Rice cakes.. Easy way to feed babies rice

Hailing from South India, I cannot remember a day without eating rice. Rice is the staple diet and forms the basis of every meal. Starting with Idli/dosa/puttu/idiappam... for breakfast till rice and curry for dinner. 

I fed Omy the grinded version of rice and vegetables till he was an year old! But after that he claimed himself a big boy and adorned with the plastic baby spoon and fork. Once they reach the 'self-eating' stage, the amount of food reaching the tummy is cut by half and mamma's clean up job and time are doubled. I had to scratch my head to find the possible ways to make the food reach its home. As all moms know, the food track your baby's hand chooses from plate to tummy is very much similar to the road with gutter, land slides, mud-water holes and curbs! After the arduous and irksome job, you will see hardly 2 oafish rice grains sitting on the spoon by the time it reaches his mouth.
Omy munches on steak, pastas, beefaroni or any other befitting american dishes at school, but as soon he reaches home I need to feed him rice. The only thought in the back of my head is his tummy is not full without rice. So, atleast once a day, I try to fuel his tummy with rice and curries. 

Some days when i run out of time or when Omy is in no mood to eat rice,  I choose this deal!

I had been successfully shielding rice for some time now and pretty happy with the way it works too.

Rice plate - rice, vegetables, salt or rice and curries mixed up.
1 Egg

Mix up 1 egg and rice plate in a plastic bowl. It should be in a semi solid form now.
Pop it in the microwave for a minute, till the egg part hardens.
Now it all looks like a cake. take it out and cut them into pieces.

They will pick one by one and eat up.

Still not happy?? Sprinkle little water or dip them in egg white, bath them in bread crumbs and fry lightly in oil or ghee.

Try out different shapes and sizes. You can camouflage anything your baby hates to eat.

Remember in a previous post, I was looking for a debris-free form of food, and this is IT! :D



Now, we have more time to play.