when making puree in advance do I add milk or not?

[yellowflowers]

As the thread title says really - am going to cook up a whole batch of carrots, squash, apple etc - my Annabel Karmel book says to mix with a little formula or breast milk - do I do this and then freeze it or do I freeze it by itself and then add the milk once defrosted. Silly question really but I can't work it out.

I never added milk to the purees, just left them plain so the taste was stronger.

I did freeze mashed potato once and the milk / butter was fine when de-frosted.

I have to confess I never involved milk of any description at all. I guess your LO is only a few months, in which case the puree is at best a toy so he/she will be getting all the nutrition they need from regular BF/bottles. I wouldn't worry about it unless your LO refuses point blank, in which case maybe the addition of a little milk would help, but I'd freeze the puree without it.

Thank you. Anyone else able to tell me what they do...?

you can add milk before or after or not at all! - it is up to you

How old is your baby yellowflowers? If he/she is 6 months you don't need to make any purees at all...

I found it handy to add milk after defrosting/warming the puree, so that i could cool it down a bit, if too hot. Ds doesn't really have milk in stuff now, but at the beginning, he seemed to prefer the purees if there was a little bit of milk mixed in.

it really, truly does not matter at all whether you do it before or after

but if your baby is 6 months i'd recommend ditching AK, and buying a Gill Rapley book instead.... far, far easier :)

...unless your baby and you are happy doing the purees thing, in which case carry on with what your doing - but it doesn't matter if the milk goes in before or after freezing.

Thank you. BLW not for me.