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mountaingoat 
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Posted: 02 April 2009 at 8:51am |
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How early can you start adding spices and herbs to baby's food?
I know sugar and salt are not recommended,but I would like babygoat to be exposed to other different flavours from a young age. When I'm cooking for my husband and I, I use stuff like cinnamon, cumin, coriander, ginger, garlic, basil, oregano, turmeric, paprika, caraway seeds etc. quite often.
Any thoughts would be appreciated!
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angel4
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Posted: 02 April 2009 at 9:06am |
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Henry pretty much eats what we eat although we don't use a lot of spices because my stomach can't handle them. He eats the same meals as us mostly. When did you start him on solids? I would wait until hes been on them a few months before doing anything with heaps of flavour. He will get used to it pretty quick. But id be worried about upsetting their lil tummies.
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fire_engine
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Posted: 02 April 2009 at 10:06am |
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I'm starting to do it now cos I want him exposed to a range of flavours at an early age.
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LeahandJoel
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Posted: 02 April 2009 at 2:54pm |
Joels had curry powder and garlic in his food so far...in saying that though he eats anything so didn't think we would have an issue. If I had more imagination I would put other things in but I never think of them.
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mountaingoat
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Posted: 07 April 2009 at 3:37pm |
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Thanks for the feedback. She has been on and off solids since 4 1/2 months but only once a day and we have been gradually increasing the amount. She's certainly had a good variety of first foods.
I got a baby and toddler cookbook from the library to get inspired, and there was one suggestion of potato, pea and mint puree ... it used fresh mint and I have tried that with her and she really likes it. So maybe I will get her onto the garlic and spices once she starts eating meat (we plan to do that from 7 months).
Thanks again.
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busyissy
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Posted: 08 April 2009 at 12:45pm |
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We used spices from about 7-8mth with Dom but we were just careful not to use too much, after all babies have a lot more taste buds than we do! I used garlic and herbs before I used the more earthy spices like cumin and corriander.
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Adding spices to baby’s food
