Heinz Farley's Pure Baby Rice

Heinz baby rice is a mixture of Pure Baby Rice with vitamins and minerals. The rice is in a powdered format in a non-resealable foil bag inside cardboard packaging. I used this product when starting to wean my son and initially mixed it with expressed breast milk or fomula. The instructions gave a rough guideline as to the proportions to use initially, although this made the rice barely thicker than his usual milk and very difficult to spoon. As we progressed with his weaning, I made the rice thicker. I found it difficult to mix as the fine powder is prone to clumping and formed lumps, which I had to fish out before giving it to my son. You also have to ...  Read the complete review

I first started giving Heinz baby rice to my son when he was seventeen weeks old (the earliest recommended age to start weaning) and it was the first food that he had ever tried. You mix the baby rice with your baby's normal milk, whether it be breast milk or formula milk. I first gave him only a few teaspoons full and he seemed to like it, it is quite bland and does not taste of much, however, this is ideal as a first weaning food. After a week of giving him a few teaspoons, I started to mix it with other food, for example, banana or apple and it was definately useful to introduce him to other foods. I have now bought a book on baby purees and some days I still use ...  Read the complete review