Solid Food Recipes from 5 to 7 months

You should give your baby one new food at a time and wait 3 days before you introduce a new one. Meanwhile watch for any allergic reactions like diarrhea, rash or vomiting. If any of these occurs contact your pediatrician. Mainly you should start with leek, potato, sweet potato, green beans, green peas, eggplant, zucchini, onion and parsley; wait till your baby is 6 months old to start with carrots and spinach.
Steam, boil or bake then purée using a grinding machine. You can preserve them in a glass container for 2 days in the fridge and 1 month in the freezer.

Two weeks after you have introduced solids , start mixing vegetables to give him a highest rate of nutrients in a meal; I would like to give you some suggestions.

These recipes will make about 2 portions:

1. 1 sweet potato, 2 carrots and a handful of green peas.
2. 200g chopped boiled spinach, 2 carrots and 1 pearl onion.
3. 4 carrots, a handful of green beans and a slice of potato.
4. 2 zucchinis and 2 small eggplants.
5. 1 sweet potato, 1 zucchini and 2 carrots.
6. 2 cups green beans, 2 carrots and 1 zucchini.

You can mix any of the allowed vegetables to obtain a perfect healthy meal.

Now 3 weeks after mixing, you can start introducing meat and poultry.
1st week: use 30 g per portion of lean meat while cooking for your baby and discard them before grinding the meal.
2nd week: use 30 g per portion of skinless, boneless, chicken breast and discard them before grinding the prepared meal.
3rd week: You can now start grinding meat and poultry with the vegetables. Serve your baby meat for 2 days and poultry for 2 days.

Recipe suggestions:

1. 200g chopped boiled spinach, a handful of green peas, 2 carrots, 30 g lean meat,1 pearl onion and one small garlic clove (suitable for a 7 months year old baby).
2. 30 g lean meat, 1 small bouquet of parsley, 1 carrot, 1 medium sweet potato and a handful of green peas.
3. 30 g lean meat, 5 carrots, a handful of green peas and 2 zucchinis.
4. 30 g lean meat, 4 zucchinis,  1 pearl onion, 1 small garlic cloves,1 medium carrot.
5. 30 g chicken, 1 bouquet parsley, 4 cups green beans and  1 slice of potato.
6. 30 g chicken, 2 small long eggplants, a handful of green peas and 2 zucchinis.
7. 30 g chicken, 400 g boiled spinach, 1 small garlic clove and 1 sweet potato.

This is a small briefing presented from a mother to you, to help you and encourage you to make your own homemade baby food so you can offer the best for your baby.

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My pediatrician informed me during the latest visit, that they held a conference about solid food and they came out with new recommendations that are mainly related to food allergies and acid reflux:

1. Solid food should be started at 5 months.
2. Start with a single vegetable purée such as leek, potato, sweet potato, green beans, green peas, eggplant, zucchini, onion, parsley.
3. Carrots and spinach should be started at 6 months.
4. Cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli and turnip should not be given until the 8th month.
5. Tomatoes and celery should not be given before the baby turns 1 year old.
6. Dried items such as lentils and chickpeas: 18 or 24 months 
7. 120ml is a fair quantity to serve for your baby.
8. Start out with 60 ml.
9. Aromatics herbs are allowed except dried mint.
10. Give cooked pears and apples at 5 months.
11. Ten days after giving cooked fruits, start giving raw fruits.
12. Don't serve any bananas before the 8th month.
13. Don't give them strawberry, kiwi, exotic fruits, cherries, watermelon, melon and grapes.

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