baby food for 6m old

One of the first things I gave my baby after the intital baby rice, was Butter Nut Squash, and Sweet Potatoe, you can either mash it all up or just cut it into lumps, she still loves it now.

Not a hundred percent sure, but I think its cow and gate or is Heinz anyway, if you go onto any of their websites there is a section on baby receipes, I got some great ones.

Hope this helps.

the 7 months is just a guideline.

have a look at the 7mth recipes in the Annabel Karmel book, to give you an idea of foods to make. just puree them, leaving some lumps in.

dont introduce too many new foods in one go, incase of any reactions.

my 10mth old DD still hasnt got any teeth :rolleyes:

i don't feed my baby anything different than we eat, and it has actually made us eat that bit healthier because we don't add salt or suger. If one day i am making a roast dinner he has meat, carrots, peas, broccoli, stuffing and INFANT gravey. All i do is wizz it through a blender and leave a few lumps in. Even stuff like pasta is fine, just make sure its glutin free, or get baby pasta.
There is no point wasting time making seperate food when family food is just fine (lay of the curries though, unless dad is doing nappy.) My 5 month old is thriving of our food, in fact he started crawling last night (sorry can't stop telling people)

Our daughter had baby eczema so I was really cautious about what we introduced and when, however she had NO reaction to any of it, ate everything in sight and coughed up stuff now and then when it was too lumpy, but never choked.

We started with the same stuff we'd puree but just mashing it a bit lumpier each time:
sweet potato
steamed pear
potato
carrots
broccoli
cauliflower
parsnip
banana
butternut squash
advocado - forget jars - this is food on the run, in a natural bowl!

For finger food, I found steamed carrot fingers and fingers of banana good, then moved to little "trees" of mushy broccoli and cauliflower which she absolutely loved.

Then at 7-8 months, fingers of very lightly toasted wholemeal bread, some baby pasta, steamed chicken.

As she got better at pincer grip and chewing: peas, grapes cut in quarters (NEVER WHOLE - BIG CHOKING HAZARD), grated cheese lightly pressed into little mounds easy for her to pick up.

The best thing I ever bought was a Russell Hobbs (?) 3-tiered steamer that Argos had on half-price sale for 19.99. It made cooking for her SO much easier - put it all on, come back 20 mins later and you had enough for the next couple of meals. Plus I found I could easily control just how mushy and disintergrated all the veg got so I could either mash it, chop it into easily chewed chunks, or leave it as long fingers to be bitten.

ooh, if u give weetabix we found it best to soak overnight in milk & was right consistency, if u add it b4 giving it looks fine but gets stodgier after a few minutes so u have to add more milk. probably different if baby likes warm food but my son would only eat cold stuff, didnt like his milk warm either. he is now a healthy 3 year old who is big (not fat!) for his age so don't think it harmed him! he would live on breakfast cereals & fruit if we let him though!