Quorn weaning questions

[jasperc163]

What age can you introduce it and do you have to have tried eggs (contains rehydrated egg white??) first?

I am running out of ideas with my LO (8.5 months but very slow as far as solids goes) who we had wanted to wean vegetarian but who appears to be MPSI, and who doesnt seem interested in veg!!

thanks
alice

quorn is too salty for babies and is bulky with no really nutritional value. It isn't recomended until quite a bit older. I have given it a few times, but I wouldn't do it as part of their regular diet.

I can't find anything on their website, bu I did come across that Quorn do not recomended for under 2.

Cut and pasting one of my posts from another thread because I can't be bothered to type it all in again

I can give you Marlowe Foods reaction to this, if it helps (they are the makers of Quorn). My dh was working on a production facility there when I was pregnant with dd and asked them what their recommendation would be. They said that they do not recommend it before the age of 2, although occasional use from 12 months should be OK. It's very highly processed, very low fat and high fibre, so it's not really suitable for young children.

It also contains a lot of egg, which many parents like to avoid until later on.

I did lots of beans etc for my first used to by a mix of dried beans/pulses from sainsbury's that wes aimed at soup making - it went down well. Mine have had quorn from relatively young - tended to use the quorn mince and make shepherds pie or a bolognese. Not every day but now and again

Will LO eat veg if its well pureed - its often the texture as much as the flavour. Also found mine ate homemade stuff best if i added more water than i would have intuitively.

thanks all - good to know. We havent firmly established if she has a problem with soya yet or not, so i am just going to have to cross fingers and hope we can do tofu!

Otherwise it looks like it is going to be pretty tricky.

She is pretty difficult allround (at the moment only touching bread, weetabix and soya yogs (which we have stopped as not sure if causing a problem) and occasional pureed fruit, avocado). I havent tried bean, pulses yet - that is next but i dont hold out too much hope atm as vegetables go down like a lead balloon (even if pureed, watered down etc.)

alice

Don't worry too much, it can take a while for some babies to get interested in solids. Have you tried finger foods? My ds didn't really go for purees and ate more once we let him feed himself.

Please avoid egg until she is at least 12m old. Egg was used as one of the first weaning foods when we were children due to its texture but doctors recomend now to be avoided as babies gut is not mature enough to diggest it and it's linked with the development of allergies.

About soya... the only thing I can say is that my DS had soya formula for 2 weeks and a soya based bath oil daily for a few months (prescribed for eczema). He is so allergic to soya now that he even reacts to lecithin. Soya is a pain to avoid so I would recommend to avoid tofu for a few months more and if you use soya products to space them a bit. Obviously, there are a lot of mums who nhave raised their babies in soya formula and nothing had happened but allergies to it is also a real possibility.