More Family Here
My brother and sister arrived from Ethiopia over the weekend. I am so happy to have more family here.
In addition to free babysitting labor, they brought:
1. Dark Whole Wheat flower (I like my injera dark and whole).
2. Berbere (ground hot peppers).
3. Frozen kitfo and doro wot (hummm humm good Ethiopian food!)
4. Coffee Ceremony stuff
5. And Atmit made from 13 whole ingredients: barley, oatmeal, black teff, beans, chickpeas, wheat, millet or zengada, yellow corn, lentils, peas, another type of millet or dagosa, sun flower seeds, and flaxseed.
Buchela ate the same kind of Atmit for every single meal until he was almost one years old.
Of course, we gave him fruits in addition but that was it.
No baby food shopping, no juggling canned or jarred stuff.
It was really convenient!
Hubby affectionately called it "The Mud."
I admit it didn't look too appetizing. But I think this traditional Ethiopian baby food can provide a pretty well balanced nutrition when prepared with legumes and a good variety of grains.
Besides, I don't want to worry about the ingredients in store bought foods here. So, I ordered some for Dinbit.
She will start munching on it at around six months.
lol @ "the mud" haha.....
Shhhhhhhhhhhh, dont tell any one that I am old.
long time ago back home. It sure did not look appetizing, but hey, it was very nutritious and my cousin was a happy and healthy baby. He too lived on this stuff mainly (plus fruits) till he started eating solid food when he got older.
If you are not doing so already, how about adding steamed mixed vegetable purée (like steamed carrot, sweet potato, or any other suitable vegetable purée) to the aTmit concoction to help the "mud" color situation while adding nutrition? That might make it more appetizing.
Enjoy every moment you have with your siblings. Free babysitting, all the goodies they brought from home, and more people to spoil Buchela and Dinbit are a bonus. Enjoy having extra help and maybe catching up with some sleep and rest :-).
The great thing about Atmit is it makes feeding your child home made baby food really easy. The key is to have a well diversified atmit mix made in the first place.
Dara, you poor thing, I know exactly what that feels like!
OH, it is easy. You just boil it until it is cooked and has a runny porridge consistency. No sugar, no salt. After year one, I started putting milk in it but by then he was beginning to eat a lot of other things.
:)
What i want to know is that they sell that shirt in ethiopia?