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Starting on lentils (or other grains) instead of rice cereal?

emmavenus77emmavenus77
in Babies: 3 - 6 Months

We limit our processed grain and white rice intake and instead consume whole or multigrains.  I would love to start DD on the same track from the beginning.  Has anyone tried this instead of white rice cereal?

Where do you get it? Do you make it yourself? If so, how?

I imagine it's not nearly as widely available in stores (if at all) as rice cereal or oatmeal.  Any info, websites etc. would be appreciated.

TIA
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Re: Starting on lentils (or other grains) instead of rice cereal?

  • cookieinvacookieinva member
    Well, you don't have to even start with cereal; some people skip cereal altogether. We started with whole grain brown rice cereal (Earth's Best https://www.earthsbest.com/products/product/2392390001). DS loves it. The main reason rice cereal is such a common first food is because it is gluten free and so easy to digest.
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  • BLykins16BLykins16 member

    We started with organic brown rice cereal as well, we buy the HappyBellies brand. I've found this brand at natural food stores and also at Target. If you are interested in making your own, you can check out www.wholesomebabyfood.com. Also the book Super Baby Food has a lot of good information as well as recipes for making your own baby food.

    https://shop.happybabyfood.com/our-products/happybellies.html

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  • marta602marta602 member
    imageBLykins16:

    We started with organic brown rice cereal as well, we buy the HappyBellies brand. I've found this brand at natural food stores and also at Target. If you are interested in making your own, you can check out www.wholesomebabyfood.com. Also the book Super Baby Food has a lot of good information as well as recipes for making your own baby food.

    https://shop.happybabyfood.com/our-products/happybellies.html

    Both of these are great resources for making your own food.  For DS I would buy brown rice from the bulk section at whole foods and make rice cereal with that.  I moved pretty quickly to a multigrain cereal from the Superbaby foods book that had oatmeal, rice, barley etc.  I might start with oatmeal instead of rice this time around.

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  • Haven1Haven1
    I use steel cut oats.  It's a pain to process down into powder, but to me it's worth it.  Using a sifter makes a big difference.
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  • mkanderson85mkanderson85
    We skipped cereal completely.  We started her on green beans yesterday.
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  • missjmeemissjmee

    Hi!

    Good luck with starting solids! IMO starting with avos, bananas, or applesauce is easy and fun. Grains are a sensitivity in my family so we will steer clear of those for a while. 

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