What do you mix cereals with?

Just curious what everyone mixes rice cereal and oatmeal with? EBM? Formula? Water? I have always mixed it with EBM or formula; however, I am considering switching to water. Are there any major benefits to one or another?

 

I have always mixed it with a fruit because my kids won't eat it plain!

 

Ditto what Becky said. We always use a fruit.

 

We make it with formula. It is only about 1 1/2 scoops of formula split between the 2 of them so I am sure just water would be fine.

 

I always mixed it with EBM! They loved it!

 

EBM and prunes or prune juice

Tracy

 

For those of you who use fruit . . . you don't use any other liquid beside the fruit itself? Do you warm it? I may give it a try this morning.

 

Well I add cereal to the fruit not fruit to the cereal if that makes sense. After they had sweet potatoes, I added some cereal to thicken it up a little bit. But if its plain cereal, they get EBM.

 

i use formula... We haven't introduced anything except rice cereal once, so the formula helps them as it is a familiar taste..

 

when they were younger i used formula or water (heated). now i use warm whole milk, my ped said that i could start them on milk so i figured it was a good way to introduce it. i always mix in some kind of fruit with the milk, cereal mixture. if i am low on fruit sometimes i just squeeze an orange into it. they love that!

 

QUOTE(becky5 @ Apr 12 2007, 06:18 AM) [snapback]216143[/snapback]
I have always mixed it with a fruit because my kids won't eat it plain!


Same here - I had to make it a little sweeter to get them to take it.

 

We use EBM. It counts towards their daily intake and they aren't big bottle eaters so cereal is a good way for me to get those EBM calories in them. If they are getting a veggie at that meal (we always do cereal and a thing of food) then sometimes I will add a little fruit to the cereal.

 

We only use formula in their oatmeal and/or rice cereal. My kids have never liked anything on it other than that. They love fruit but not mixed in their oatmeal. They don't like it with water either. I have tried to make it with water, and they can tell the difference. They have been getting yogurt lately and it comes with fruit and they love it! go figure!!

 

Diluted apple juice is what we used with DS and what we will use again since rice cereal is so bad to constipate.

 

I always mixed it with formula and then added fruit to smooth out the texture.

 

QUOTE(Stephanie M @ Apr 12 2007, 08:34 AM) [snapback]216166[/snapback]
For those of you who use fruit . . . you don't use any other liquid beside the fruit itself? Do you warm it?


Nope, I don't add any kind of liquid to the fruit, just the cereal. And they eat it as is, not warmed