Between my daughter’s teething and being mindful of her iron intake (in part due to us doing baby led weaning and therefore skipping all purees, including baby cereal), I decided to make some frozen, iron fortified treats!
Ingredients:
- 15 leave of raw spinach (high in iron)
- One Mango (Vitamin C helps with the absorption of iron)
- 5 oz breastmilk (good for everything!)
I started with doing a rough chop of the mango (I snuck a few pieces for my gal to gnaw on for breakfast, too). I put this in my food processor with the spinach.
Blend well until liquified. I then poured this mixture into a measuring cup so that the transfer into the ice cube tray would be easier since there’s a spout. I folded in my 5 oz of breastmilk and stirred well.
Next step: Pour into the ice cube tray. I filled mine about 2/3 full and it filled up the whole tray that way.
I froze them for a few hours until solid. Then, I popped them out of the ice tray and put them in a ziplock bag for easy access in the future (and so I could have my ice tray back!).
I put mine in a mesh feeder, though if you had ice pop makers, you could just serve these on a stick as well. It was a hit with my 8.5 month old!
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