Recipes of baby food Name: Zhang Shuyi Country: P. R. China

Profile Child anemia is the main nutrition problem in China, while malnutrition is not common – Staple: rice, porridge, noodle, steamed bread, dumpling…… – Vegetable and eggs every day – Animal source food not in-time or insufficient due to some misunderstandings – Little fresh milk or diary product, except formula in cities Mothers/grandmothers are busy with working and household work – Lack of skill, time, or willing to cook for young children

General recommendations Give respect to local/family cooking habits and local food Home made baby food should be easy to prepare and could share with the family – Baby suitable – Mixture with vegetable, flesh, egg …

Pumpkin and liver mud 6-8 month Pumpkin, chicken liver, oil, sugar boil/steam small pieces of pumpkin to soft and grind to muddy by spoon Boil a thin slide of chicken liver thoroughly and grind to muddy by spoon Mix pumpkin muddy, chicken liver muddy, and some oil and some sugar Vit A, Fe, Protein

Egg custard in a mould 6-8 month Egg, meat soup, oil Mix egg wash and cool meat soup thoroughly Steam the mixture in 10 minutes Put drops of oil Soft Protein, phospholipid

Fried Balls 8-10 month Carrot, flour, flesh/fish/doufu, egg, oil Make carrot to very small filament by box grater, steam them thoroughly and cool down Mix cooked carrot with flour, egg wash and mincing flesh/fish/doufu Shape the mixture in small balls Fry/steam the balls Mixture of protein, oil, carbohydrate Changing ingredient with local food supply and family favor Finger food for kids and snack for other family members

Dry Mixing Noodles month noodles, meat, tomato Boil the noodles, fish up the cooked noodles, cut the noodles in short fragments Stew meat (streaky) with tomato in one hour thoroughly Chop the cooked meat to small pieces Mix the noodle fragments, meat mud and soup Staple and dishes together Protein, Vit A, starch, oil,

Mixture Porriage under nourished Porriage with rice, seeds, beans, peanut, sesame Oil, sugar Fish meat/mutton meat