Discover our tasty, easy and healthy vegetable snacks with peanuts and nuts for your Mini
Our recipes are specially designed, in collaboration with Happje , to give allergens to your baby in an easy and healthy way. Learn how to give your baby a tasty and nutritious start with peanut, egg and nuts.
When can my baby start with vegetable purees?
From 4 months you can start with practice bites. To keep the difference with breast or bottle feeding small, you can start with soft flavors.
My baby doesn't like the snack! What now?
It is normal for your baby to get used to new flavors. That is why it is important to introduce your baby to a few flavors first. So, try one type at a time.
Start with vegetables first, then with fruit. It is not strange if your baby does not like the taste right away. It is important to repeat tastes. Research shows that a baby sometimes has to taste the taste 15 times before he can recognize and like a taste.
Which vegetables are suitable for your baby?
Soft and suitable vegetables to give to your baby include cauliflower, peas, broccoli, carrots or pumpkin.
Autumn Vegetable Snack
Discover how to give your baby a healthy and tasty start with pumpkin by following our simple and nutritious recipes.
Pumpkin snack (from 4 months)
What do you need?
- 100 g pumpkin
- 1 scoop of Peanut Follow-up Kit
- Hand blender or blender
- 1 tablespoon olive oil (optional)
What should you do?
- Peel the pumpkin and cut it into small cubes.
- Place the pumpkin cubes in a pan with a little water. Cook the pumpkin on medium heat for about 10 minutes, until the pumpkin is soft.
- When the pumpkin is cooked, drain the water and puree the pumpkin until smooth.
- Add a scoop of Peanut Follow-up Kit Vini Mini to the pumpkin puree and stir well.
- Add a dash of olive oil if desired.
Steaming or boiling for your baby?
- Steaming is the best way to prepare a pumpkin snack for your Mini, because it retains most vitamins and minerals and preserves the taste best! Steam the pumpkin for the right time. Pumpkin is usually done in about 10 minutes.
Is pumpkin healthy for your baby?
Pumpkin is super healthy for your baby, because:
- Pumpkin is low in calories and high in fiber, which is important for proper bowel function.
- It is packed with beta-carotene, which is good for your baby's eyes and skin.
- In addition, pumpkin contains vitamin C, E, iron and calcium.
Download the recipe here
Homemade vegetable snack with peanuts or nuts
Below you can read how to make a snack with broccoli, but subscribe to our newsletter or the Happje app for more inspiration.
Broccoli practice snack (from 4 months)
What do you need?
- 50 grams of broccoli
- 1 scoop of Vini Mini Follow-up Kit or last bag of Vini Mini Starter Kit
- Hand blender or blender
What should you do?
- Cut the broccoli into florets
- Cut the broccoli stem into cubes (this has a lot of flavor and contains many vitamins)
- Boil or steam (see tip!) the broccoli until the broccoli is soft
- Puree finely with a hand blender or in a food processor
- Add 2 teaspoons of olive oil if desired
- Then add the sachet or scoop of Vini Mini flour to 1 portion of the practice snack.
- Is the snack still a bit too dry? Then add some cooking liquid, it contains many vitamins!
Steaming or boiling for your baby?
- Steaming is the best way to prepare your Mini's snack, because it retains most vitamins & minerals AND because it preserves the taste best! Steam the vegetables for the right amount of time. The cooking time can vary per type of vegetable. For example, broccoli is cooked in about 5 minutes.
Is broccoli healthy for your baby?
Broccoli is super healthy for your baby, because:
- It contains a lot of fiber
- Has an anti-inflammatory effect
- Is good for resistance and bones
- is rich in Vitamin A, zinc and phosphorus
Peanuts and nuts are fed according to the Rapley or Kleintjes method
If you would like to give peanuts or nuts according to the Rapley or Kleintjes method, that is also possible. In this case, we recommend to puree a small amount of broccoli and add the Vini Mini peanut or nut powder to it. Then you can sprinkle the Vini Mini powder over the florets and give it that way. This is only possible from 6 months.
