Making your own baby cereal at home is simpler than you might think. In just a few steps, you can make nutrient dense and toxin free baby cereal, right in your own kitchen. Intentionally choosing each and every ingredient specifically to give your baby the perfect support for their brains and bodies.
Commercial “Baby Cereal” comes from grains contaminated with heavy metals, mold, and pesticides. It’s then cooked, freeze dried, and sits on a shelf for months and months. It looses what little nutrition it has, grows more mold, and waits for unsuspecting parents to buy it.
When my firstborn was little, I was just learning about the abhorrent contamination that lurks in that baby food isle. I vowed that I would do my absolute best to fill my children’s bodies with clean, whole foods that ONLY helped their bodies and didn’t harm them in the short OR long term. Here’s how I do it!
First we have to choose our grain!
There are a few good choices of grains for your baby cereal. Organic oats (make sure they’re organic, as regular oats are extremely contaminated with pesticides and mold), quinoa, barley, and my personal favorite – Einkorn! Einkorn, a subspecies of farrow, is an ancient grain, meaning it’s been around since biblical times. It has more protein than quinoa, it has more than double the fiber of quinoa, and it has 40% of your daily iron needs! Iron becomes important to your childs diet around six months of age, because the iron stores you were born with start to run out around that time. Einkorn is also rich in vitamin b6, niacin, folate, magnesium, and zink! These are good for your little ones brain development, immune system, and much more.
What liquid will we cook our grain in?
Water is definitely not a bad choice to simmer our grains in. But, why not choose something that could pack even MORE nutrition in there? My liquid of choice for making baby food is organic and unseasoned bone broth! Bone broth will add tons more beneficial nutrition to an already healthy choice! It has protein, collagen, amino acids, and iron. It promotes good bone health, it’s good for digestion, it can promote better sleep (hello sleep deprived parents), and has anti-inflammatory properties which may help a little bit when teething comes to call! Just make sure you don’t use bone broth that has salt added, as babies kidneys aren’t quite ready for that yet.
So, without further ado, here is my method of how to make nutrient dense and toxin free baby cereal yourself!
