Ready Brek for baby

[jessi0343]

I'd like to start making Ready Brek in the morning for DD who is 7 months. Can I ask what quantities people use of the cereal and milk to get a right consistency for the baby? And to make it, do you recommend microwave, or just adding hot milk to the cereal?
Thank you

have you read what the current salt content is of ready brek? It used to be very high and there was a case in the paper of a baby dying after being fed it because of the salt content.

ditto what dreamingofsun said - its not suitable for babies!

Really, I've been feeding it to ds3 for a few weeks now on advice from a health visitor, i thought it was fine! Off to look up the salt content now.

Really, I've been feeding it to ds3 for a few weeks now on advice from a health visitor, i thought it was fine! Off to look up the salt content now.

Mine eat it perfectly happily. Since 6 months. Now 4 and 18m.
Not much readybrek, usually backed up with toast and with fresh fruit purée added
I tend to heat the milk in microwave and add to bowl. Make it quite wet.
Mine also love shreddies with hot milk and weetabix.
We also make fresh porridge at least twice a week in microwave.
DH is crap at making it though even though I give precise instructions. God knows what he does to it.
I measure one small cup porridge half cup water and 1 half milk. Microwave till it boils, about 4 to 5 mins let it stand to cool & thicken at least 2 mins. Use high sided jug like saucepan shape.

Why can't you just use normal porridge made quite wet? (Genuinely asking) It's much cheaper.

Yy porridge much better and cheaper

The baby that died (back in 1999!) was on a diet of all sorts of adult foods not just Ready Brek that's where the salt came from, not the cereal.

Unless it's dramatically changed since I weaned the DCs it has no added salt and barely any naturally occurring. Just warm up a small amount of milk and add until it gets to the right consistency. I used it because the equivalent baby cereals were ridiculously sweet so I ate more than the DCs did and I had more control with the Ready Brek

RB is fine - the baby that died the poor little soul was eating food with added salt in practically ever meal.

I used to do the same as Mrs - heat up the milk and add to RB a bit at a time.

I googled it - looks quite low to me www.weetabix.co.uk/products/cereals/ready-brek-original
The advantage to me over "real" porridge is that you can make TINY amounts

Thank you everyone for your responses. Yes I had done my research about Ready Brek, and the salt content is low (as Mrs said - the baby that had died was on all sorts of salted adult food like gravy, and he was only 3 months). We wanted to switch from the baby porridge because of price. However, DD is struggling with lumps so we think regular porridge might be too lumpy still. But I will try that too, thank you for the suggestions

You can also make similar by mixing weetabix with hot milk - MIL used to make this for my two when they were babies. Just add enough hot milk to turn it to mush, let it cool and serve!

I tried DD on ReadyBrek when she was a baby, but she didn't like it for some reason, don't know if it was the flavour or the consistency. I always thought it looked runny and horrible so maybe my facial expressions put her off it!

The salt content is very low. I don't know if that has always been the case but it certainly has been for the last 7 years!

i gave all my babies readibrek from the day the turned 6months. i still can't believe the price of the stuff on the baby food shelf.
approx 2oz warm milk (formula or cows milk in microwave for a few seconds) then just add a bit of readibrek, stir in, add a bit more till thick enough. i'm not one for accurate measuring and weighing! i do readibrek one day, weetabix the next day.
after a few weeks i chuck in some frozen berries or mashed banana to add a portion of fruit. then a few weeks later they get a big bowl of it just before bed to desperately try to get them to sleep through.

I remember a baby who died as it was weaned with ready brek not baby rice, it was horrible. .

it was not ready brek that caused the death of the baby, it was the instant mash and instant gravy - there is no added salt and very little naturally occurring salt in ready brek and is totally fine for a baby over 6 months.

I cant get the full article but looks like makers of ready brek were going to fight back against the comments made about their cereal as it is not high in salt at all:

Ready Brek cereal fights coroner's `slur'

You don't actually need to use warm milk. DD2 eats it quite happily with cold. [lazy lazy mother]

My DD (now 12 months) has been having porridge every morning for the past 4 months. I use Flahavans Irish Porridge Oats - 1 tbsp porridge to 2.5 tbsp milk. I boil then simmer it in a pan for about 3 minutes. HTH

If the ordinary porridge too lumpy, give it a whizz with a stick blender?

Another way to get rid of the lumps is to put the oats in a coffee grinder for a quick whizz before cooking. Makes smooth porridge, and I find a dry coffee grinder far easier to wipe out than a sticky blender (stick or jug).

Did you read the full article?

Did you read the full article of what the baby was eating?