I have always heard that we should avoid Red Meat as its not Healthy but my husband wants me to feed beef to my 1 yr old as he only likes fish or chicken . what do you suggest ? ( my zipcode is wrong . Im not in US)
I feed my kids beef, veal, and lamb meatballs starting at 8 or 9 months. Super healthy, lots of good fats and proteins for growth.
Red meat is not unhealthy for you. Eating it in massive quantities, however...sure, it's unhealthy. I have to limit my intake ALL meat because I have kidney stones...however, the key word is "limit," not "eliminate." Most things in moderation and healthy and even necessary.
Your husband is right, in my opinion...beef is an excellent source of protein. You can get lean (93/7) ground beef to use in recipes for your young guy, but wait on the tougher cuts (roasts, steaks) until he has molars to chew with.
You can do a lot with lean ground beef...make healthy tacos, casseroles, meatloaves, meatballs for pasta, etc...
Beef, fully cooked, is safe for babies but it is not necessary. There's nothing wrong with avoiding red meat, as adults or as children. Eating more than a little red meat isn't the healthiest for us. My suggestion is to feed your son what you eat. If you eat beef, he can eat it at meals too. If you don't normally serve it, there's no need to introduce it to your son, there's no special benefit there. In the old days, people thought beef was so healthy, and since it was expensive, you were considered a good parent to be able to provide it. This isn't the case anymore. When you eat fish or poultry, that's what he should eat. One year olds can and should be eating table foods, taking meals with the family.
beef is safe for babies. Just make sure it's ground beef , it's hard to chew up pieces of unground beef.
be careful with fish some are high in mercury.
Normal food that you eat is safe for a child that is over 1 year of age. I would still introduce foods that are not typical for a 1 year old at different times so if an allergy showed up you wouldn't have 20 ingredients to filter through.
A 1 year old child should only have peanut butter in super super thin amounts on a cracker or piece of bread, so thin you can see through it. Then it needs to be cut up in 1/4"-1/2" pieces so they don't get gummed up in their mouth and choke them.
They can eat everything an adult is eating but in way smaller portions.
If they can't quite chew it enough then cut it up. I bought a Pampered Chef Food Chopper and I would whack it 15 times on each little section of the kids foods. This way they get the texture and the flavors but the pieces are around 1/4" and easier for them to chew, swallow, and not choke.
As for giving this child a bite of rare steak....I would not do that because it just seems like their meat should be cooked all the way through and not have any blood moving around in it.......
as an adutl doctors suggest avoiding red meat as it is not as healthy for your heart as lean meat and white meat. if your truly just doing it for the heart factor i would keep it to lean meat and white meat. the red meat here in the states is fine and approved by federal inspectors. IDK about your area.
Beef is high in iron and babies need iron.
Yes beef is safe for babies, by one year old he should be able to eat whatever you are eating.
My daughter ate beef as soon as she started getting teeth. Didn't do her any harm.
my husband only likes beef.. so we have a good amount of beef in our diet.
I would prefere chicken.
beef is fine in moderation.. maybe once or twice a week.
My second born's first table food was steak. He snitched it right off his dad's plate. Kid didn't even have teeth yet!
Beef is perfectly fine and a great source of protien and iron. Just make sure you cut it in extremely small pieces.
