the brew*crew adventure

We fed baby S her first bites of cereal a few weeks ago, a few days before she turned six months old. She was certainly ready, and loved it! Up until this week she's only been eating cereal once a day, but I've just now started feeding her solids in the mornings as well as in the evenings sometimes too... so far she's tried pureed plums, bananas, peaches and even a bit of oat cereal, but mostly just rice cereal.

Home-made Organic Brown Rice Baby Cereal

• To make her baby cereal, I've just been putting organic short grain brown rice (which we order in bulk from here, much cheaper than HFS) through my Wonder Mill, and it comes out very finely ground, basicly as rice flour (which I keep in the freezer).
• Then I pour about 4 oz. (I was only using 2-3 oz. a month ago- she's eating more now) of either expressed mama's milk or baby apple juice into a little pot and then add a heaping Tbsp. of the milled rice flour.
• It starts out very thin, but as the liquid heats up, it thickens very quickly, and in moments I have a perfect little serving of fresh, healthy baby cereal.

Baby S enjoys sitting in her highchair chewing on wet wash rags immensely as well. Oh, and these teething feeder contraptions are ingenius (another one of the wonderful baby inventions that weren't around or I just didn't know about with N and T)! I just pop in a piece of banana or frozen peaches, and there's no chance of her choking on it. She thinks it's great, messy, tasty fun!

I did try out a recipe for teething biscuits the other day, but found that it crumbled a bit too big and she gagged on a piece, which scared me a bit. So, I froze them for later. I figure in another month or so she'll be able to handle them just fine. I altered a recipe that I found here.

Baby's Wholewheat & Rice Flour Banana Breadsticks

• 1/2 cup oil (I used 1/4 c. flax seed oil and 1/4 c. vegetable oil)
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup mashed ripe bananas (took 2 medium sized bananas)
• 1 and 3/4 cups flour (I used 1 c. ww and 3/4 c. rice flour)
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda

Combine ingredients and stir only until smooth. Pour into a greased loaf pan.
Bake at 350 degrees F for about 1 hour or until firmly set.

Cool, remove from pan, and cut into sticks. Spread sticks out on a cookie sheet and bake at 150 degrees F for 1 hour or longer until the sticks are hard and crunchy. (according to original recipe) **My oven's lowest temp. is 175 degrees F, and it took a few hours of baking for them to get crunch hard at all.** Store in a tightly covered container, freezes well.

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