If you like to cook oatmeal (or porridge) for your baby then you’ve probably been in the situation where your little one is ready to eat the oatmeal… but the oatmeal is too hot to be eaten!
We know from experience how it can feel as if it takes FOREVER for a hot breakfast to cool down when your baby is hungry!
So we were delighted to receive this tip yesterday from Angela in Ipswich, UK and to share it with you today.
Angela told us
My little boy loves his morning porridge but doesn’t love waiting for it to be ready. So what I do is freeze some cubes of pureed fruit, then pop them into the hot porridge once it’s cooked. The cubes help cool the porridge down quickly, they make it taste better and they add more vitamins to his breakfast.
We LOVE this idea and thought that – when baby is older – you could even add frozen blueberries or frozen banana slices, which take even less effort to prepare than a puree and add some extra texture too!
Other handy (but less nutritious!) options for cooling food quickly include:
- Using reusable ice cubes, that won’t release any liquid into the foods (but do make sure they are made from a material that’s safe to use in your baby’s food)
- Pouring the food into a larger bowl, causing the food to spread out and cool faster
- Sitting the bowl on a cool-pack, or bag of ice
- Simply popping the bowl in the freezer for a few minutes
If you’ve discovered an ingenious way of cooling baby’s food or know of any other handy tips to make feeding your baby a little easier, then please do leave a comment and share your brilliant idea!
And don’t forget to try these 4 Nutritious Ways of Making Baby’s Oatmeal Taste Amazing
Stuck for breakfast ideas?