Grinding Rice for Homemade Baby Cereal

Aug 23, 2009 Cereals, Friendly Baby Food Advice, Uncategorized, appliances, grains

We received 2 emails during the week asking about grinding rice for homemade baby cereal. I thought I’d clean the coffee grinder and post some images in response.   Below I am using  Basmati rice because that is what’s for dinner and that’s what I have to use up before I can move onto the brown basmati.  I highly recommend using brown rice for baby’s cereal – it’s just more nutritious!

My coffee grinder is a Braun coffee grinder. It is a blade grinder and not a burr grinder. The coffee grinder is simple and cost about $14.95; it’s very old and did the grinding of rice for my (now 7 3/4 years old) twins when they were babies.

You can use old hard bread to clean your coffee grinder and rid it of coffee. The images below will show bits of coffee dust because I did a quick clean as we only use the grinder for coffee now.

First up, the coffee grinder

The grinder with 1/4 cup of whole Basmati rice (I ran out of brown rice!)

Rice after 8 seconds of grinding

Rice after 10 more seconds of grinding

Rice after another 10 seconds of grinding, now in a bowl

Rice in a bowl – part 2 Total grind time: about 30 seconds

Visit our Baby Cereal Recipes page to get recipes and our Homemade Baby Cereal FAQs page to learn about homemade baby cereals.

This grinder really can turn rice into a nice powdery type consistency that is perfect for making homemade baby cereals. It will do barley, steel cut oats, kamut, qunioa etc..

This is the coffee grinder – the link goes to amazon.com

Tags: cereal, grains, rice

The Food Saver – Use it for Homemade Baby Foods in Stage 2 and Stage 3 form

Jul 5, 2008 Uncategorized, appliances

A few of our visitors have mentioned that they have been using the Food Saver to freeze their “Stage 2 & Stage 3″ homemade baby foods. There are many types of Food Saver machines available. The prices range from $99.00 to $299.00 You can seal soft foods, mushy foods, hard foods and even wet foods. One of our visitors does not recommend trying to use the machine to save puree packets; she tried it once with horribly messy and disastrous results. She was of course quick to point out that she may have done it incorrectly.

Sami wrote to use about how she bakes up strips of chicken, strips of carrots, sweet potatoes, our recipes for baby meatballs and rice balls amongst other foods that she can use for finger foods and seals them with the Food Saver.

We do not have any personal experience with the Food Saver but we always try to let our visitors know about appliances that will be in use long after your little one has passed the puree stage!

If anyone has experiences with the Food Saver, please be sure to let us and your fellow baby food makers know!

Tags: appliances