh fruit and iron-fortified organic cereal. That’s T2’s breakfast every single morning with the variation being different fruit flavours. Isn’t she a lucky girl?
Hmm…I wonder what I was fed when I was 8 months old.
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yeah..i’ve heard of the wind thing too and freezing food for kids is not good. the wind would cause discomfort in the tummy but moms in other countries have been doing this eh?
I have been freezing food for joshie since he was 7 mths old. His tummy is fine :p
my boys eat frozen food too.. Especially younger one who request different food at each meal.. I have to buy 1 whole batch of fruits and cooked it, then “mix and match”…. just the way u did it.. EASY isn’t it?! dun think got any wind prob..
I used to freeze pumpkin and other vege purees. Hard to just steam for 1 miserable portion .. but have never frozen porridge before. Her bbsitter then, forbids me from doing so.. wind, bloatedness, etc. She even said I should not stir porridge too much during the cooking process, again.. ‘foong’ wor.. so.. I just followed suit la..
btw.. Amber farts a lot too. We called her ‘the greatest farter’ !! but she eats well, was a michelin baby.
Why don’t you cook porridge in the slow cooker? I always put all the porridge ingredients in the slow cooker the night before, turn it on at 9pm and let it cook till morning.and voila, i will have a whole pot of porridge for lunch and dinner.No need to blend too cos it’ll be very smooth by morning. No hassle i promise 🙂
I’m surprised that Tee still loves porridge. My girls, including Baby hate em. Good that Tee likes porridge, easy for you – no need to crack your head to whip up fanciful meals for her 🙂
BTW, I love freezing food for Baby too but my mil thinks it’s bad!
You are a great Mum! I freeze food all the time. If anyone (esp MIL) says anything, I’ll retort with, “Then, you cook ah?”. 😛
Hi, stumbled upon your post when I was googling for: frozen porridge for babies.
People think it’s bad. People ask “why don’t you cook fresh for baby”? Hello, who doesn’t know that mum is a female, get what I mean?
G (just turned one) will be going to the nursery next month. No porridge allowed (they cook soft rice, but I don’t think G is ready for rice). I can only provide cereals. Means G will be only surviving on milk & cereals the whole day. After work, I will have no time to cook porridge for him, so the only way is to freeze porridge, then heat up a cube every evening when I pick him up. That’s the only way I could think of – to have homecooked “nutritious” porridge everyday.