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For thickening fruit puree?
« on: January 13, 2006, 15:56:25 pm »
We have successfully introduced a wide range of food into Jacks ever expanding diet so we are very pleased. However I am wondering if any of you could offer any ideas for something to use to thicken the fruit puree? I always puree the fruit and then freeze it in ice cube trays, but then when they defrost the puree tends to be very thin. So far I have been using baby rice, but would be interested to hear any alternatives?
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« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2006, 21:14:38 pm »
What would happen if you just mushed the fruit rather than pureed it?  Never tried  making baby food before, but I wondered if that would work.
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« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2006, 21:14:51 pm »
What would happen if you just mushed the fruit rather than pureed it?  Never tried  making baby food before, but I wondered if that would work.
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« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2006, 21:15:09 pm »
What would happen if you just mushed the fruit rather than pureed it?  Never tried  making baby food before, but I wondered if that would work.
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Re: For thickening fruit puree?
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2006, 07:47:09 am »
Hi
I saw elsewhere on this forum that you can use rice cereal to thicken food which has gone all watery from being in the freezer.  Does that help?
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Re: For thickening fruit puree?
« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2006, 09:20:49 am »
I actually had some "feed thickener" for reflux babies from my ds#1 & i use some of that to thicken my runny stuff. althought I do also mix with rice cereal (extra nutients) & even home cooked rice - but my ds takes really lumpy food easily, never liked purees.
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Re: For thickening fruit puree?
« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2006, 12:37:21 pm »
i mainly use baby rice to thinken fruit (i find it goes very watery even when mashed) i have used some flavoured baby rice and some baby style rice pudding, all of which my dd has loved. the flavoured baby rice was her favourite though. grated apple or pear might thicken it to a certain degree but you'd proabably still need some rice as it still might be quite watery.
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Re: For thickening fruit puree?
« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2006, 18:22:33 pm »
also remembered i sometimes do fruit and custard, dd loves it!!!
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Re: For thickening fruit puree?
« Reply #8 on: January 25, 2006, 20:52:30 pm »
as an alternative i have pureed dried apricots, peaches, pears and prunes, and they always seemed to turn out thick.
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Re: For thickening fruit puree?
« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2006, 21:19:03 pm »
All baby cereals work great. Oatmeal is especially good.
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Re: For thickening fruit puree?
« Reply #10 on: January 27, 2006, 03:31:46 am »
personally i would just mix another food into it like squash or sweet potatoes.  i give andrew weird combinations of foods (like peas and pears, squash and apples).  he doesn't know those things don't go together and that way i can make anything the thickness i want.
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