Can u give a baby 'fried' food?

[Taler]

I want to do eggy bread for my 7 month old but unsure whether i can give her it as it has to be fried. Plus if so I don't have any unsalted butter so can I use olive or sunflower oil?

Yes of course. Babies need fat, olive and rapeseed oil are very healthy fats.

Lovely stuff! I adore French toast. Nothing wrong with that.

I thought you were the mum I saw the other day pushing a pram with her tiny tot (not walking yet) munching on a McDonalds burger (the tot, not the mum - she had chips). I judged...

I thought of fried chicken ....

Yes, and I always cook French toast (aka eggy bread) in olive oil.

All mine loved eggy bread. So much so there was never any left for me

I thought you'd be asking if you could liquidize a fried breakfast for her or something

Yummy lots of nice unsaturated fat in olive oil!

It's good for babies ( and I'll steal a bit too )

As long as you aren't feeding them KFC or something

You reminded me of the post natal group, where the HV had tales of parents trying to liquidise chicken nuggets to make them suitable for a weaning baby as they were what the rest of the family were having.

Eggy bread sounds fine.

I guess saying "fried food" most people would assume the type of food that's really bad for you. What kind of a mother would that make me?!? I should have been clearer.

I would also suggest using rapeseed oil, cold pressed. Lots of omega 3-6-9 in it. I always use it when cooking things like pancakes, eggy bread, veggie fritters etc.

Consider a mix of unsalted butter and rapeseed oil. I find olive oil tends to leave a bit if a taste behind.

Might sound silly here but how do you make your eggy bread?

Sounds perfect!

Before I went into nursing I was a home help and visited one poor old lady that had a stroke and struggled to swallow.

Her son used to cook a variety like fish and chips/fried breakfast and then bung it in the liquidiser for me to feed her, I used to sit gagging.

Suggested proper dinners such as meat and potatoes etc but he was having none of it, felt so sorry for his poor mum!

RizzleBizzle - crack egg into bowl and mix it (if I was making for myself is add a little salt at this stage and pepper). Melt a knob of butter in a frying pan. Dip the bread into the egg mixture so it's covered all over and transfer to the frying pan. Should be only a few mins each side. Also LOVELY with crumpets :)

Aaah babies love eggy bread! Get her on it! Also, other good 'fried' things like stir frys (gumming on mange tout!) pancakes and fried banana.

If you want to be really healthy, use coconut oil

OP I'm gonna do this now, would you use white or brown bread?

Definitely white bread. Not only is white bread best for babas at this age, it tastes soooooo much better for us too. Enjoy :)

I can't imagine eggy bread made out of brown bread! White, it's got to be. Top with crispy bacon for extra heart attack nommness.

Eggy bread is the best weaning food in the world, tru fact. Possibly only challenged by eggy crumpets (try it, the egg goes into all the holes and is delish).

Soz to go off topic Taler but can I ask why you say it's better? I get so confused and you'd think I haven't got a brain the amount of things I ask when it comes to DD but is white bread not full of sugar and salt? I was told by a nutritionist that white bread is very bad well at least for me it's bad, or is there a better brand maybe?

Isn't the logic that brown bread is so full of fibre that it disproportionately fills up small children so that limits the amount of other nutrients they can eat - given they actually eat pretty small amounts each day.

Once they were eating any sort of quantity I tended to buy that 50:50 stuff, which is a nice compromise in terms of taste and texture.

Yes white bread is only better for very little children, for older children and adults brown is better.

Erm there seems to be a problem eggy bread needs to be coated with a light dusting of granulated or icing sugar, EGGY BREAD ISN'T SAVOURY

Ok that does make sense then, I'm jealous of her already her diet is already much tastier with her full get milk in weetabix and butter etc.