Custard

[Hunnybunn72]

How should I make custard for a 10 month old ?

I use milk, a vanilla pod and corn flour. I pop in stewed fruit rather than sugar.

And, egg, obviously.

So I can't use powder ?

yes you could use powder

Ready made carton, no faff!

But not the low fat type ?

No, babies need full fat dairy.

My DS hates yoghurt so gets custard instead. We use the 15p Asda smartprice one, he loves it, just add boiling water. I add stewed fruit once it's prepared.

Think powder with full fat milk is a bit better nutritionally than the ready made pots ( which are made with skimmed milk, whey powder etc - check out ingredients. )

woodifier The typical custard I eat and feed DD contains:

Whole milk, whipping cream (30%), sugar, pasteurised free range egg yolk, thickener tapioca starch, bourbon vanilla extract (0.4%), vanilla seeds

It's a great weaning food I'd say. Custard Powder doesn't really add any nutrition to the normal milk, neither does the egg yolk really as it's quite a small amount so it's not really much different. Either would be good - you may well be looking at low fat custards? and they would indeed be a bit rubbish.