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Baby Food Around the World: What Baby's First Foods are Around the Wor

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Baby Food Around the World

Baby's Most Common "First Food" by Country

Did you know that baby food looks, feels and tastes different all around the world?

It’s true: in America, certain things probably come to mind when we think of “baby food” (boxes of rice cereal, baby food jars, peas, carrots…), but feeding babies is a cultural script. Much like so many other parenting norms and trends, what’s “normal” in one place may be bizarre in another, and vice versa.

Around the world, it’s more common that baby’s first foods actually reflect any given culture’s native cuisine. In fact, the very concept of separate “baby foods” or “kid foods” doesn’t really exist in many other cultures, and children — including babies — are raised to eat what their families eat. As Dr. Alan Greene explains it: “in many cultures around the world, babies simply eat a gentler version of whatever their parents are eating. stands in stark contrast to norms in the U.S., where we typically introduce babies first to, well, foods no one actually (wants to) eat (have youtried rice cereal and jarred peas???). And while most of our first foods for babies are bland and lacking in flavor, texture and nutrients, many first foods around the world expose babies right away to the flavors and tastes that are central to their ways of eating.

For example, recommendations in Germany suggest starting out with a meat-veggie-potato puree; in Japan, parents offer their babies rice, fish, and pickled vegetables; in France, diverse vegetables are at the center of babies’ plates; in Kenya, where vitamin A deficiency is a common problem, sweet potatoes (packed with vitamin A) are a classic first food.

This is all cute and fun (really, it is — check out the chart below for a little tour!), but it also speaks to a broader predicament: the first months and years of eating solid foods are crucial for establishing healthy eating habits and flavor/taste preferences. Other cultures have figured this out, andthey feed their children how they want them to eat right from the get-go (and their children, generally speaking, grow up to prefer and enjoy traditional dishes and more healthful eating practices). In comparison, the traditional American approach to starting solids is laying the foundation forless healthy, diverse and flavorful preferences.

It’s not ideal…

A point: babies don’t need to eat “special foods” — and they can benefit SO greatly from early and frequent exposure to a wide variety of fresh, flavorful foods. Ideally, they’re eating the same healthy foods we parents are eating ourselves. (For more on how parents influence baby’s eating, read here.)

The distinctly American approach toward starting solids stems from many factors (not least of which include formal medical recommendations from the AAP and decades of cultural conventions favoring processed foods), but thankfully we’re starting to see some newfound appreciation for the importance of these first experiences with eating — because the early years offer a window of opportunity to lay the foundation for healthy eating.

We at Amara know all this and are dedicated to bringing families first foods that prep babies for flavorful, healthful eating right away. Our babies and children all deserve to eat the same nutritious, delicious and diverse foods we hope they’ll love to eat as they grow up; and all of our organic baby food blends are made to deliver just that. Amara baby food offers the same bright flavors, varying textures, and full nutrient profile of traditional homemade foods without sacrificing convenience or breaking the bank. It’sreal food for babies — not “baby food” — and it’s changing our children’s palates one plate at a time. Simply add water or breast milk, mix and serve! Click to learn more. 😊

Check out these traditional first dishes for babies from around the world:

Country/ Region	Most Common First Food for Babies
China	Xifan, a rice porridge, paired with mashed fruits, soft vegetables, tofu, seaweed, eggs or fish
Japan	Rice cereal and radish; miso soup; rice porridge served with veggies and dried fish
India	Cracked wheat porridge followed by khichdi, a mushy rice-lentil-vegetable dish often spiced with cumin, coriander, cinnamon or mint
Middle East	Hummus and baba ganoush
Mexico	Rice, beans, and soups — sometimes topped with seasonings such as lime or chili powder; fresh fruits like papaya and avocado
South Africa	Corn porridge and fish
Thailand	Khao tom (rice soup)
Germany	Pureed potatoes, vegetables, and/or meats
United Kingdom	Rice cereal, pureed vegetables, fruit
Vietnam	Brothy soups and fibrous porridges prepared with fish, meat, or vegetables
France	Vegetables(!) like leeks, spinach, endive, or beets, as well as soups and fine cheeses

https://theconversation. com/parenting-practices-around-the-world-are-diverse-and-not-all-about-attachment-111281

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-babies-eat-around-th_b_4338355

https://time.com/what-kids-eat-around-the-world-in-one-week/

https://www.drgreene.com/first-foods

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Parenting_Without_Borders/kXAIDAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover

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Feasting on Romantic Comedy – Apple Sauce From the Movie Baby Boom

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This post was originally published at Novelicious. com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022.

From the opening notes of the musical score, you just know that Baby Boom is set in the 80s. It is New York in 1987. Career men and women have fast paced lives. They live to work, often from five till nine, and everything else takes second place. JC, played by Diane Keaton, is a management consultant. Her other half (Spengler from Ghostbusters) is an investment banker. They love their demanding jobs. (But do they love each other?)

JC's boss wants to make her partner. Though he expresses concerns that JC is going to settle down and want children. But oh no, JC says, she absolutely does not. Her boss makes the point that men can have it all (despite him later admitting he has no idea how many grandchildren he has). Women, he says, can't. But I don't want it all, says JC insistently.

Then she inherits a baby from some long lost relative in England.

Her boss then demonstrates that he was right and women cannot have it all. Largely because he and his male colleagues cannot and will not tolerate the fact that JC has had a child foisted on her with no say in the matter. And a male subordinate takes the chance, whilst JC's life is in freefall, to stick the boot in and nick her job. But I digress.

JC's priorities change but she is still giving as much as she can to both work and baby. Then a major account (that she won) is taken from her. All because she is looking after an orphan. She leaves the company and buys a house in Vermont with acres of land and a wonderful orchard. The house has one thing after another wrong with it. With no money left she starts selling baby apple sauce to recoup some of her expenditure. And with her business savvy brain, her business, Country Baby, specialising in gourmet baby food, starts to take off.

It comes around full circle when the account she used to manage wants to buy her out.

Re-watching this film last night, after having children of my own, was stressful. Even my husband felt stressed. How JC holds the baby, attempts to put on a nappy with duct tape, feeding her linguine with tomato sauce on a pottery plate then being surprised when the baby throws it all up the walls, all made me want to throw linguine up the walls. But I loved what JC did after moving to the country. Instead of giving up she made the most of something she had in abundance. A business savvy brain and apples. Bushels and bushels of apples. And so she found a gap in the market.

Right now it is apple season. We have a fantastic array of apples in this country. In my kitchen at this very moment I have one sharp but sweet sunrise, one bramley cooking apple (my apple trees are only two years old!), plus a bowl of russets and a plentiful supply of something I cannot identify! Many of you must know someone with an apple tree with more fruit than they know what to do with. If you do, grab a bagful, and make something like JC that will delight throughout the winter months. If you go to the supermarket buy British. We have wonderful apples in this country.

Recipe for Apple Sauce

Equipment

Heavy based pan, jam jar

Ingredients

Apples

Sugar (to taste)

Nutmeg

Butter

Method

Peel and core apples.
Chop and place in heavy based pan and put over a low heat with lid on. Cut the eating apples into much smaller pieces. Cooking apples will turn into a lovely apple mush whereas eating apples will retain their shape. (I used my large bramley along with a couple of russets and another eating apple from my neighbour's tree. This made one jar of sauce.) Chopping the eating apples small will mean you don't have large chunks coming out the jar.
Wash out jam jar, including lid. Sterilise both with boiling water, drain on kitchen paper then place the glass jar only (not lid) into the oven on 150 fan for ten minutes.
Once the apples have cooked – the cooking apple will be mush – add sugar to your desired taste plus a small knob of butter and a pinch of nutmeg (to taste).
Take the jar out of the oven and pour the sauce straight in.
Place lid on carefully as jar will be very hot.
Once cooled tighten lid and store in cool place.
Serve with pork or use in crumbles, pies etc.

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