Thursday, June 23, 2005
Recipe (sort of): Baby Formula Fruit Smoothies
For lack of a better recipe this week, and now that the secret is out so it won’t sound so odd that we are trying to have Sadie drink some formula, I thought I would tell you about baby formula fruit smoothies. See, the nursing well has been running a bit dry, and we thought Sadie might still need the nutritional value she would get from nursing. Thus the bit of formula to fill the gap.
Trouble was, she hated it. Thus the need to get around that…
We made four ounces of formula per the package, mixing it in the blender/food processor.
Add some fruit and blend as needed to eliminate chunks. We used mango, kiwi and peach. We didn’t measure, but it was enough to thicken and color the drink.
Other fruits can be used as well. Banana is an especially good candidate.
The caveat: It clogs the holes in the sippy cup, or at least it did for us.
The benefit: She loved it. It was quite tasty, which formula by itself is not so much.
Another use: The smoothy mixes nicely with baby cereal and she loved that too.
There you have it; a recipe for the younger set. Really young.
