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How to Make Healthy Porridge for Your Baby: Easy & Nutritious Recipes
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Jun 30, 2025
Learn how to make healthy porridge for your baby with simple, nutritious ingredients. Discover age-appropriate recipes, tips for weaning, and how to boost your baby’s growth naturally.
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while you may think you're giving
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yourself the best nutrition the best
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kinds of food you might be causing
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vomiting abdominal pain and even
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diarrhea that keeps you rushing to the
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hospital time over time welcome back to
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my channel this is a nutrition and
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lifestyle channel giving solutions to
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everyday nutrition problems so going
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back to years
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in the past our mothers or grandmothers
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our great-grandmothers would prepare
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porridge from mixing all these edible
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cereals and legumes together to make one
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flour mixture that can be used to make
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porridge for our babies
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but is that something that we should
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keep doing should we embrace that method
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of cooking in this video today we are
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going to talk about complementary
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feeding and specifically we are talking
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about how to prepare porridge for your
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child so i'll just use an example so
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that you get a very good explanation of
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this concept so when you're preparing
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for it especially for women in the
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village they love to add
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raw beans into the flour so you have
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your millet your soy gum or your maize
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flour and then you enrich it with beans
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so usually how long does it take for
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beans to cook it could go to four hours
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or more
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but then you want to add these beans
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into the sauce into the milk flour and
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prepare it for 30 minutes and give it to
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your child
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and then would you still wonder why your
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child has diarrhea when your child has
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abdominal pain when it's obvious that
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the beans are undercooked
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perhaps you're wondering now what do we
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do
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when you're preparing complementary
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foods for your children for your babies
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you need to consider hygiene very
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important what foods you're giving
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what amount how of how frequent so in
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this video we're focusing on what type
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of foods so when you want to give your
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child the best nutrition of course you
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want to think about the legumes you want
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to think about the cereals
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but the idea of mix them to mixing them
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together limits you from knowing which
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kinds of food your child is allergic to
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which kinds of food are causing vomiting
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or diarrhea in your child so it's
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important that you embrace new methods
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of cooking so what is recommended is
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that you prepare a one container of the
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main cereal that you wish your baby to
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take
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you can have one container containing
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your main cereal like for example this
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is millet pure millet flour so in one
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large container you have your main
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cereal
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and then you want to enrich your main
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cereal with other proteins so you can
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have
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so you can have other smaller containers
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like this one here containing the
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proteins like for example soya
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groundnuts omena
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and so many other cereals legumes that
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are available in the market so having
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these ones in separate containers and
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smaller ones ensures that you can always
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be able to refill them over time you
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want to prepare your main
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cereal like the millet and then enrich
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it with the groundnut for today enrich
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it with either soya for tomorrow
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or mayna for the other day so that you
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can
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be able to alternate this variety of
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foods to ensure that your child gets the
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maximum nutrition out of these foods
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also at the same time you're able to
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monitor the the reaction to these foods
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the way a child would react to soya does
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not mean your child reacts the same way
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so children are different prepare these
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foods separately so that you're able to
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monitor allergies and for example if you
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notice the area of vomiting when you
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have prepared a certain food for example
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soya then you can easily know that your
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child might be having problems with soya
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as opposed to having one large mixture
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of flour then you can never really tell
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which food specifically affects your
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child so this is a hack that i want us
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to try at home so many of us are already
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using that old habit of mixing
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everything together and giving it to our
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baby sometimes we don't even taste that
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porridge to make sure it's edible it's
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something that you should eat but we
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want our children to eat and therefore
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keep on in and out hospitals because of
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these symptoms and signs and symptoms
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that i've already mentioned so to
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prevent all that to prevent eventually
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preventing malnutrition
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you need to embrace new ways of
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preparing meals for babies for example
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uh like this hack that i've given in
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this video today this video is a bit
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different from the other videos that
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i've done i've always done about weight
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we've talked about diabetes and all
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these other diseases we've never talked
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about complementary feeding but this is
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a segment that we're adding to our
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channel we're going to be talking about
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so so much um so many many things about
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complementary feeding so please consider
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subscribing and turning on your
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notification bell so that you don't miss
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out on the videos that i post so thank
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you so much for joining me today until
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next time
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