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Current Allergen Exposure Guidelines
In 2017, the AAP did pretty much a 180 on their guidelines for infant allergen introductions. According to their newest guidelines, infants (especially high allergy risk infants) should be exposed to peanuts as soon as they are developmentally ready to be exposed to any other foods. They also warn that nuts in their natural form are a choking hazard. That is where Lil Mixins comes in.
Lil Mixins Peanut Powder is a simple, natural way to expose baby to peanuts. Check out the ingredient list – organic peanuts. If a reaction does occur, this makes it easy to see which new food baby is reacting to. Since it is just a jar filled with ground peanuts, a jar should last you the entire time until baby is ready for peanut butter and beyond.
If you want more resources on baby feeding and allergen information, Lil Mixins has a whole page on their website filled with resources for parents.
Lil Mixins and Baby Led Weaning
For parents who are introducing their baby to food with purees, the use of Lil Mixins peanut powder is easy – just stir the powder into food and feed as you normally would. Many parents now are following a feeding protocol referred to as baby led weaning.
In baby led weaning, a parent introduces baby to foods in their natural state. Baby will eat pieces of whatever his or her parents are eating instead of being spoon fed food that has been puréed. As I’ve already mentioned, nuts in their natural state are not safe for baby to consume. So for parents who are following baby led weaning, we need to get a little creative on the best way to incorporate Lil Mixins peanut powder into baby’s diet.
Here are just a few ideas on how to use peanut powder with baby led weaning:
- Sprinkled on top of fruit
- Mixed into pancake or French toast batter
- Sprinkled on granola, cereal, or oatmeal
- Mixed in yogurt or applesauce and given on a pre-loaded spoon for baby to use him/herself
- Mixed into yogurt or applesauce for baby to use as dip
- Baked into muffins
- Rolled up in a tortilla
- Baked into teething biscuits
Now, lets talk about these teething biscuits. My daughter is about a month away from being 6 months old, which is one of the developmental requirements to be ready for baby led weaning. That means her baby friends had to be my ginnea pigs for our teething biscuit recipe. We took our batch to a play date, and they were a hit with the little who ranged in age from 6 months to 4 years. Of course you can’t have a snack in front of a toddler without sharing, so the big kids had to try the “baby cookies” too. I can’t say that baby cookies were preferred over donuts, but no one complained about them either.
Now here’s the super simple, four ingredient recipe for our teething biscuits.
Peanut Banana Teething Biscuit Recipe
- 2 cups oats
- 1 medium to large banana, very ripe/soft
- 3 tablespoons coconut oil, melted
- 2 tablespoons Lil Mixins Peanut Powder
- Preheat oven to 350, and prepare cookie sheet by lightly spraying or lining with parchment paper
- Use blender to grind oats into a fine flour-like powder
- Add banana, Lil Mixins Peanut Powder, and coconut to blender. Mix until a crumbly dough starts to form and there are no large chunks of banana
- Knead dough together with hands as necessary, and form into balls – I made 10 large biscuits with my recipe. Press into desired biscuit shape – generally a long oval is easiest for baby to hold onto.
- Place biscuits on cookie sheet and bake in pre-heated oven for 10 minutes.
- Flip and bake an additional 8-12 minutes, until biscuit tops and edges are gold brown.
- Allow to cool, and enjoy!
