6 Month Old Baby Food Chart/Meal Plan
You can prepare a meal plan or a chart for your baby’s food routine and follow it as much as possible to incorporate a variety of healthy options. You can use the chart below to design your own 6 month baby food schedule according to your baby’s food preference:
Day of the week |
Breakfast |
Lunch |
Dinner |
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Monday |
Breast milk/formula milk | Apple puree | Nap time | Vegetable soup | Breast milk/formula milk | Rice porridge | Breast milk/formula milk before nap time |
Tuesday |
Carrot puree | Any fruit puree | cereal gruel | ||||
Wednesday |
Rice porridge | Sweet potato puree | fruit puree | ||||
Thursday |
Ragi porridge | Mashed banana | stewed apple | ||||
Friday |
Stewed apple with cinnamon | dal water | suji kheer |
Food Recipes for 6 Months Old Baby
Here are some interesting baby food recipes for 6 months old that are a blend of different tastes and flavours for your baby to try and explore.
1. Apple Stew with Cinnamon
Ingredients:
- Apple
- Water
- Cinnamon powder
How to prepare:
- Cook the peeled and diced apple slices, in boiling water.
- Alternatively, you can also cook the apple for two to three whistles in a pressure cooker.
- Take the steamed apples and mash it in a blender or a mixer jar. You can also forcefully sieve it through a filter with slightly bigger holes.
- To this apple stew, add a pinch or less of cinnamon powder and mix well.
2. Mango Puree
Ingredients:
- Mango
How to prepare:
- Peel and cut out the pulp of the mango
- Blend the pulp into a coarse paste in a mixer jar or a blender or sieve it forcefully through a filter.
- The fruit has a natural sweetness to it, and it can serve as such without any additional flavouring agent.
3. Oatmeal
Ingredients:
- Oats powdered
- Water
- Breastmilk or formula milk
- Banana
How to prepare:
- In a pan, boil the 2 cups of water
- Once the water reaches boiling, add a cup of powdered oats slowly to the water and stir continuously without lumps
- Once the oats are cooked well, add 2 tablespoons of milk.
- You can add banana paste to give flavour to the dish.
4. Sweet Pumpkin Puree
Ingredients:
- Sweet pumpkin
- Water
How to prepare:
- Deseed a small pumpkin and peel off the skin. Dice it into small cubes.
- Boil water (2 cups) after which you can add the pumpkin. Cover the lid to cook it well for a few minutes.
- Mash or blend the cooked pumpkin to a fine paste and feed. The natural sweetness of the vegetable gives a good taste to the dish.
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