Starting the day the night before

... or so it seems, since we had to prep this brekkie in the evening.

Cold fruit porridge

This is actually a breakfast I make for myself with various different fruit and fruit juices. The rolled oats have to be soaked in apple juice (we freshly juiced this for him, what a lucky little baby he is) over night for the fruit porridge to be nice and soft. I grate some apple into it, and add small pieces of soft pear into it. For myself I often use sultanas (or raisins), but banana is also a really nice option. Make it your own by experimenting! For some extra sweetness a tiny splash of maple syrup was added. 

Although we had soaked it over night, our little monkey wasn't too sure about having to still do a fair amount of chewing with those four teeth of his and those gummy gums. Because he has been teething and not eating all that well, we chose the way of least resistance to get the calories into him without too much fuss: add yoghurt and blend. 

Chewy

Two course breakfast

For breakfast our veggie baby got served his first "real" oats. As in, not baby rice type oats. But grown up oats. Soaked in hot water, a spoon of formula powder and some blended mango. The monkey surprisingly enough didn't mind the chewing too much and had a good amount of the porridge.

After the porridge we gave him a portion of white bread with almond nut butter.

White bread – Yes, it is refined, but apparently too much fiber isn't good. I intend to add making my own white bread to my already busy day but haven't yet found the right flour, believe it or not where we live there is just one type.

Nut butter – Nut butters are safe from six months onwards (unless there is a family history of allergies). We waited a little longer into the weaning stage and a few weeks ago we started with almond butter. It's full of good stuff: healthy fat, magnesium and manganese. Nuts are also a good source of protein.

Rolled oats – Source of selenium and manganese

Mango –  Vitamin B6, A & D

Bead with nut butter and mango oats porridge

Farmer's market and local veg shopping

A new week ahead, a new lot of veggies needed. First a trip to the farmer's market (we've already shown you photos of what it looks like in an earlier post) and then a trip to a local "fruteria".

The farmer's market was lovely as always: busy, full of colours and lovely smells, old and young locals selling their fresh and mostly organic produce. The monkey was slightly fidgety and suspected that he could do with a snack. I picked a nice juicy not too big tomato for him and went to pay for it. The lady looked at the tomato, at me, then at the monkey and didn't want payment. In fact she reached over to a box of black tomatoes and gave us two: "Try these, they are a different variety". I had a smile on my face for the rest of the day.

So, off we went, the monkey tucking into his red tomato and we finished our shopping. Next thing you know the tomato was gone. Nope, it hadn't fallen down, or got mushed into the baby carrier. It had gotten eaten in its entity. Nice one, veggie baby!

Today for lunch it was the risotto again and as a warm up the monkey got his first black tomato. Like the tomato the other week, this one was devoured in one messy sitting. Onto a winner.

Fresh produce and messy black tomato munching