Ingredients
Instructions
- Grind the powders yourself from unsweetened dried peach and mango, and read the label on anything bought in. Commercial dried fruit commonly carries sulphites or added sugar, and neither belongs in an infant meal.
- Measure both powders into the bowl before any water comes near them. Powder tipped into standing water clumps at the surface, and those clumps hide dry centres.
- Pour the boiling water over and stir until the colour is even throughout. The boiling water is doing two jobs here, dissolving the fruit and providing the only heat this food ever gets.
- Let it come right down to lukewarm and test it on the inside of your wrist. Fruit purees hold heat far longer than water and stay hot in the middle after the surface feels fine.
- Loosen it with extra cooled boiled water if you want it thinner, rather than using less powder in the same volume. It is the consistency that changes as a child gets older, not the amount of fruit.
- Cover it tightly, keep it in the fridge and use it within three days, and throw out whatever is left in the bowl after a feed. A used spoon has been in that bowl, and fruit at room temperature is a good home for what it carries.
Nutrition
| Per 100 g | Per 1 oz (28 g) | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 286 kcal | 81 kcal |
| Protein | 5.1 g | 1.5 g |
| Fat | 2 g | 0.6 g |
| saturated | 0.3 g | 0.1 g |
| Carbohydrate | 63.6 g | 18 g |
| sugars | 63.6 g | 18 g |
| Fibre | 9.2 g | 2.6 g |
| Sodium | 2 mg | 1 mg |
Estimated from the ingredients, for the finished dried product. Actual values vary with the produce you use and how far you dry it.
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