Vij’s Chef and Co-Owner Meeru Dhalwala has created a range of hearty and truly nourishing recipes that cater to babies taste buds and their specific nutritional needs. My Bambiri baby foods reflect her 27+ years of cooking professionally and for her (now adult) daughters. The produce is sourced by farmer Naty King of Hazelmere Organics from small, B.C. farms. The ingredients are a collection of food wisdoms from grandmothers and mothers around the world.
Babies need wholesome, textured foods that require them to chew—grains, vegetables, fruits, seeds, and fats. At five months they begin to see colours, red being the first. At six months they discover chewing and their lifelong relationship with eating begins! Meeru’s initial four recipes can be served alone or alongside cheese, bread, beans, eggs, fruits, etc. Let your baby make their own culinary building blocks! Baby Nanaki Vij mixed her lentils-Basmati rice with cheddar cheese chunks (soaked in water from her sippy cup!) and mixed with mango or bananas.Our flavours are:
- Blueberry-Sunflower Seed-Sour Cream
- Apple-Teff (an ancient grain)
- Lentils-Turmeric Basmati Rice
- Beets-Lentils-Murasaki Sweet Potatoes
Visit www.mybambiri.com to purchase online. You can also purchase packs of any four baby foods with your Vij’s take-out by adding them to your online order via the Vij’s ordering service.
Finally, if there is one group of humans that deserves the best that food can offer, it’s our babies – no matter the financial circumstances of their families. Therefore, My Bambiri pricing is income-based with an honor system asking parents to consider their unique financial circumstances. If you can pay more, you help out a parent that needs to pay less.
All profits above the net cost will go towards baby foods being donated to the Food Stash Foundation for distribution to food insecure families.
The name “Bambiri” comes from the nickname given to Meeru by her parents when she learned how to crawl. It means “spinning top” in their ancestral Punjabi language, and is a metaphor for a social and happy baby. They called her “Bambiri” until the days they passed away, in 2017 and 2019 respectively.
