I'm reminded of the movie, My Blueberry Nights, the one directed by Wong Kar Wai, with Norah Jones and Jude Law. What can I say? I'm a romantic movie junkie :/ And my poor hubby has unwillingly sat through too many with me...
I've been waiting to let Chubbs try blueberries because it is a well-known "superfood", high in anti-oxidants. So much so that they are touted to be able to potentially fend off cancers, infections and inflammations of all sorts! I haven't seen any organic ones around until recently. I think the berries are in season! Fuzzy and I bought a punnet from Fairprice Finest, for Chubbs to have a taste.
I ground a handful of raw blueberries up, using the Munchkin baby food maker, and mixed the purple mush into his brown rice cereal, flax meal and breastmilk. I left the skins (I think this is the most nutritious part) and seeds in too. I was a little worried he won't take it because the skins made the mixture quite chunky, but he surprised me and slurped his breakfast up. Yay!
I believe in eating the colours of the rainbow; but there are few purple/blue foods out there. So it's great that Chubbs likes blueberries. And they are great with other fruits like apples, pears, bananas etc. More power to Chubbs!
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