Cereal question

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Hello,

I've never posted a message before but am a bit confused over breakfast for my 6 month old (only just introduced breakfast). I found a thread that suggested grinding adult organic oat cereal into a powder, which I have done but do I need to cook it with formula milk (i.e. on the stove or in the microwave) before giving it to him or do I simply mix it with the warm milk and blob of fruit?

Can you actually boil formula milk? Or can I use normal full fat milk and freeze portions?

Any help or advice gratfully received.....

I've always been confused myself about which oat cereals need cooking and which just need heating.

I think it would be OK to use formula. Does it say anything on the packet about freezing.

dd had regular porrige from about that age, I didn't grind them down or do anything special, just cooked on stove and added milk instead of water, along with grated apple or banana or other pureed fruit

I always use Ready Brek. Use warm milk and add powder and mix with banana or other pureed fruit.

I used ready brek or weetabix with our two at this age. DS still likes his warm with mashed banana at 17 months!!

Another one for Readybrek, Quaker Oats (or any kind of oats cereal) and Weetabix from 6mo. From 6months, its OK to introduce cows milk with food but at first, I used formula milk (gently warmed) with the cereal just so I didn't waste any opportunity getting either breast milk or formula into ds. After a couple of months, went to cows milk. HTH

boof - I think ground up oats would need cooking, personally I never botherered grinding them, they go very mushy when simmered for 4-5 mins in milk anyway.

And yes, you can boil formula. You can boil breastmilk too - I used EBM to make all sorts of porridge from oat, to millet and quinoa. Mash in some banana or pureed apricot or prune. Dd thought it was yum!

If you're not avoiding gluten - ready brek is incredibly easy because it doesn't need cooking.

Thanks all, appreciate the advice. Am hooked on mumsnet now!

My DS used to like (and still has them now at age 3!!) Warm shreddies, if you put milk on the shreddies and put them in the microwave for about 1 minute, then let them cool down abit, they go all mushy.