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Tips For Preparing Meat

Tips for preparing meat

Tips for preparing red meat:

Video transcript [1]

Iron is especially important for your baby to keep blood and brain cells healthy. Lean meat, chicken and fish contain lots of iron. You can add meat to your baby’s food by:

  • cooking and puréeing the meat and adding vegetable water, meat juices or water to make it thin if needed, or
  • freezing uncooked meat and grating the frozen meat into your baby’s raw vegetables before cooking
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Why Is Iron Important For Your Baby? [2]

By 6 months, your baby will be starting to run low on the stores of iron they were born with. Iron is especially important to keep blood and brain cells healthy.

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Beef and lamb recipes for babies and toddlers [3]

Check out which recipes, using meat, are suitable for your baby's age (eg lamb soup for young ones for 6+ months)

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