It's always best for baby to start on homemade purees, allowing your baby to get the taste of each individual item and also allowing you to pin point a reaction if any were to show.

Great vegetables and fruit to start:

Pumpkin

Carrot

Sweet Potato

Potato

Cauliflower

Zucchini (peeled and pureed)

Apple

Pear

To puree fruit and vegetables, peel all of the skin off, remove and seeds or core, dice and steam until very soft. Once cooled, place in blender until smooth, ensure there are no chunks by popping it through a sifter. This makes for extremely smooth purees.

Once you know what they like, you can start mixing it up a bit, try combining 1 part Pumpkin, 1 part Carrot and 2 parts Apple! There are so many combinations! Once over 6 months you could even add a tiny sprinkle of cinnamon to the pureed pear!

A great way to start solids is to give bub a few spoons of rice cereal for a few days so they can get used to the texture. On the fourth or fifth day, offer rice cereal and then a pureed fruit, apple or pear is always best to start.

You can then start giving bub, breakfast, lunch and dinner, with vegetables too! Offering one savory and one fruit is ideal as fruit helps to prevent constipation.

Breakfast: Rice Cereal & Pureed Fruit

Lunch:       Pureed Vegetables & Pureed Fruit

Dinner:      Pureed Vegetables & Pureed Fruit

If you find your baby is unsettled of a night time after starting Solids at dinner time, try giving them rice cereal instead, vegetables may sit too heavy in their stomach at first. Baby's can also be unsettled if they have had custards too.

We have lots of food storage options! Like these food storage pods by Dr Brown

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