Is your baby ready to start trying solid foods? (Ideally, this milestone should be approved by your pediatrician at one of their monthly wellness visits.) In this blog post, I’ll share the list of foods that we served to our own babies, in the order that we introduced it to them. This list was based on the premise of a few simple things that our pediatrician at the time recommended: We tried to keep to a veggie / veggie / fruit order to discourage baby from only liking sweet flavors. We introduced only one food every 3-4 days to manage any potential allergies. We also kept baby Benadryl on hand just in case! (Check with your pediatrician for dosage and before administering any over-the-counter meds to your child.)
Harrington Family Baby Food Menu (in order of introduction)
- Baby oatmeal
- Carrots
- Peas
- Banana
- Sweet potato
- Broccoli
- Apple
- Butternut squash
- Green beans (with blueberry)
- Golden melon
- Cauliflower
- Zucchini (with carrot)
- Pear
- Yellow squash
- Asparagus
- Peaches
- White Potato (with blueberry) – HATED
- Corn + Green Peppers
- Cheerios
- Watermelon
- Green Squash
- Papaya
- Plum
- Beets
- Avocado
- Peach yogurt (Organic Yo Baby)
- Elbow macaroni noodles
- Chicken
- Pear yogurt (Organic Yo Baby)
- Blueberry yogurt (Organic Yo Baby)
- Apple yogurt (Organic Yo Baby)
- Red swiss chard
- Mango
- Papaya
- Rutabaga
- Fish
- Peanut butter (no allergy!!!)
- Red pepper
- Chayote squash
- Salmon
- Multigrain bread (with sunflower seeds)
- Stovetop stuffing
- Gravy
- Cranberry sauce
- Turkey
- Strawberry
- Celeriac
- Yucca
- Cod
- Pepino melon
- Kale
- Batata
- Steak
- Prime rib
- Collard greens
- Pork
- Asian pear
- Walnuts (cut into small pieces)
- Cheddar cheese
- Grape jelly
- Pancakes
- Farro
- Almonds
- Veal
- Gelato
- Grapes (cut into quarters/halves)
We pureed our kids’ food and fed it to them until they mastered what I call the “grab and shove into mouth” move successfully. I think the technical term is “baby-led weaning”. Once our babies started feeding themselves, we cut the foods into very small cubes/pieces and stayed nearby in case of a choking emergency.
Hopefully this food list gives you some unique food items beyond the standard foods! We had fun introducing these foods to the girls and seeing if they liked it, hated it, or were neutral. We were pretty firm about continuing to offer the food item to them for at least a few days, even if they didn’t like the flavor. We of course didn’t force them to eat anything, but would always offer it them along with a food item that we knew they would eat.
Fast forward 6 and 9 years and they are GREAT eaters. I have no way to say if there is a correlation between the way we introduced these foods to them and their love of some very grown-up flavors, but perhaps it wouldn’t hurt to share our method!
Mama Magic 
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