Mushrooms: How to Offer Mushrooms Safely to Babies
Feb 1, 2021
Explore the surprising nutritional benefits of mushrooms for babies! Discover how to safely introduce various mushroom varieties, from portobello strips to enoki and maitake. Learn innovative recipes like savory risottos and egg cups that make mealtime fun. Understand the blend trend for mixing ground meats with finely chopped mushrooms, enhancing flavors and textures. Plus, get tips on engaging toddlers with creative projects centered around these unique foods!
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Mushrooms as Vitamin D Source
Mushrooms are one of the only non-animal natural sources of vitamin D in the diet.
Vitamin D is essential for babies' bones to absorb calcium for healthy growth.
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Babies Embrace Mushrooms Early
Babies are more open to trying many foods between six to eighteen months.
Early introduction and repetition of mushrooms can create lifelong mushroom lovers.
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Cook Mushrooms for Safety
Always cook mushrooms before offering to babies to improve safety and flavor.
Raw mushrooms are dry and mealy, posing a choking hazard for infants.
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#97 Babies can eat so many more foods than we give them credit for...like mushrooms! Mushrooms are one of those foods that adults love to hate, but babies...babies will eat anything, including mushrooms! In this episode we’ll take a look at how to feed mushrooms safely to your baby for baby-led weaning.
Mushrooms are a surprising source of nutrition, not to mention a unique taste and texture experience for your baby. In this episode I’m sharing a number of ways to prepare mushrooms and mushroom recipes that work well for baby-led weaning.
Listen to this episode to learn:
Portobello strips - you can grill a portobello, I like to lather it in olive oil and then add balsamic vinegar, get it nice & soft and cut into strips and make sure it passes the squish test before offering to your baby.
The blend trend - finely chopped mushrooms combine half and half with your favorite ground meat like beef or bison or turkey or chicken. You can put this in burgers or tacos or anywhere else you would use ground meat, but filled halfway with mushrooms.
Sautee - particularly like enoki, beech and maitake & royal trumpet mushrooms - these are longer sizes babies can pick up. They have a handle for a stem and go great in some butter or olive oil.
Risotto - mushrooms go great in risotto, you can make it with any short grain rice such as sushi rice (calrose rice) or the traditional way, with arborio. Also any gratin with a whole grain you can always add mushrooms too as well.
Omelettes - egg cups or omelettes with mushrooms work great for BLW. Eggs are a potentially allergenic food so you want to make sure the baby has had eggs a number of times without reaction before trying this.
Episode 33 Salt: 3 Easy Ways to Minimize Sodium for Your Baby is here
Episode 75 Canned Foods that CAN Work for Baby-Led Weaning is here
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