Abstract: A method for preparing an infant food consumable by hand comprises grinding at least one frozen plant base to form grains with a grain size of less than one millimeter, mixing the ground at least one frozen plant base with a natural texturizing agent in a proportion between 2% and 30% by weight based on the final mass of the mixture, and oil and/or at least one aromatic compound in a proportion between 2% and 20% by weight based on the final mass of the mixture, dosing the mixture to prepare individual portions, cooking the individual portions thus prepared in moist heat, freezing the cooked individual portions, and packaging the frozen cooked individual portions.

Abstract: A method for preparing meat-based foodstuffs, comprises the steps of: step 1: a first vacuum cooking heat treatment in a packaging in a moisture saturated atmosphere, is applied to foodstuffs having a meat content equal to or greater than 95%, and without the addition of salt; step 1.1: the foodstuffs having undergone the first vacuum cooking heat treatment are broken down to form elements smaller than two millimeters in the pasty state; step 2: the foodstuffs in the pasty state are repackaged in different receptacles of a container, individually packaged in a partial or total vacuum, in order to undergo a second pasteurization heat treatment in a moisture saturated atmosphere; step 3: the foodstuffs having undergone the second pasteurization heat treatment in individual portions, are rapidly cooled and frozen to ?18° C. in the individual receptacles of the container.