Feeding your baby can be such a fun and exciting time and there is so much I enjoy about it. From sharing our meals to watching her faces while she tries new things, I absolutely love meal time with Lily.
But I know it can also be a source of stress for a lot of moms. Between picky eaters to not knowing what to make them, feeding babies definitely comes with it’s own challenges.
We started solids at 5 months and you can read all about that journey in this post. We have since come a long way from pureed sweet potatoes so today I want to share what we typically feed Lily in a day.
This is just an example but hopefully it will help give you an idea of some meals or snacks for your babe.
A few things to note:
- she has no allergies
- we will give her anything except honey
- everything is cut roughly the size of a chickpea
- majority of her food is a cut up variation of what we eat. We don’t cook separately for her with no sauce, salt, etc. because we don’t cook with a ton of it anyway
- the only thing we spoon feed her is soup and her yogurt but otherwise she eats everything with her hands
Breakfast
- Skyr or Greek yogurt with mashed banana and peanut butter
- Oatmeal with cut up blueberries and almond butter
- Scrambled eggs (she has eaten them and they are a good easy breakfast but she doesn’t like them)
- Smoothie (I will share my smoothie with her if there is no protein powder in it)
Lunch/Dinner
- Meatballs (beef, turkey or chicken)
- Chicken fingers
- Pasta with parmesan cheese or tomato sauce
- Annie’s mac and cheese
- Steamed broccoli
- Chicken soup – we let her self-feed the soft carrots and boiled chicken on her tray
- Beef and barley soup
- Any veggie soup – easiest way to get her to eat green veggies right now
- Boiled peas
Snacks
- Fruit/veggie pouches
- rice puffs
- cheese
- berries
- hummus
- Everything I eat. She will literally want anything I eat and a lot of time I can’t eat in front of her unless I want to share half my meal.
Let me know if you have any Q’s or would be interested in a baby food EBook with some recipes!
xoxo