sponsored by squarespace this is what a
Japanese baby eats and why
[Music]
so many of you who follow the channel
know that nine months ago I had a baby boy
and just recently or should I say in
the last several months
he started eating baby food before we
started feeding I had
no idea what babies ate so I naturally
asked my family friends especially in
the U.S.
some of them really didn't know while
others guessed apple sauce and
others told me rice cereal
which I took
on board but
as soon as we started feeding our baby I
soon realized that what Japanese babies
eat here in Japan
is completely different or at least what
I was told so I thought it was
interesting enough to share all of this
with you
but before I do that if you guys want to
see what I'm doing on the daily check
out my instagram account if you want to
help support the channel
check out the hold my miso merch and if
you have any questions about Japan or
your Japan travels
check out the discord community that
said in order for me to get into a deep
dive with all of this
let me bring in one more piece to this
puzzle Michael you want to help me
sure okay so first of all um let's just
quickly talk about when you first
started eating basically he started
eating
kind of like rice yeah well rice
porridge well
rice with a lot of water a lot of water
then we introduced him to vegetables
and fruits a little bit and then a
little bit of fish
so one thing to point out is that the
food that we're serving here is just
readily available in Japan
that's what makes up a majority of like
the menu but I'm sure that whatever
country you're from it's a lot different
and because it's so different we're
actually interested
to hear what you also are feeding your
babies so let us know in the comments
let us know what country
you're coming from I hear in Europe
they feed cheese really yeah
I thought it was really interesting
because we don't eat cheese until like
later
interesting like early on in like stage
two first of all this
is michael preparing her meal
First of all, This is Maiko preparing her meal.
Twice a week we meal prep and free
solids into ice cube trays as the food
has to be eaten within 48 to 72 hours.
Each time it takes about one and a half
to two hours to prepare the trays.
How many hours does it take you to
prepare each meal? Each meal like 10
minutes 15 minutes
because i do this.
We also remove all the seeds in the veggies
like okra and tomatoes it's kind of a
pain but Maiko does it anyway
In stage one we use a hand blender to
puree all the foods but now in stage two
we generally chop up the food with a
knife. This particular three to four day
meal prep includes shirasu a tiny white
fish,
broccoli, cabbage, salmon, chicken, okuda
and eggplant.
I cook different vegetables every time.
Yeah. So wolfie would eat different
nutrition
and also i've ordered from pal system
They have like the stuff for baby food
but which just doesn't have a preservatives
like natural stuff so i also use that so
he probably at least eat like 10
different vegetables in a week.
Okay. So, 10 different vegetables a week
but how many
per meal? Per meal, one two three four to
five
different vitamins, vegetables and fruit
One to two
carbs and one to two proteins. That's
pretty crazy because
there's just so many different
ingredients in one meal like I don't
even think
I eat that much in my
my food like I think in a day I don't
think i eat that much unless you
count like the different karage
I don't think I eat that much either but
like since wolfy doesn't really like
drinking breast milk after before after
minushuku. So, I try to you know like
stuff all the nutrition in there with
food.
There is so much like you can see just
how colorful
like these trays are there's just a
stack
it's kind of overwhelmed on our freezer
[Laughter]
we have all of this like food that
Maiko makes for him
but what's really nice um she makes all
the food but sometimes I help prepare
like
sometimes and i'll it'll be easy like
just to take
all of the no I make pre-made package
so you can just warm it up well that's
what i meant it's nice to be able to
take
all the food or all the like little ice
cube trays and I put them in a plastic
bag and then when your husband
wakes up in the morning you can just
take all of that in you have no idea
like I have all the combinations
different combinations so like it's not
eating like carrots every single meal.
There are things that you have to like
cook it separately yeah like warm it up
separately because the
speed of warming up is different to make
it easy for him
I just put the same speed on the same
bag before we show you the full week's
menu I want to give a quick shout out to
our sponsor for this video squarespace
if you don't already know squarespace is
the number one way to
build your online presence in fact we
use it for our website tokyozebra.com
here are just some of the reasons why we
love using squarespace so much
whether you're starting your passion
project or building a business
squarespace has all the tools to get it
done while also looking ultra sleek and
professional at the same time they
support numerous portfolios and gallery
designs which you can customize and even
password protect so the right people see
your work
use its fully integrated blogging tools
and commenting features such as threaded
comments replies and likes to help
engage your community
and my favorite built-in analytics to
see how your visits
unique visitors and page views trend
over time so go to squarespace.com for
your free trial and when you're ready to
launch go to squarespace.com/
paulo from tokyo and get 10 off your
first website or domain
that all said let me show you the food
This is what Wolfy typically eats in a
week during stage two.
Let me break it down.
Day one, breakfast. Rice boarded with
three toppings corn carrots and
hamatsuna leafy greens banana with
kinako a roasted soybean flour on top
spinach tofu and chicken with a white
cream sauce. For dinner his favorite
pumpkin porridge
salmon with kabu radish and eggplant
broccoli and cauliflower
and strawberries for him to practice
eating with his hands. Day two, breakfast.
bread poured with carrots corn spinach
cream salmon and asparagus and this day
he's trying yokota for the first time
with a chinese cabbage plus some yogurts
with strawberries for dinner a dashi
flavored rice porridge with natto
fermented bean
fava beans with corn yogurt and that
good old applesauce with kinako and to
practice eating on his own
pumpkin yam balls. Are you ready?
Day three, breakfast. somen noodles with
alkura and chicken a little bit of
pumpkin
strawberries and bananas to practice
eating and miso soup with the chinese
cabbage and carrots
Good job!
Oh my god. For dinner asparagus rice
porridge with cabbage
spinach and applesauce then salmon stew
with chinese cabbage carrots and white
sauce. Finally, broccoli has a finger food
Day four, breakfast. Banana oatmeal with
apples spinach corn with chicken and egg
omelette with cabbage and cauliflower
and oranges for his finger food. For
dinner, salmon noodles again
but with chicken tomato and eggplant on
top. Also, broccoli cabbage and carrots
with eggs. Oh, and strawberries for
dessert.
Day five, breakfast. Kabu rice porridge
with a carrot puree
broccoli with salmon melon for him to
practice and okura tofu miso soup.
For dinner, rice porridge with natto
komatsuna leafy greens and cabbage
tofu with pumpkin and yogurt with strawberries.
[Music]
Day six breakfast. Pumpkin porridge with
a spinach puree
carrot yogurt with applesauce broccoli
and cauliflower omelette with a tomato
puree.
For dinner, seaweed rice porridge for
carbs a pumpkin soup with cauliflower
and komatsuna for protein shirazu fish
with eggplant tomato sauce with soy
beans and yams on the side finally
broccoli has a finger food
Day seven breakfast. We need to flake
dashi flavored rice porridge with
asparagus hawkside with shirazu and tofu
corn paprika and komatsuna five kinds of
veggies and two proteins
and finally for dinner corn rice
porridge broccoli with eggs carrots, pumpkin puree
pumpkin puree daikon radish for him to
practice eating by hand and yogurt with
applesauce
damn he eats better than me here are
some of the more interesting
types of foods that we feed him so like
i fed him the fresh nutto
and grind it and he hated it but we
bought this powder
the heat is okay to eat now we also feed
tofu
that's like one of the most popular
protein that we use here and also
okinako soybean powder just can't wait
to feed them the fried chicken
oh and we have baby get used to japanese
flavor
we give him like katsuo dashi and
kombudashi
it's a different type of dashi that's
about it you know you have like the
plates and everything just looks so nice
and clean and you know sometimes they
have like a little droplets of different
flavors
and i'm like wow that looks pretty good
for baby food
i mean i don't have to do that but at
least for him to make the
eating fun it's pretty different from
what I remember growing up like I don't
think my parents ever used like frozen
ice cube trays they would probably just
give me like a banana or like whatever
like scraps
or something on the table like I don't
think I was given
like gerber baby food but like those
little jars of baby food
i think that was really really popular
when I was growing up
no like like this of course because i
have like
the scorchers they're like no they were
little glass jars oh
there's those in japan too it's just so
popular so popular yeah like
instant so that's what i remember
growing up what did you remember growing
up
i don't remember anything i know you
don't want me a month
i know but you can ask your mom right i
don't think my mom remembers
but like back then there's no internet
yeah i mean i'm sure there's some kind
of internet but
what would that be I don't know
microsoft newspaper, I don't know. But like
magazines i'm sure my mom took like
classes
or you know like somebody taught it, back in the day I think
that's the only way to or like you'll be
reading a book
but it still blows me away to see all
the preparation
that goes into making japanese baby food
and how it just comes in these little
nice ice cubes it's it's pretty cool
oh you know like when I just started
senpai moms are saying like
oh you can't be too stressed out about
like making everything from scratch and
like spending so much time
you're busy doing other stuff i was like
okay i'm going to be lazy in a good way
right yeah i'm going to use like urawaza or
something and like you know make it
faster like freezing food
that I order but like i'm doing what I
wasn't going to do
yeah but like I realize also that I'm
doing this because
so wolfie will taste different things
for the natural actual food
yeah apparently that's important to grow
his
taste buds yeah it's like a food
education right
oh and one interesting thing too is he's
starting to do
a japanese thing which is the ah
i think yeah he learned because i've
been doing good
song for a long time all right so that
concludes our video if you liked it help
us out and hit that like button if you
guys
kind of want to share what you feed your
babies in your country
let us know in the comments and if you
want to see more videos like this or
anything related to japan hit that
subscribe button and the bell button and
we'll catch you guys
in the next one
[Music]