West Indian baby Food

Question

Calling all West Indian and Indian mothers - My daughter is now 8 months old and I'm really struggling to cook food that is the same as ours. I don't add salt to our food, but I do use chicken stock, and I don'tg know how to season our food before and during cooking without adding the stock! I know that babies aren't meant to have any added salt, not even chicken stock. I don't add a huge amount but whenever I try making her food without a bit of stock it tastes so bland and awful and she doesn't really enjoy it either. I have tried buying low salt stocks and they taste awful, so they were no good anywa!. I might try Lo-Salt as an option, but I'm not sure whether babies can have this either. So my question is - do you cook as normal and give the baby a bit of what you have, or stick with the bland food?

Answer 1

i'm jamaican :)

but umm my mom used to bake the sweet potato and mash it up and give me some of that  or use gound chicken cook it up with no veg just some seasoning *low sodium* with some sticky rice and grind it up a bit and feed me with it! i don't have a baby so i can't remember what it tastes like lol  

Answer 2

Depends where you are and what is available for you to get.  My son (a year next month) has been (since eating stage) on mashed breadfruit, dasheen, sweet potatoes, pumpkin (his favourite)...any root veg really.  As for sauces / gravy - I do not really cook with salt but as long as I dont put hot pepper in it I will give it to him.  Make sure no peas yet as that just comes out the other side.  (honestly thro - if you have a blender just blend exactly what you eat - take the babies out before you salt it)

Answer 3

i am not west indian (but YUM west indian food is good) but i cook normally and give my baby some of what i eat (and i cook a variety of food such as: enchiladas, burritos, falafel, chick pea and chicken curry, lasagna, stuffed shells, all kinds of seafood, rice and beans, etc) , i also tend to cook very spicy.

my 7 month old gets some of what i eat and enjoys it.  i use chicken stock when i need it.