Even before our move to Phuket, I read on many sites hysterical stories Mom, which in Thailand just went crazy due to lack of nutrition for a child. Like, those products that Russian doctors usually advise, here are missing as a fact, and the local food children refuse.
... as Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone by the Wind", I was going to think about it tomorrow. And here it came. "You can gradually enter the lore," said our doctor during the next admission, when Stefan was half a year. And painted the scheme, how it is necessary to eat our son from now. Unlike Russian pediatricians who advise to start lore with vegetables (and above all, from zucchini), our doctor suggested at first rice porridge, which gradually need to add egg yolk, and a week later, a boiled chicken. And only later to start giving vegetables and fruits.
In any local cafe, you can ask to cook vegetables that can be given to the child.
The rice porridge at first we bought in the supermarket (organic and very expensive), but then switched to ordinary rice whose varieties in Thailand are that mushrooms in Russian forests.
But when we got to vegetables, they really encountered a problem. But not at all with the one that some young mothers reported: they say, it is impossible to find something familiar. To me, on the contrary, it was difficult to understand: how to choose something one of the diversity, which is observed all year round in local markets. We rejected all exotic type of lotus immediately, but still the choice was bulky. So I started buying to buy everything that you saw, gradually realizing what I like Stefan most. So after a while we found out: Stephen's oatmeal loves with a pumpkin, and the boiled chicken - from broccoli and all the same zaqachi.
Information for the most lazy: baby food in jars, contrary to the same allegations in the network, in Thailand there are also. In almost all supermarkets there are several types of Heinz puree (about 50 rubles per jar), in European Villa Market I found jars a little more expensive - with the inscription Earth's Best Organic Baby Food Stage 1 (about 80 rubles). We loved the mixture of Peachy, since very successful with their packaging: no need for any spoons, the baby just sucks mashed potatoes. Therefore, when we go on the road, you must take a few packages with you. In hiking conditions, feed Stephen is very convenient.
Contrary to conversations, in Thailand a full baby food.
Otherwise, we prefer to cook yourself from fresh products. Our doctor, who said the unlump, in my opinion, was solid, in my opinion: they say, baby mashed potatoes appeared around at the same time as artificial mixtures. That is, it is one thing about things. And our son who has received exclusively breast milk to six months, and the lure is needed natural - the one who gave children hundreds of years ago. In short, fresh vegetables and fruits Forever!
... However, as it turned out, in which the hysterical mothers were right. Some products we really find here in Thailand could not ...
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Read the previous history of Olga here, and where it all starts - here.