Give your baby breastmilk or infant formula as drinks, and also offer water to drink with meals. The menu planner is intended as a guide. Every baby is an individual and they develop at different rates. Introduce a greater variety of tastes and textures once your baby has accepted the first simple foods, until they can eventually eat the same as the rest of the family, but in smaller portions and with no added sugar or salt.
Other foods to try: soft cooked meat, pasta shapes, lentils, pieces of chapatti, mashed hard boiled eggs, and whole milk dairy products like yogurt. *Mixed with breastmilk, infant formula or whole cow’s milk.
Morning
First try
Breastmilk or infant formula
Next try
Breastmilk or infant formula
Baby cereal or porridge with fruit and milk
Move on to
Breastmilk or infant formula
Baby cereal or porridge with fruit and milk
Keep increasing textures and quantity
Breastmilk or infant formula
Mashed banana and toast fingers
Mid-morning
Breastmilk or infant formula
Lunch
First try
Baby cereal mixed with milk
Breastmilk or infant formula
Next try
Puree or mash of potato with vegetables (e.g. broccoli, carrots, parsnip, cauliflower)
Breastmilk or infant formula
Move on to
Mashed meat or fish or egg or lentils
Soft cooked potato or pasta and vegetables mashed or as finger food
Breastmilk or infant formula
Keep increasing textures and quantity
Mashed fish (well-cooked, with no bones)
Soft cooked sticks of sweet potato and other vegetables
Soft, peeled fruit mashed or as finger food with fromage frais
Breastmilk or infant formula
Mid-afternoon
Breastmilk or infant formula
Evening
First try
Breastmilk or infant formula
Quantity
3 portions of dairy a day: 100-120ml (small glass) milk, 125g (small pot) of yogurt, or 2-3 tablespoons (15g) of grated hard cheese
MOVE ON TO
Soft, peeled fruit mashed or as finger food (e.g. banana, mango, melon) with yogurt
Breastmilk or infant formula
Keep increasing textures and quantity
Soft, cooked pieces of chicken
Rice
Soft cooked vegetable mashed or as finger food
Breastmilk or infant formula
