Does anybody give their baby nutribullet smoothie?

[2015mom]

Hi my LO is 7 months and I was wondering whether I could give him a nutribullet smoothie of fruit and veg which is then sieved into a cup so there are no bits.

Also the books don't say can't give nuts and seeds to babies, they just say for nuts to blend them down and not to give them whole so I see why I can't put seeds and nuts into the nutribullet for LO.

Does anybody have more insight into the above?

I can't see why not, surely it's similar to puree or blended soups anyway and variety is all good.

There are lots of very good reasons not to give a baby a fruit and veg smoothie- particularly if he is getting lots of other fruit and vegetables. He is much too little for more than a tiny % of his nutrients to come from anywhere but milk, so filling him up with other liquids is not necessarily a good idea. And his digestion is still very immature- too much fruit and veg will probably upset his stomach.

Well I've done a quick google and it says smoothies are ok but introduce the food separately first in case of a reaction.

Your choice really.

I blend dd2 fruit in our nutri bullet as her dessert after lunch type thing. I don't make it a smoothie (l don't add water). Just a couple of bits of fruit, can't see why it would be a problem tbh. She gets finger food also but blw isn't for me.

Actually - this is a point. He's only 7 months and as smoothies are very "easy" to eat there's a danger it could replace milk feeds if you give too much.

As a method of pureeing food to be fed from a spoon I think it's fine. It's probably not a good idea to let him drink it through a straw or from a cup, if you do, then just small amounts yet.

Once he's more/totally established on solids then it would be less of an issue and would then be fine.

So - keep it small and you're okay. Think about matching the amount to one of those puree pouches. In fact you could even look at getting some refillable pouches so you're basically making your own baby food.

A mix of BLW and spoon feeding IS traditional weaning.

You are traditional weaning that is all.

Try it, you seem like you are sure it's the route you want to go down. You can also get a baby nutribullet.

Daughter I thought that too! does the poster work for nutribullet or what?

Well it's only a blender, people have been feeding their babies stuff out of a blender for years. I would be cautious about the nuts and seeds though personally.

It would be far too easy for him to fill up on too much sugar and insufficient fats and protein, as well as giving him an upset stomach.

The very best liquid nutrition he can have is milk - formula or breast - supplemented with weaning foods. Weaning is about learning to eat - a liquidised mish mash of fruit and vegetables won't help with that.

Plus the nutribullet is a nutrition extractor not a blender so it means it just means it has all nutrients in the drink so no goodness is lost

Can you explain please? How does that work? And why is it different to a blender?

Surely if you blend stuff nothing is lost so all the "nutrition" is there. How does the nutribullet "extract" nutrition. I've never seen one so no idea how it works.

I wouldn't and can't see the point, just give your baby pieces of fruit to try.

Babies still get all their nutrition from milk at this age, food is about exploring tastes/textures, learning to chew, to grip etc

It's not about whizzing up a load of fruit and veg and getting them to swollow as much as possible. Smoothies are also packed with sugar, which will be realised into the blood stream very quickly. Much faster than if he was just eating (chewing) one piece of mango for example.

I also wouldn't mix in nuts and seeds because of possible allergies.

Don't forget that eating and chewing also develops mouth and tongue muscles for speech.

At 7 months food is about leaning and developing, not about nutrition. Most of that will be from milk until he's 1.

I don't think it's much different to making a puree. If it were me, I would build up ingredients slowly from 2-3/4 different fruits & veg.
My 6.5 month old is already having 3 'meals'. They're small meals and are a mix of puree and finger food. Surely your smoothies just take the place of the puree.

You're not making much sense OP
As others have said - you're better off giving your baby tastes of individual fruit and veg and making sure he or she gets most fluids and nutrition from milk

Babies don't need any more food than they can pick up and chew or lick on their own so there is no need to give them blended drinks

If he's happy chewing fruit when you give him it whole I don't see the point of puréeing it? Just whap a banana or a sliced peach in front of him and let him go at it. Then he's getting nutrients and experimenting with feeling the fruit etc.

I don't get the whole nutribullet being different to a blender either... It might be higher powered than your bog standard £20 job from Argos so blend a bit more finely, but it's definitely still a blender.

On the feeding babies smoothies front, I gave DD them on very rare occasions. However, only when they were very veg-heavy (75%+) and I would give it to her in a bowl with a spoon and let her get on with it as we BLW. Most ended up around her chops or on the highchair tray, but she got to taste and try as well as practice her spoon skills. I gave seeds and nuts (ground or finely chopped, nut butters etc) from 6mo as current advice is to do so unless you have a family history of allergies which we don't. I agree with PPs that they need very little food at 7mo other than their milk, it really is supplementary, it's more about experience of tastes and learning to feed themselves.

3 meals and 2 snacks seems like far too much to me at such a young age but I know with traditional weaning you do tend to work up to 3 meals more quickly, especially if starting on the purées before 6mo. DD reached 3 'meals' (read: opportunities to eat) by 9mo, and 3 meals 2 snacks by 12mo.

And yes it's pedantic, but I agree with the poster on the previous page, you really can't BLW and spoon feed together. You can do finger foods and spoon feed which is traditional weaning. BLW by it's definition doesn't leave room to spoon feed, as you cease to be baby-led the moment you aeroplane a spoonful of purée in. Nowt wrong with traditional weaning if that's what you want to do, both paths lead to a baby eating 'real' food, but they aren't styles that can be combined. Not what you originally asked I know, but it's a personal bugbear when people say they do both... It's like saying you do AP with a bit of Gina.

Nutribullets are just fast powered blenders. Don't really see the difference between a veg smoothie and veg puree TBH?

I use mine to blend soups and pasta sauces. Also make banana milkshakes for the DCs which is super quick.

What a weird thread. Why ask and then start an argument about it?

It's just an easy way of making a puree. I don't see what the issue is with that.
I used to use a blender when my babies were little. If I'd had a nutribullet then, I would have used that.

It's not different from a blender. I expect OP meant that it's different from a juicer. A juicer retains the pulp which has much of the fibre etc from fruits and vegetables whereas a blender keeps everything in.

My only concern is if your feeding it as a drink. DD is only drinks milk or water aged 2, and being fed sugary smoothies from an early age would encourage sugary drinks.

"Fresh fruit and veg are good for your health.

Smoothies are full of sugar. May be natural sugar but it's still teeth decaying"

Errr... what? Are you talking about store-bought smoothies?

I think you are confused.

JapaneseSlipper - a homemade fruit smoothie will be very sugary.

I don't know, just seems a bit pointless when he could just eat the fruit or vegetable whole and get more benefit. I do give DS soup though so maybe it's no different.