First Foods for Infant

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This PDF shows safe foods by age range.

My son loved yellow squash and zuchinni, sauteed, then blended. If too watery, I'd add some organic rice cereal.

Pumpkin - super yummy. Bake it, portion it out into snack bags and put it in the freezer

Avocado is an excellent one- full of nutrition and healthy fats. Just cut one in half and spoon it out for her, or cut it in chunks and let her feed herself. Just be careful with what she's wearing when she eats it, because it stains like crazy.

I just feed my 7 month old whatever we are eating, I just put some in the food processor and blitz it until it is smooth enough for him to eat. He won't eat commercial purees either and I can't blame him. This way he gets much more flavor and texture in his food, and he eats everything, last night he had black bean and chorizo chili and mashed avocado. He also only has 2 teeth, but he can still "chew" a lot of food, you will probably be surprised at what your daughter can handle food-wise.

Mashed up avocado is great, as is baked sweet potato, baked apple, and yogurt. I recommend a book called 'Super Baby Food'.

When my daughter was 6months old, we started jarred baby food & pureed veggies. It lasted about a week before she was refusing purees and staring intently at whatever was on our plates! We started right then, cutting up our foods really small (pea-sized), steaming it a little extra to make sure it was soft & that was it! We started just steaming the foods that she had been eating pureed, to get her used to the textures - steamed & cut up sweet potatoe, squash, zucchini, green beans, peas, ripe pears, peaches, squished blue berries. Anything that she's confirmed not allergic to, we started not pureeing, just giving it to her chopped up & soft.
She's now 10 months & eats cheerios & scrambled egg, or pancakes, yogurt, french toast for breakfast, fruits, noodles, chicken for lunch, steamed veggies & crackers for snacks, and pasta, meat, veggies for dinner. We went out to eat last night & she had spaghetti & meatballs, sauteed eggplant, zucchini & tomatoes, and milk when we got home. Loved it! Just about anything we eat, she gets too, even spicy Indian and Thai food! Especially with older siblings, she just might be excited to mimic her older siblings & join in the dinner-time fun.

My daughter liked avocados, sweet potatoes, carrots, bananas, soft peaches, etc. Not mashed, but cooked until really soft and then I just "nick" peices out with my fork or spoon.

At that age, I would feed her anything the doc said was okay and that was soft enough that I could get smaller than pea size pieces off that she could gum.

Oh, and at that age, food isn't about nutritional needs - it's about experimenting with new tastes and textures. She shouldn't be getting the bulk of her calories from "real" food right now.

L. S. basically did the same thing that Baby Led Weaning advises. Real food - whatever you're eating, cut into pieces they can pick and and gum themselves. BLW actually advises cutting most foods into "stick" form that they can hold and gnaw on. I did a blend - depending on the food, I made it pea-sized or stick (about the size of a finger). If I thought she would be able to get a big chunk off a stick and possibly choke - it was pea.

My daughter also was eating anything and everything we put in front of her up until recently (daycare? laziness on my part? taste buds changing? who knows, but I'm sad). She's always been such an incredible eater - we always got comments on it.