When you give your 1 year old food from the jar, do you heat it up or serve at room temp?
Hi K.,
For my granddaughter, we serve the baby food at room temp. If it was in the fridge due to half a jar getting served earlier feeding, we heat it up in the microwave just to take the chill out.
Room temp is fine and no risk of burning!
warm it up a bit. Would you like your food room temp or cold?
There is no benefit to you or you baby from heating up the food, just more work! I serve mine room temperature or colder.
I take it out of jar and put it in a microwavable dish for about 13 seconds... My daughter 8 month old likes things nice and warm.. As well as my 2 and half year old.
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Good Luck
Barb G.
That all depends on the child. I have three kids. My oldest child didn't like baby food at all. I had to process the food freshly. My first daughter ate the food from the jar but it had to be steamy hot for her to eat it. My youngest daughter eats it now but she don't like it heated up at all. So like I said it depends on the child altogether. Good Luck!!!
We didnt ever heat it up , however certain food my little girl like better cold- (especially when teething)- the "dinner" foods, such as green beans, veges, carrots etc we left room temp but the fruits and if you do the "desserts" we kept in the fridgeg- my little one was very picky though so we tried different things :) just an idea.
By a year we were mostly off of jar food, but even now with my 3-year-old and 17-month-old, unless it is a hot food for everyone, it is served at whatever temperature we are eating it at (cooled off of course if it is too hot). I don't think I ever really warmed anything up unless I was using refrigerated breast milk in the baby cereal, and then I just warmed it to skin temperature. Room temperature should be fine.
no need to heat it up
My daughter is 11 mo. old...I put the jar right in the microwave for 10-12 seconds...she seems to like it better when it's warm. Fruits she'll eat at room temp, but any veggies, blended meat etc, she likes warm. There is no benefit, just a preference thing.
