Homemade Substitutes for Cerelac Stage 2 : 8months+

Yummy cerelac, a pet food of all babies from ages ago is a great instant baby food.
Find the homemade cerelac substitutes stage 1 here.

Now let us look forward to cerelac substitutes for stage 2.

Wheat Orange:

Homemade Instant Wheat Orange Cerelac:

• Clean wash whole wheat grains and dry them in hot sun.
• Once the wheat grains are moist free, blend them to fine powder.
• Store them in a hygiene air tight container. Avoid moisture that encourages fungus birth.

Steps:

• Pour drinking water in a clean sterilized utensil. Drop a scoop of the prepared wheat powder.
• Stir well to avoid lumps. Boil the mixture in low flame.
• Add rock sugar/jaggery as a sweetening agent.
• Boil till it reaches a semisolid state.
• Add formula milk for a better taste.
• Peel a fresh juicy orange. Peel the outer skin and seeds of the flesh portion too.
• Now depending on your child’s teething you can either add small pieces of the fruit or prepare orange squash.
• Mix the fruit well with boiled wheat porridge.
• Feed Wheat Orange porridge while warm.

Note: Choose fresh sweet oranges than the sour ones.

Wheat Honey:

Homemade Instant Wheat Honey Cerelac:

• As earlier specified repeat the same process, clean wash whole wheat grains and dry them in hot sun.
• Once the wheat grains are moist free, blend them to fine powder.
• Store them in a hygiene air tight container.

Steps:

• Prepare lump free wheat porridge that has turned semisolid just easy for the child to gulp.
• Pour a spoonful of honey and stir well.
• Feed the wheat honey porridge while warm.
Note: You need not add any sweetening agent (rock sugar/jaggery) while boiling as honey itself is a sweetener.

Rice Vegetable:

Homemade Instant Rice Vegetables Cerelac:

• Clean wash rice flakes (white rice /parboiled rice) and dry them to crisp in hot sun.
• In a dry blender, blend the rice flakes to fine powder.
• Store them in clean dry container.

Steps:

• Clean 3 to 4 spinach strands and a medium sized carrot.
• Chop them to small portions and boil the vegetables to soft.
• Here again depending upon your child’s teething you can either mash the vegetables with your fingers or blend them to smooth puree.
• In a clean vessel pour water just enough to dissolve a spoonful of rice powder.
• Boil till it reaches semisolid mass. Add water as required for cooking.
• Once the rice porridge is done, combine the vegetable puree together and formula milk.
• You can add salt or sweetener according to your child’s choice.
• Rice vegetable pairing make a great combination and loved by infants.

Note:

• Nestle cerelac included just spinach and carrots. Since it is homemade you can add some more vegetables like boiled beetroots, pumpkins and many more.
• Boil the vegetables and rice powder separately as their boiling temperature is different.

Wheat Apple Cherry:

Homemade Wheat Apple Cherry Cerelac:

• Clean wash whole wheat grains and corn grains and dry the grains.
• Finely powder both the grains together and pack them in a hygiene storage.
Steps:
• In a clean vessel boil the wheat corn powder along with enough water.
• Form a thick porridge in low flame.
• Add formula milk once done.
• Peel and chop half apple and few cherries. You can puree the fruits according to your baby’s convince.
• Mix the porridge and fruits together.
• Wheat Apple cherry porridge is ready.
• The fruits give a great flavor so you need not add any sweetener.

Shishu Aahaar Wheat Rice Moong Dal Veg Khichdi:

Homemade Wheat Rice Moong Dal Veg Khichdi:

• Clean wash green grams, rice flakes, whole wheat grains and dry them in sunlight.
• Powder the grains and store them dry.

Steps:

• In a clean sterilized utensil boil a scoop of powdered grains along with water.
• Stir continuously to avoid lumps and burning. Add water as required.
• Switch off the flame when it reaches a smooth semisolid paste.
• Include formula milk.
• Pressure cook the vegetables (carrots, spinach, tomatoes and many more from your baby’s list)
• Mash the vegetables or puree them. Mix them with porridge and serve warm.

Note:

• Porridge can be prepared with cow’s milk only after the age of one year.
• For 8 months+ infant’s , fruits can be given fresh without boiling.
• Boiling the vegetables is mandatory.

Hope this article is useful for new mothers.

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