Baby food recipes: Amaranth & Ground Lamb

Save all those pasta sauce glass jars. Wash and reuse for refrigerating baby food jars. To freeze, put it into tiny Tupperware sauce containers. Make sure to put a label with the date it was made and list the contents on everything.

Babies stay on an exclusively breast milk or infant formula diet until six months of age. After that, they can try a couple servings of infant formula or breast milk mixed with infant rice cereal per day. After a month of that, without any diarrhea or vomiting, they can try all of that with organic mashed bananas.

Gradually introduce small quantities of new foods to them, as they can be allergic, or unable to digest it. It's best to keep an electronic food diary with specialized software to see if they're getting all their calories and vitamins that they need per day.

Find a free online one that tracks vaccinations including for the flu virus, their height, weight, gender, age by weeks, head circumference, allergies to food, drugs, or bee stings, skin allergies, blood sugar levels, temperature, over the counter and prescription drugs, especially for asthma or diabetes, and results from all blood tests or cultures.

Make sure it's recommended or approved by the American Academy of Pediatrics.  If this isn't available, create one for free, for poor immigrants, with links to the American Academy of Pediatrics for the poorest WIC and all food bank centers within each state, in both Spanish and English languages.

You'll need to put bilingual brochures in every single ethnic grocery store, WIC branch, food bank, Head Start, elementary school, VNA, or Visiting Nurses Association, small, minority- owned pharmacies, and bilingual doctor's offices' waiting rooms to inform them of the free health tracking website also. Make sure it's printed in only large fonts, bolded, because of the lack of eyeglasses available to the poor. Arial 14 pt, bolded font should be the smallest font on the brochures.

Ban fruit juices, kool aid, sodas and excessive desserts from their diets. It causes increased hyperactivity and empty calories.

Recipes:

Baby Food Organic Amaranth Seed & Ground Lamb Stew (Cut recipe in 1/3 of measurement to fit into an at-home, large-sized crockpot):

Ingredients:

Ground organic lamb meat, extra-lean, browned, drained, 3 lb. (ask the Whole Foods butcher to grind this for you if it's not available)

Organic amaranth seeds, uncooked, 8 cups (iron-rich)

Organic chicken broth, fat-free, reduced sodium, 14 cups

2 to 4 cups raw, peeled, finely-shredded, organic carrots

2 to 4 cups organic, frozen peas

1 cup of natural vitamin E oil, food-grade, organic, as a natural preservative

Put everything into a large crockpot, on high heat for 3 hours to soften and fully cook. Let it cool for 30 minutes. Pour it into air-tight containers. Label and freeze or refrigerate.  Make sure you stir the hot spots out when you reheat it in a steamer or microwave oven. Stirring a cup of cold, organic chicken broth into it will help.

Organic Quinoa, Sweet Potatoes, Brown Rice & Ground Turkey Breast Stew Recipe:

Ingredients:

4 cups organic, uncooked quinoa (a complete protein)

4 cups organic, raw, peeled, diced, orange sweet potatoes (rich in beta carotene)

3 lbs organic, heritage, ground, browned, drained turkey breast (ask the Whole Foods butcher to grind that for you if it's not available)

4 cups organic brown rice, uncooked, prewashed & drained in warm water 3x

12-14 cups organic, fat-free, reduced sodium chicken broth

1 cup food-grade, organic, natural vitamin E oil, as a natural food preservative

Put all ingredients into a large crockpot on high heat, for 3 hours until well-softened, fully cooked. Cool for 30 minutes, before putting it into jars or Tupperware, labeled.