https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 01 May 2026 07:20:47 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/meat-as-a-first-food#post-2077810 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 21:27:25 +0000 Rockies11 2077810@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The new Canadian feeding recommendations have meat as a first food. We did ground beef and tomato dishes and rotisserie chicken, since it's really soft. We did BLW as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/meat-as-a-first-food#post-2077778 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 21:12:49 +0000 Cole 2077778@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lion: That sounds much more reasonable than my weird vision of grinding up rib eye every day! I looked up a list of high iron foods and it won't be at all difficult to work one of those items in each day or so. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/meat-as-a-first-food#post-2077754 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:46:38 +0000 Mrs. Lion 2077754@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did blw and gave lo strips of grilled chicken as one of his first foods. He could suck on the juice and gnaw on it but he wasn't able to break off pieces. He loved it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/meat-as-a-first-food#post-2077749 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:43:34 +0000 Cole 2077749@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our pediatrician mentioned at our last visit that traditionally here the first solid food is iron fortified cereal but that there has been some research to suggest that meat may be a good option as well. Has anyone else been told this? I have only started to look into it but I did find this study which agrees with her:<br /> <a href="http://mobile.journals.lww.com/jpgn/_layouts/oaks.journals.mobile/articleviewer.aspx?year=2006&#038;issue=02000&#038;article=00018#ath" rel="nofollow">http://mobile.journals.lww.com/jpgn/_layouts/oaks.journals.mobile/articleviewer.aspx?year=2006&#038;issue=02000&#038;article=00018#ath</a></p> <p>I think I am hung up on the fact that we really only eat red meat every other week or so and frankly pureed meat sounds gross! </p>