Baby rice breakfast

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Would you give baby rice at breakfast or is it too early in the day?

I think they recommend avoiding baby rice these days due to the levels of arsenic

I would go for Ready Brek instead if you want something quick and easy

What age is your baby?

I would avoid baby rice. Try normal porridge or weetabix. Or baby porridge if your baby struggles with textures.

Mine had yeo valley fromage frais to begin with they don't have added sugar. A lot of baby yoghurt do and she does have different ones these days for variety. I tried baby porridge but she wasn't keen and never bothered with baby rice the first rice she had was risotto.

Baby rice is rank. Nothing nutritious about it.

What do you mean about too early? Too early as in 8am being too early? It's breakfast time so I wouldn't have thought so?

I would tru ready brek, weatabix or porridge. I used to add fruit purée to make it a little tastier when they got older or chopped up fruit.

Be careful with the salt content of ready brek. Normal oats and milk are much better. I use a pestle and mortar to crush the oats a bit more as my baby isn't great with texture.

It's horrid bought it and tried it myself

Baby spat it out. Not surprised never did it again

Purer fruit is much nicer or as people say ready brek

there is NO salt in ready brek! Some of the suggested foods aren't suitable under 6 months due to containing gluten/ dairy. What age is your baby?

She's only 5 months So it's still early

I wouldn't, 6 months is the typical weaning age.

They don't need anything except milk unless advised by a HCP for medical reasons (e.g. weight loss or failure to gain weight due to reflux or something).

Especially not something like baby rice that isn't nice and has no nutritional value.

Enjoy the nappies until it all kicks off when the solids start at six months. No need for solids until then they get all their nutrition from breast milk or formula. ( unless it is under advice from a HIP as mentioned above)

Unless advised differently wait till 6 months

I started weaning with Heinz banana porridge. I think it may have slightly more sugar than some alternatives, but DD loves it!

Nothing until 6m+ so definitely no baby rice at 5m

As pp have said unless it's under medical advice, wait until she's 6months.

After then I recommend 1/2 block of weetabix, with breast or formula milk and 1/2 small banana, all mashed up. DD loves that.

I also think wait til 6 months to wean properly, but you can still let her have little licks and tastes of things. That wouldn't be baby rice though, as she'd actually have to eat that, but maybe she can suck on things like banana, broccoli, carrot etc. She probably won't really eat it and will mush it and waste 90% of it.
I spoke to a couple of health visitors about this, and they said doing that was fine as it isn't regular eating, it's just getting used to taste and texture of different foods. Then when she's 6 months, it isn't so new to her.
If she really does want to eat now, there's no harm in letting her have tastes/licks of food, but you should probably try to avoid weaning properly before 6 months. Read NHS website about it all too.

Why do people keep saying baby rice has no nutritional value? Unless it has no calories that is blatantly untrue. Plus most of them are fortified with iron and various vitamins and minerals.

There are certainly more nutritious things you could feed your baby but it just really irritates me that people keep saying this

Wait until 6 months, then start slowly with 1 meal per day.

Baby rice has no value plus issue with arsenic content.

Porridge can be cooked by using quality , carefully sourced rice or millet. Whole grain, as to grain itself not being milled into powder as in instant porridges or other processed types of cereal product such as weetabix etc.these have no value due to processing.

Zahrah has just exemplified the issue I mentioned in my previous post. No value - except carbohydrates, iron, vitamins, minerals and plenty of calories.

So many amateur nutritionists on this board talking nonsense

'Carefully sourced millet'

Fartniss, do you mean artificially added vitamins and minerals?

I personally do not believe diet or young child's diet should come from anything artificial. It is questionable how much of that can body actually utilize.

No thanks, there is no reason to feed young children processed porridges which needs to have vitamins artificialy added if you can perfectly fine feed them whole foods in the natural state at much higher nutritional value.

Carefully sourced mean you look at where your food comes from, there are regions and type of rice which contains more arsenic than others and some which have much less arsenic. There are ways to cook rice to significantly decrease arsenic content. You dont have this control with pre-packaged highly processed porridges.

There is huge nutritional difference between whole grain and processed grain and cereal products. That's why people are saying that. ;-)

I'm not disagreeing that there are more nutritious things to feed your baby than baby rice (said that in my previous post). But saying that it has 'zero value' is untrue, so you shouldn't say it.