grinding rice + boiled vegetables

You can try rice to water ratio as 1:8 first, then slowly as 1:4 and so on. If you grind then they will just swallow.

 

@ADAP,
grinding rice makes it too pasty and they don't like the consistency. This what i do for my DS and he loves it.
On weekend, i take rice (3/4 white + 1/4 brown). soak brown over night and white for 1 hour, dal (i use moong now) 1/2 cup soak for 1 hours. I wash them, air dry then (in India u can sun dry). One they are are dry, roast them individually along with some jeera and balck paper (you can skip spices if ur baby is not used to and add then gradually later) and make a powder.

During his feeding time, i take 1 cup of water and add 2 TBS of power and cook, while cooking i add some ghee and pinch of salt and once its cooked, i add cooked and pureed veggies like carrot, squash, beans, beets etc (made on weekends) and heat through.

Some time instead of water i user plain tomato Rasam or vegetable stock.

hope this helps.

 

If this is the only way your baby has the rice there is nothing wrong in it. My mother tells me that my sister refused anything but the bottle for a long time. My mother would puree all the food, pour it into the bottle, snip the nipple and give her. She is perfectly fine 45 years later

 

I used to grind rice and give till 7-8 months. Then I used to pressure cook the rice with lots of water and till its a little thick and mushy. You can try that. Later I added moon dal, the ratio would be 2:1 dal to rice. More dal and less rice at first. This too I cooked till mushy, like kichdi. Then I would do tempering with cumin seeds and hing, it gives the rice flavor, you can add ghee or oil. By nine months, babies like to taste different things.

At one year, I make moon dal-rice khichdi, cumin seeds, hing, chilli powder, turmeric, cumin-coriander powder and garam masala and very little salt.

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The important thing is that your baby should eat , so you stick to what works for baby .

no problem in grinding rice and feeding . In between start giving him small pieces of idli , dosa , roti , other small soft food ,then you can start feeding him without grinding .

there is no point stressing over. . They will start eating normal food sooner or later

 

You can give banana, strawberries, custard apple(with seeds removed), chikku,mango, papaya or any other soft fruit.

I wouldnt give biscuit in the evening time, they have sugar in it, so the baby might have difficulty settling down and sleeping at night. Maybe some puffed rice snack (lightly sauteed in oil,turmeric, salt) or sev or pauva.

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