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Old 09-18-2007, 03:32 AM
Lakshmi Lakshmi is offline
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Organic vegan iron fortified cereals? (+parents in Europe?+vitamins and Floradix)

Hi,
I just can't seem to find organic enriched cereals suitable for my 11months old.
I am in Europe but could be ready to order online from overseas if it was an option. I know there is ready break in England but it's not organic. Anyone knows if it's bad pesticide wise? I thought about enriching them with Floradix but the taste seems aweful and strong, and it has to be lower in iron than fortified baby cereals?(it's one teaspoon per day for a one yo they say). Do you have tips on hiding the taste? Like a dish it goes well in?
I'd like tips too on where to find fluoride (I breastfeed still but my water doesn't contain fluoride, I don't have enriched salt and all babies are supplemented here) and b12 drops. I'm especially concerned about the fluoride.
Can some European vegan parents give me tips as where to find vegan good baby products? I saw there was a Tanja from Germany, I'm actually wondering if we don't know each others; ever been to the human race?
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Old 09-26-2007, 09:13 AM
celtic-womble celtic-womble is offline
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I'm not in Europe but I've visited family in the UK a few times since DS was born. I know I found an organic baby oatmeal at Tesco but I don't remember the brand. As he got older he ate the kids oatmeal but that was Tesco brand so you wouldn't be able to find it anywhere else and I'm not sure it was vegan either, it was my sisters and he stole it

I give DS vitamins now (he just turned 2), Yummi Bears. I don't know if they're available in Europe though. He eats lots of nutritional yeast for B12 but again I've never been able to find that in the UK.

One good range to look out for is Organix. They're for babies and toddlers and several of the products are vegan. At 11 months your little guy could eat the gingerbread cookies and the carrot sticks; they're like cheese puffs only with carrot instead of cheese. My little guy could inhale a packet of those in one sitting at that age. They also have yummy cereal bars, raspberry and apple, but 11 months is a bit young for those. Again I found them at Tesco, don't know where else they'd be available.
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Old 09-26-2007, 12:24 PM
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I seem to remember reading somewhere that the reason it's so hard to find organic enriched food in europe is to do with eu labelling laws i.e. the enrichments may not be organic.

DD is almost 11 months, mostly breastfed so it's not a big issue for us yet, but it is something I'm starting to look into as she nears the one year mark!
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