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rachelsea 
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Posted: 10 August 2009 at 3:58pm |
I bought some mince and chicken to make up and freeze for when Chelsea is 6 months old (she has started having fruit and veges already). But I've heard two different ways of doing it! The Plunket nurse said to cook up the meat, and just freeze the juice after it's cooked and discard the meat. But the Karitane nurse said to puree up everything (meat and juice) and freeze that! What do other people do? I don't want to do it wrong 
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Bizzy
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Posted: 10 August 2009 at 4:00pm |
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i never gave my babies meat at that age, if i did it was from a can... i waited till they didnt need it pureed by that stage. except for eden who who did baby-led weaning with.
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Posted: 10 August 2009 at 4:04pm |
I didn't think they would want meat at that age either but the chart I was given by Plunket says mince and chicken are stage 1 foods, so thought I should give it to her! Eek now I'm even more confused 
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Posted: 10 August 2009 at 4:11pm |
Maybe just trying pureeing all of it and see what happens?
We were lazy with DS and didnt make his food until he was about 10 months old 
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Posted: 10 August 2009 at 4:38pm |
I only make my own veges/fruit etc
If dd has meat its from a can 
I thought you just pureed the actual meat though
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Posted: 10 August 2009 at 4:54pm |
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We usually cook a small casserole on the stove top (beef or chicken and veges) and puree it with a wizz stick.
I haven't actually frozen any purees. I just buy the meat from the butcher and cut it up into meal size bits for bubs, then freeze.
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Posted: 10 August 2009 at 5:22pm |
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Hollie was having pureed frozen meat by 7 months. (She wasn't eaten it frozen.....you know what I mean :S)
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Posted: 10 August 2009 at 5:36pm |
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I gave my daughter meat from 6 months, I never pureed it, I just boiled a fine mince up with a little bit of carrot or pumpkin in it and froze that.
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Posted: 10 August 2009 at 6:20pm |
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My two didn't really start having red meat until recently. They have had fresh fish at least twice a week since they were around 7 months old though. Its a really good one because it practically melts in your mouth so you don't really need teeth and it's so super good for you. It's still a firm fav with H & E. They have had chicken since around 10 months as they had heaps of teeth then.
We kept up their iron with lots of iron rich vege.
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Posted: 10 August 2009 at 7:07pm |
I make the majority of C's food - including when he eats meat - I just make up batches of chicken casserole, beef casserole, mince & veges and "puree" with a stick blender (you can leave it quite textured) and then freeze in individual portions - meat and all 
C has never had meat on its own apart from when he's had some meat off the BBQ (v recently) so I don't puree and freeze *just* meat, but that doesn't mean you can't
You can't really go wrong hun, just go with whichever advice suits your lifestyle best (I'd wait till 6 months though)
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Posted: 10 August 2009 at 8:52pm |
Thanks everyone Yeah when I feed them to her I will defrost some veges to go with it, won't just give her meat by itself! And I won't introduce it for a few more weeks yet
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Posted: 11 August 2009 at 10:03am |
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When I started Eva on solids my PN asked if I had given meat so I decided to make some up and gave it to her.
I fried onion and then pieces of chicken, added water and used a stick mixer to puree it. Then froze it in icecubes. I did the same with mince.
Then I take it out of the freezer and cook it until it is boiling (add more water) and then add veges to it.
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Posted: 11 August 2009 at 1:39pm |
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Trying to remember what I did as I made all my kids food. Thats right each week I would buy some stirfry beef (or lamb or chicken depending what was on special) and boil it up for ages. Then I pureed the whole thing (water and meat) in a food processor as I find those stick mixers didn't mash it up enough. I'd give them one ice cube of meat with maybe four of veges.
I think I eventually started freezing it with the veges and kept it in muffin tins so each 'muffin' was a meal.
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Making meat purees
